List of 630 Acquired Publishing Companies

Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	M&A Activity			Last 5 Years
Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	Total	Buy	Sell	Last 5 Years
CitySprint Acquired DPDGroup 2022-01-11 Surrey, United Kingdom website	Publishing	-	20	20	-
Active Interest Media Acquired B&W Communication 2021-02-16 Boulder, Colorado, United States website	Publishing	-	12	8	4
Gannett Co., Inc. (old) Acquired Gannett 2019-08-05 $1.792B McLean, Virginia, United States	Publishing	2,917	6	6	-
The Economist Group Acquired Exor 2015-08-12 London, United Kingdom website	Publishing	565	8	6	2
Penguin Random House LLC Acquired Bertelsmann 2017-07-11 New York, New York, United States website	Publishing	-	7	6	1
AlphaGraphics, Inc. Acquired MBE WorldWide 2017-10-03 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States website	Publishing	-	5	5	-
Springer Acquired Springer Nature 2015-01-15 Heidelberg, Germany website	Publishing	986	5	4	1
Visant Corp. Acquired Jarden Corp. 2015-10-14 $1.5B Armonk, New York, United States website	Publishing	-	6	4	2
Immediate Media Co. Ltd. Acquired Hubert Burda Media Holding Kommanditgesellschaft 2017-01-11 London, United Kingdom website	Publishing	-	5	4	1
Torstar Corp. Acquired Nordstar Capital 2020-05-26 Toronto, Ontario, Canada website	Publishing	413	8	4	4
Author Solutions, Inc. Acquired Pearson 2012-07-19 $116M Indianapolis, Indiana, United States website	Publishing	-	3	3	-
American City Business Journals Acquired Advance Publications 1995-08-14 $258.8M Charlotte, North Carolina, United States website	Publishing	-	3	3	-
Six Red Marbles Acquired Jouve SA 2016-08-30 Boston, Massachusetts, United States website	Publishing	-	3	3	-
Bowne & Co. Inc. Acquired R.R. Donnelley & Sons 2010-11-24 New York, New York, United States website	Publishing	-	3	2	1
Union Square & Co. Acquired Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2024-11-18 New York, New York, United States website	Publishing	-	2	2	-
CFM Religion Publishing Group LLC Acquired New Mountain Learning LLC 2012-11-07 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States website	Publishing	-	2	2	-

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