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Maiden, the outdoor advertising company with a market valuation of about £40m, is expected to be put up for sale, having appointed NM Rothschild to consider its strategic options. 21-Dec-2005 Soho Editors is to invest £4m in the worldwide expansion of its post-production talent agency business, by opening six new branches and recruiting 1,500 freelancers. 21-Dec-2005 All3Media, the TV production company, has appointed UBS to conduct a strategic review, which could lead to a £250m sale or flotation. 19-Dec-2005 Telegraph Group, the newspaper publisher, is said to be planning to relocate its London head office from Canary Wharf to Victoria next year. 19-Dec-2005 SMG is to shed about 60 jobs at Scottish TV and Grampian Television, due to changes to its broadcasting licence and the introduction of new technology. 16-Dec-2005 ITV is to close its ITV News Channel early next year with the loss of an estimated 25 jobs, and the money saved will be reinvested in news on ITV1. 15-Dec-2005 Carillion has won a £230m contract from News International to build printing presses in Liverpool, Glasgow and London. 14-Dec-2005 Reuters is to relocate its Nottingham-based software division to a 25,000 sq ft office in the city's Chapel Quarter. 14-Dec-2005 Trinity Mirror is to shed almost 30 jobs at the Scottish edition of the Daily Mirror, in order to reduce the size of its Glasgow operation. 09-Dec-2005 Molinare has acquired Grand Central Studios' Marshall Street audio studio in London for undisclosed terms. 06-Dec-2005 The BBC is planning to reduce the workforce in its finance division from 650 to 260 over the next three years, with about 40 jobs being outsourced to an external provider. 06-Dec-2005 Sanctuary is considering plans to raise £100m in a share placing, in order to reduce debt and secure the future of its record label and artist management business. 05-Dec-2005 Apace Media has raised £7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its TV production operations, and has also announced the acquisition of a 50% stake in Bulgarian cable and satellite company Diema Vision. 05-Dec-2005 Guardian Media Group is to shed up to 48 jobs in Manchester by the end of the year, including 34 non-editorial jobs and the closure of the City Life entertainment and listing magazine. 01-Dec-2005 Daily Mail & General Trust has put its Northcliffe Newspapers business up for sale, with an estimated valuation of up to £1.5bn, in order to focus on exhibitions and information publishing. 01-Dec-2005 The BBC has unveiled plans to expand its TV production operations outside London, with Scotland specialising in comedy, arts, factual, children's and entertainment, Wales on music, performance and documentaries and Northern Ireland on current affairs. 01-Dec-2005 Avanti Screenmedia is to raise £25m in a share placing to fund the launch of a new TV satellite. 10-Nov-2005 Ekay is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund acquisitions and the geographical expansion of its advertising business. 07-Nov-2005 Dowlis Corporate Solutions, the marketing services company, is planning to raise £4.5m in a flotation on Aim. 31-Oct-2005 The BBC World Service is to close ten foreign language services with the loss of more than 200 jobs, in order to fund a new £19m Arabic TV channel. 26-Oct-2005 The BBC has confirmed plans to relocate its Oxford Road site in Manchester to a new media zone that would also house independent broadcasters, and two sites in Manchester and two in Salford are being considered. 24-Oct-2005 Trinity Mirror, the newspaper publisher, has warned of possible redundancies from its 11,000-strong workforce, prompting union fears that more than 500 jobs could be lost. 19-Oct-2005 Television Corporation has received a £29m takeover approach, thought to be from Llanelli-based production company Tinopolis. 17-Oct-2005 Roll to Record, the outside broadcasting TV facilities company with 14 permanent staff, has put itself up for sale. 17-Oct-2005 The Leadership Factor is to create up to 30 new jobs at its call centre in Huddersfield, due to rising demand for its customer satisfaction surveys. 05-Oct-2005 Archant is to shed about 30 jobs at its Norfolk-based newspaper publishing business, which will mainly affect its advertisement production department. 05-Oct-2005 The Number is to recruit up to 100 additional staff at its telephone directory call centre in Plymouth. 