{"id":132,"date":"2017-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/press-releases\/american-city-business-journals-acquire-further-50-of-leaders\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T10:59:20","slug":"american-city-business-journals-acquire-50-leaders-founders-worrall-lau-leading-growth-strategy","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/news\/american-city-business-journals-acquire-50-leaders-founders-worrall-lau-leading-growth-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"American City Business Journals acquire further 50% of Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Founders Worrall and Lau lead the growth strategy<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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Leaders, the premium international conference, publishing and training business for sport, has been wholly acquired by American City Business Journals (ACBJ), the USA’s premier print and digital publisher of business news and owners of SportsBusiness Journal, the nation’s definitive source of sports business news.<\/h4>\n
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Leaders Founder and CEO James Worrall, and COO Simon Lau, who sold the first 50% shareholding to ACBJ in August 2014, will continue to spearhead the international expansion of Leaders across the sport business and performance world as well as its diversification across other sectors.<\/p>\n

Leaders organise sport business summits in iconic cities around the world including New York, London and Beijing, and publish thought leadership insights and intelligence for senior executives worldwide.\u00a0The Leaders Performance Institute publishes critical insight, research and data for GMs, Head Coaches, Sporting and Performance Directors at elite organisations in sport with events in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago\u00a0and London. Leaders is now the largest, international media platform for the business and performance side of sport.<\/p>\n

2017 marks the tenth anniversary of the Leaders business. In a landmark year for the company, Leaders will hold major industry summits in Beijing and Chicago for the first time, and will launch Leaders Week, a five-day series of knowledge-sharing, networking, experiential and social sport business events, from 2-6 October in London.<\/p>\n

ACBJ has more than 1,600 employees and is the largest publisher of metropolitan business news in the United States, with 40 business publications and companion digital properties across the country. \u00a0In addition, ACBJ publishes SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily, the preeminent sports business media outlets in the U.S.\u00a0 ACBJ is wholly owned by\u00a0Advance Publications, Inc., a privately held communications company that, directly or through subsidiaries, also\u00a0owns Cond\u00e9 Nast Publications, the Golf Digest Companies, the New Yorker\u00a0and newspapers in more than 25\u00a0American cities. \u00a0Its international operations are based in London.<\/p>\n

Leaders Founder and CEO James Worrall stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“ACBJ have been the perfect partner over the last two and a half years as we\u2019ve invested in the team, expanded our portfolio and grown our international reach.\u00a0 On our tenth anniversary the timing was right to cement that relationship further with ACBJ\u2019s purchase of the second 50% of Leaders. It\u2019s been an amazing journey and I’d like to personally thank the entire Leaders team for their hard work and dedication over those years. I’d also like to thank all our clients and stakeholders in sport who have supported us from day one and promise to continue to deliver events and services according to the values that have been so important to us from the start.\u00a0 We are all excited about the future as we build the Leaders brand and accelerate the growth as a wholly integrated business within a globally networked portfolio of media brands”<\/em><\/p>\n

Whitney Shaw, President of ACBJ, stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“ACBJ’s acquisition of Leaders is testament to the accomplishments of Jimmy, Simon and the entire Leaders team. They’ve been successful — and will continue to be successful —\u00a0because they anticipate what their clients, sponsors and event attendees need to know. \u00a0It’s fitting that as Leaders celebrates its tenth anniversary, new opportunities beckon. \u00a0Witness this summer\u2019s inaugural Leaders event in China. \u00a0It’s just one example of the bright future ahead for Leaders.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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