Informa Buys Foodservice Intel Firm Winsight

Winsight, which provides market intelligence and other information to the global restaurant, non-commercial foodservice and convenience retail industries, has been acquired by London-based Informa, from HPS Investment Partners. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Winsight is headquartered in Chicago, and offers a multi-channel portfolio of brands across research, data and analytics, events, web sites, newsletters and content marketing solutions. The firm's solutions help clients measure and predict industry dynamics, drive engagement with target audiences, refine business development strategies, and create networking opportunities between buyers and sellers.

The business will now merge with Informa's existing B2B foodservice portfolio, while Technomic, Winsight's data and insights business, will be Informa's first insights business dedicated to foodservice. As part of the deal, Winsight CEO Mike Wood (pictured) will continue to lead the business, which will become part of the Informa Connect division.

Informa Connect CEO Andrew Mullins comments: 'This new combination of Informa's existing foodservice assets with Winsight's media, event and data assets, provides the capability to create even more products and services that will better serve the needs of the foodservice industry and its customers. We are very excited to be bringing together such well respected market-leading brands, and the talented teams that support them'.

Web sites: www.winsightmedia.com and www.informa.com .