05-Oct-2005 Switchco is to set up a 4,500 sq ft headquarters at the Met Building on London's Tottenham Court Road, in order to organise the UK's switch from analogue to digital TV. 03-Oct-2005 ITV is looking to sell 021 Television, its Birmingham-based outside broadcasting business with 58 staff, by the end of the year. 03-Oct-2005 Market Reach has gone into liquidation with the loss of up to 250 jobs at its telesales operations in Plymouth, Falmouth and Sidmouth. 30-Sep-2005 Sanctuary Music is to shed at least 100 jobs following the withdrawal of a possible takeover approach. 27-Sep-2005 LBM is to create a further 300 jobs at its recently-opened direct marketing call centre in Belfast, and a new building will open at the Springvale Business Park in January. 23-Sep-2005 Aegis, the media buying group, has received a £1.6bn preliminary takeover approach, thought to be from Publicis of France. 22-Sep-2005 Teletext is planning to shed up to 70 jobs, in order to outsource more editorial work to the Press Association. 13-Sep-2005 Ulster Television and The Local Radio Company have formed a joint venture sales house to represent 113 local radio stations across the country. 13-Sep-2005 Northcliffe Newspapers is considering plans to close its newspaper printing press in Swansea with the loss of up to 67 jobs, in order to transfer production to other sites. 09-Sep-2005 Cellcast is planning to raise £4.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its interactive TV business. 22-Aug-2005 Garnett Dickinson is investing £20m in the development of a new printing plant at Brookfield Park near Rotherham, and the press should be operational by January 2006. 18-Aug-2005 BSkyB is said to be considering plans to move into the UK cinema market with the possible acquisition of six UGC sites from Blackstone Group for about £30m. 15-Aug-2005 The North Devon Journal is to relocate to a new 6,000sq ft building in Barnstaple in February 2006. 09-Aug-2005 Reed Exhibitions is to set up a 35,000 sq ft office in Richmond, Surrey, in order to consolidate staff from three existing sites. 08-Aug-2005 Puzzler Media, the publisher of puzzle magazines valued at up to £100m, has appointed Hawkpoint to consider options for a possible sale of the business. 01-Aug-2005 United Business Media is to sell its 35% stake in Channel 5 Television Group to RTL Group for £248m, and the proceeds will be invested in UBM's other businesses. 21-Jul-2005 South West Screen has secured funding for a £1.1m scheme to help companies expand in the South West-based film and media industry, including support for research initiatives and business development plans. 20-Jul-2005 Garlands is creating a further 70 jobs at its call centre in Hartlepool, taking the workforce to 1,400. 15-Jul-2005 Emmis International of the US is looking to acquire UK radio stations, in order to benefit from the expected consolidation of the market. 15-Jul-2005 Research Now is planning to raise £5m in a share placing on Aim to fund the expansion of its online market research business. 11-Jul-2005 Screen Technology is planning to raise £10m in a share placing to fund the development of a new system for producing large visual display screens. 11-Jul-2005 Clear, the London-based visual effects company, is to undergo a management buy-out. 11-Jul-2005 United Business Media is looking to sell its Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange publications. 04-Jul-2005 Daily Mail & General Trust has announced plans to restructure its regional newspaper publishing business, in order to cut costs by £20m, which could lead to the closure of presses in Exeter, Lincoln, Grimsby and Hull. 30-Jun-2005 The Met Office is considering plans to close its weather centre in Aberdeen, which employs 37 staff, in order to transfer the work to its Exeter headquarters. 24-Jun-2005 Westcountry Publications is considering plans to transfer the production of the Express & Echo newspaper from Exeter to Plymouth, with the loss of up to 65 jobs. 21-Jun-2005 QVC is looking to recruit 120 extra staff for its TV shopping business in Knowsley. 21-Jun-2005 Reed Elsevier is to relocate the distribution centre for its Harcourt Education business to a 200,000 sq ft warehouse at Shirley Park Farm in Rushden by the end of the year. 13-Jun-2005 Ofcom has awarded a new analogue radio licence for Manchester to Xfm, which is owned by GCap Media. 13-Jun-2005 Babel Media, the Brighton-based provider of outsourced services to the video games industry, has secured a £0.5m investment from Noble Fund Managers. 