Monday, March 30, 2009

Incisive Media Worthless - Ingenious

The Sunday Telegraph reports that Ingenious Media has written off its stake in Incisive Media. They were part of the investment fund put together by Apax to do the deal to buy Incisive when it went private. With so many of the large business media companies being in private hands we can't see how bad trading really is. Management at Incisive Media claim the business is still very profitable, but we have to conclude, that Ingenious at least has concluded that the outlook is not great and the mountain of debt is too steep to climb.

We would agree with that view. Incisive will have to do three things. A refinancing/ debt equity swap/injection of funds from Apax is now almost inevitable. Second, like other business media companies, a move to a new low overhead model is now urgent. Waiting for a recovery just will not do. Third, Incisive should consider the sale of some assets - even if not ideal, to focus on a smaller number of core competencies and to pay down some of its debt.


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