Blackstone to sell Clarion events unit to Informa for £2.2bn

Financial Times · yesterday
  • Blackstone agreed to sell Clarion, its events business, to Informa for £2.2bn.
  • Informa is FTSE 100-listed and is separating its academic business to focus on live operations, framing the Clarion purchase as a live-events consolidation play.

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“FTSE 100-listed company is also separating its academic business to focus on live operations”— Financial Times

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