10-Jun-2005 Jim Henson Company is considering plans to close its Creature Shop special effects business in London, with the loss of 23 permanent staff and dozens of freelance jobs. 06-Jun-2005 Daily Mail & General Trust is to build a flexo printing plant in Didcot by 2008, as part of its planned £100m move to full-colour newspapers. 03-Jun-2005 Vertigo Films is looking to raise up to £4m in a private share placing to fund new films and the development of a TV distribution business. 30-May-2005 Anglia Television has announced plans to shed a further 46 jobs in its regional programming, studios, IT and finance operations. 23-May-2005 Channel 4 is looking to spend up to £188m on acquisitions and commercial investments over the next year, in order to reduce its reliance on advertising revenue. 23-May-2005 QA Research is creating 20 new jobs at its York-based market research business over the next 12 months. 20-May-2005 Northcliffe Newspapers is seeking planning permission to build a £50m printing plant near Elsham in North Lincolnshire to print four local evening newspapers. 19-May-2005 Pinewood Shepperton has won outline planning permission to invest £40m in the expansion of its two film production facilities near London over the next ten years. 19-May-2005 T&F Informa is looking to spend up to £300m on acquisitions to expand its publishing and conferences business. 18-May-2005 Freshwater, the Cardiff-based public relations and marketing company, has secured a £0.5m investment from Finance Wales, and is planning to expand from 32 staff in four offices to over 50 in seven or eight offices by early next year. 17-May-2005 ITV is planning to sell off about half of its 2m sq ft of studio space, including sites in Newcastle, Bristol, Norwich, Birmingham and Manchester. 16-May-2005 Telewest Broadband is to create 70 jobs at its call centre in Brierley Hill, including 50 new posts and 20 existing vacancies. 10-May-2005 RDF Media is looking to acquire up to three TV production companies this year, following its £50m flotation on Aim. 09-May-2005 Media Steps is to raise £2.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its system for advertising on public staircases. 02-May-2005 All3Media is in talks to acquire Mersey Television, the Liverpool-based TV production company. 02-May-2005 Campus Vision is planning to raise £2m in a flotation on Aim this summer, to fund the development of its Newcastle-based university broadcasting business. 27-Apr-2005 Scottish Standard, the recently-launched pro-independence newspaper, has ceased trading with the loss of about 40 jobs in Paisley. 27-Apr-2005 Clegg Construction has won a £6m contract to refurbish the Leicester-based headquarters of the Leicester Mercury over the next 14 months. 27-Apr-2005 Glasgow City Council is to help fund a broadband internet TV channel called Glasgow.tv, which will be operated by Narrowstep. 18-Apr-2005 Zig Zag Productions is to set up a new office in Brighton with Lace International to develop new TV and DVD ideas, and is also looking to open an office in New York. 11-Apr-2005 Hat Trick is in talks to acquire IWC Media, the Glasgow-based TV production company with 60 staff. 11-Apr-2005 Local Radio Company has been awarded the FM radio licence for Durham. 11-Apr-2005 LBM is planning to set up a direct marketing call centre at the Springvale Business Park in Belfast in April, with the creation of an initial 300 jobs. 04-Apr-2005 RDF Media is to announce plans for a listing on Aim that will value the independent TV production company at up to £60m. 04-Apr-2005 Scramble is in the process of relocating its London-based audio studio from Covent Garden to Soho, and staff numbers will double to more than 20. 04-Apr-2005 East Midlands Development Agency and Lincolnshire Enterprise are planning to set up a £2m media and computing centre at the University of Lincoln, in order to improve the links between the university and local companies. 31-Mar-2005 Telewest is looking to sell its Flextech TV business, which owns channels such as Bravo and Challenge, for up to £800m. 30-Mar-2005 Yorkshire Forward is planning to set up a Digital Media Centre in Barnsley in 2006, in order to provide facilities for 70 creative companies. 24-Mar-2005 Transport for London is to invite bids for the distribution of a free afternoon newspaper on the London Underground. 23-Mar-2005 The BBC has announced plans to shed a further 2,000 jobs in its programme making and TV network operations, and some of the savings will be spent with independent production companies. 