{"id":50751,"date":"2013-12-10T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50751"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:59:23","slug":"caxton-buys-habari-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/50751\/caxton-buys-habari-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Caxton buys Habari Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed media and printing group\u00a0<a title=\"Caxton\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10828-Caxton\">Caxton<\/a>\u00a0has purchased\u00a0media sales company,\u00a0Habari Media, for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2004, Habari Media represents some of the most\u00a0prestigious names in African digital real estate, including: BBC.com, LinkedIn, MTV, 2Go,\u00a0All4Women and Autotrader.<\/p>\n<p>Habari Media will continue to operate as an innovative specialist under the existing brand,\u00a0along with the same operational management team: Wayne Bischoff as MD;\u00a0Garth Rhoda as sales director; Byron John as insights director and Marius Greeff as commercial director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The buyout represents a huge opportunity for Habari Media and we are very excited to\u00a0become a part of the Caxton group,&#8221; said Bischoff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to exploiting synergies\u00a0across the existing portfolio of Caxton\u2019s media platforms and brands, whilst continuing to\u00a0provide existing partnerships and advertisers with the same level of professional service they\u00a0have become accustomed to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Habari Media, Adrian Hewlett, is \u00a0set to leave the\u00a0company\u00a0to\u00a0focus his attentions on growing Machine, the integrated below the line\u00a0agency he founded in 2012.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SA media<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Times Media targets broadcast strategy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/50662\/times-media-targets-broadcast-strategy\/\"><strong>Times Media targets broadcast strategy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Caxton to buy SA family-owned media company\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/48967\/caxton-to-buy-sa-family-owned-media-company\/\"><strong>Caxton to buy SA family-owned media company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Caxton offloads Pearson stake for R703 million\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/45067\/caxton-offloads-pearson-stake-for-r703-million\/\"><strong>Caxton offloads Pearson stake for R703 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed media and printing group Caxton has purchased media sales company, Habari Media, for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[2116,25,7178,7176,7175,1603,7174,1301,7177],"class_list":["post-50751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-2go","tag-active","tag-all4women","tag-autotrader","tag-bbc-com","tag-caxton","tag-habari-media","tag-linkedin","tag-mtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50754,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50751\/revisions\/50754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}