According to a Reuters UK report, United Business Media and Informa are in early-stage merger talks to create a 3-billion-pound-plus ($5.9 billion) media company.
A source was confirming a story in the UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper and declined to give any further information about the talks that could unite the owners of publications including Property Week and Lloyd's List.
Update coverage here from The Guardian and The Press Association.
UBM recently dropped the CMP brand name in the US restructuring CMP Technology into four separate businesses
The news follows speculation that Informa could be subject to a bid by Candover Investments who apparently were considering taking Informa's academic publishing and merging it with Springer Science + Business Media AG, the German academic publisher that Candover contols with its peer Cinven.
United Business Media Plc is a global business media company serving professional commercial communities, such as doctors, game developers, journalists, jewellery traders, farmers and pharmacists.
Informa provides specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities and is a major organizer of conferences.
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