By Mark Kleinman, City Editor
A London-listed exhibitions firm will this week announce a £20m takeover that will reduce its reliance on Russia amid the country's currency crisis and the ongoing impact of international sanctions.
Sky News has learnt that ITE Group, which has a market value of more than £350m, is to acquire Breakbulk, a leading provider of shipping and logistics intelligence.
The deal, which is understood to include an additional performance-related payment based on future revenues, is expected to be announced on Monday.
Investors in ITE are expected to view the takeover as a welcome diversification from the company's dependence upon Russia and emerging markets for the majority of its revenues.
Roughly 60% of ITE's sales are generated in Russia, which has seen a plunge in the value of the rouble in recent weeks as evidence of the weakness of the country's economy has mounted.
ITE's chief executive recently acknowledged "currency headwinds and difficult trading conditions in Russia and Ukraine", but managed to beat analysts' profit forecasts despite a decline in sales.
The Russian economy's travails are the main factor behind a near-52% fall in ITE's share price during the last 12 months, prior to which it was in the FTSE-250 index.
Breakbulk runs annual exhibitions - held in Shanghai, the Belgian port of Antwerp and, in alternating years, New Orleans and Houston - for senior executives in logistics roles in sectors such as energy and infrastructure.
Reflecting rapid growth in demand, Breakbulk has also added exhibitions in Brazil, South Africa and Turkey.
The business is part of Axio-Data, which has been owned by Electra Partners, a private equity firm, since last year.
It had previously been under the umbrella of UBM, the much larger media and events group listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Announcing annual results earlier this month, Russell Taylor, ITE chief executive, said it remained "sensitive to the economic climate in Russia but has increasingly good growth prospects in its other markets".
An ITE spokesman declined to comment.
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