Ascential completes GBP300 million tender offer

Ascential plc is a United Kingdom-based company, which provides events, intelligence and advisory services for the marketing and financial technology industries. Its segments include Marketing and Financial Technology. Marketing segment includes events, intelligence and advisory that champion creative marketing that matters through improving creative impact and marketing effectiveness. Marketing segment includes Lions, Contagious and Acuity. Lions, through its awards and festival, as well as its subscription and advisory products, is the global benchmark for creativity in the branded communications industry. Contagious is a creative and strategic intelligence firm that helps agencies and brands improve their marketing by learning from the world's most creative and effective companies and campaigns. Financial Technology segment includes events and intelligence that improve performance for the global money ecosystem. Its Money20/20 division serves the financial technology industry.