26th Oct 2005 13:06
Centaur Holdings PLC26 October 2005 26th October 2005 Centaur Holdings plc (Centaur) acquires logistics magazines and awards Centaur, the specialist business publishing and information company, is pleasedto announce that it has acquired Supply Chain Business and Logistics Europe,magazines for logistics and supply chain professionals both in the UK andEurope. It has also acquired the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards that iscomplementary to Logistics Europe. The magazines and award have been bought fromUK Transport Press Ltd for a consideration of £0.3m. This is Centaur's second logistics-related acquisition this year, as in FebruaryCentaur entered the logistics community with the acquisition of LogisticsManager and the two Logistics Link exhibitions. Since that purchase,www.logisticsmanager.com has been launched and a new exhibition, MaterialsLive!, has been announced. Graham Sherren, Chairman and Chief Executive of Centaur, said: "We are veryexcited at the prospect of increasing our position in the logistics communityand the potential this move brings." Centaur's strategy is to build on its strength in the markets in which italready operates, as well as looking for other communities where it can applyits knowledge and expertise. This latest acquisition reflects the successfulcontinuation of that strategy. Bernard Steel, Managing Director of UK Transport Press and publisher of SupplyChain Business and Logistics Europe, said: "The addition of the two magazinesand the Awards event to the Centaur logistics portfolio will expand the depth ofinformation provided to management and professionals in this critical businessfunction." Centaur is one of the UK's leading business-to-business publishers. Centaur'spublications include Marketing Week, New Media Age (NMA), Design Week, CreativeReview, The Lawyer, Finance Week, Money Marketing and The Engineer. It also hasa major Exhibitions division that runs around 20 exhibitions a year includingthe Business Travel shows, several shows in the marketing and financial servicessectors and the Homebuilding & Renovating shows. The Supply Chain Business and Logistics Europe operations will be moving toCentaur's offices in central London in early November. Enquiries:Centaur Holdings plc Graham Sherren Tel: 020 7970 4506 Geoff WilmotGavin Anderson & Company Richard Constant Tel: 020 7554 1400 Robert Speed Janine Brewis This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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