Centaur Media, publisher of The Lawyer, Marketing Week, and The Engineer, has sold its travel and meetings division for £9.25 million to Northstar Travel Media, the owners of the Business Travel Show and The Meetings Show.
Northstar Travel Group, a business to business information and marketing solutions company focused on the global travel and meetings industries, is owned by EagleTree Capital. Completion of the disposal is expected to take place on 30 April 2019.
The disposal follows Centaur's decision to divest its smaller businesses in order to simplify the group's structure and to focus management resources on its leading brands.
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Centaur announced on 1 April 2019 that it has raised £5 million from the sale of its financial services business, which includes brands such as Money Marketing and Mortgage Strategy.
Northstar will pay £9.25 million for CTM, which formed part of the group's professional services division. Centaur will consider the best use for the sale proceeds following the completion of its divestment review.
Centaur's professional services division comprises The Lawyer and a portfolio of market leading event brands across three sectors: travel and meetings, human resources and engineering.
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Andria Vidler, chief executive of Centaur, said: "Today's announcement is another important milestone in Centaur's ongoing transformation. As we focus on building more robust and stronger recurring revenues, we are reducing group complexity and overheads that will allow us to deliver efficiencies and improve our operating margins.
“Our travel and meetings exhibitions have made a valuable contribution to Centaur over the years, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the team for their commitment. I am pleased that the business is joining Northstar, who recognise its value and whose expertise and understanding of the travel sector will help it to realise its potential.”