22-Mar-2005 Intandem is to raise £1.2m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its film financing business. 22-Mar-2005 RDF Media is looking to expand its TV production business through acquisitions, and a strategic review is expected to consider the possibility of a flotation. 21-Mar-2005 Capital Radio and GWR are to be renamed GCap Media following their merger in May. 21-Mar-2005 Ipsos UK is setting up a new market research call centre in Lowestoft, and the initial 50-strong workforce is expected to rise to 100 over the summer. 14-Mar-2005 ANT has raised £11m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of software for the internet protocol TV market. 14-Mar-2005 Adwalker is to raise about £2m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of a body pack that displays advertising on a computer screen. 14-Mar-2005 The BBC has announced plans to shed 980 jobs in its professional services divisions, while a further 750 jobs will be outsourced, and the savings will be reinvested in programmes. 11-Mar-2005 GDS Publishing, the publishing and events company, is setting up an office in Cardiff that will create 75 jobs over the next 12 months. 11-Mar-2005 Derby City Council is planning to set up a £3.2m creative business hub in the city centre, for up to 40 firms involved in graphic design, film-making and computer games. 09-Mar-2005 Pinewood Shepperton is in discussions to acquire Whitfield Street Studios, the London-based audio facility, for about £1m. 07-Mar-2005 S4C, the Welsh broadcaster, is to close its S4C International division, which has nine staff, and the business will be put out to tender. 07-Mar-2005 YouGov is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of its online polling business. 28-Feb-2005 Incepta is in merger discussions with Huntsworth to expand its public relations and marketing business. 22-Feb-2005 MediaZest has raised £2m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its instore marketing promotions business. 22-Feb-2005 Johnston Press is to build a £60m newspaper printing plant on the site of the former Dinnington colliery in South Yorkshire by August 2006. 21-Feb-2005 ITV is planning to close its multichannel production unit in Manchester with the loss of up to 20 jobs. 21-Feb-2005 Milestone Group is to raise £1.1m in a share placing on Aim to fund applications for local radio licences and the expansion of its local media network. 18-Feb-2005 Mice, the marketing services group, is to raise £25m in a share placing to strengthen its balance sheet. 17-Feb-2005 Twofour Productions is to relocate its Plymouth-based TV production business and 130 staff to a £2m site at Estover in May, with the creation of 36 new jobs. 17-Feb-2005 Daily Mail & General Trust is to invest more than £100m in new colour printing capacity for its national newspaper titles. 15-Feb-2005 Delling Group has raised £1.3m in a share placing to fund acquisitions for its marketing support services business. 10-Feb-2005 Random Harvest Pictures is linking up with Hammer Films to raise up to £16m from the Enterprise Investment Scheme, and the proceeds will be used to make six low-budget horror films this year. 07-Feb-2005 Telegraph Group is to shed 90 editorial jobs to help fund a £150m investment in new printing facilities. 07-Feb-2005 Shed Productions, the TV production company, is planning a flotation on Aim with a valuation of about £40m. 31-Jan-2005 United Business Media is considering plans to sell its NOP World market research business for about £300m. 31-Jan-2005 Eagle Rock Entertainment, the music publisher, is expected to be put up for sale by HgCapital for about £60m. 25-Jan-2005 Equinox is relocating its public relations business to larger premises at the Llanishen Business Park in Cardiff. 24-Jan-2005 Tinopolis, the Llanelli-based TV production company, is planning a flotation in order to raise funds for the acquisition of a London-based independent production company. 24-Jan-2005 TV Commerce is planning to raise £2.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of its satellite TV channel. 18-Jan-2005 Crow Television is to set up a new post-production facility at Shepherds Building in west London in March, and its 22-strong workforce is expected to double this year. 10-Jan-2005 Robson Brown, the Newcastle-based advertising agency with 120 staff, is looking to open an office in central London and is currently in the process of recruiting staff. 05-Jan-2005
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