Yaffa Media, one among Australia’s largest impartial media firms whose portfolio contains AdNews, Meals & Drink Enterprise and Ragtrader, has acquired Spanton Media Group and all its belongings, together with industry-leading title Australian Bartender journal and the Sydney Bar Week occasions. Yaffa Media is celebrating 100 years of impartial operation in 2025, and this acquisition represents optimistic progress for the subsequent century.
“I’ve lengthy admired Yaffa Media for his or her influential publications and occasions,” says Spanton Media Founder and MD David Spanton. “They produce market-leading business-to-business media, and it’s a good match for them to broaden their footprint into the hospitality and drinks sector. Amy and I are thrilled that Yaffa has determined to tackle the enterprise and use their huge assets to hold on what has been my ardour for 25 years.”
Spanton Media Group has been main the best way within the Australian market with its publications and occasions devoted to the bar {industry} for 25 years. They based main commerce occasions, together with Sydney Bar Week and the annual Bartender Journal Australian Bar Awards, the ‘Oscars’ of the bar {industry}, which is in its twenty fourth 12 months in 2025. Spanton Media has been publishing the voice of Australian bartenders, Australian Bartender journal, a month-to-month commerce journal, since 1999.
“[Yaffa Media] produce market-leading business-to-business media, and it’s a good match for them to broaden their footprint into the hospitality and drinks sector. Amy and I are thrilled that Yaffa has determined to tackle the enterprise and use their huge assets to hold on what has been my ardour for 25 years.” – David Spanton, Founder Spanton Media Group
Celebrating 100 years in 2025, Yaffa Media has confirmed it’s a dynamic media enterprise with 16 manufacturers of their steady. They’ve regularly tailored their enterprise mannequin, shifting with the fast adjustments to the fashionable media panorama. Their enlargement into the digital world and their skill to handle occasions in-house makes them a really perfect match for the Spanton Media portfolio.
Yaffa Media’s Managing Director, Tracy Yaffa stated of the acquisition, “We’re thrilled to tackle such high quality media manufacturers and stay up for servicing the colourful hospitality and drinks sector.”
All content material from January 2025 will fall below the Yaffa Media banner. Each David and Amy Spanton will proceed to be concerned within the enterprise, guaranteeing continuity and sustained excellence . “We stay up for working with Yaffa and are excited to be concerned in making all of the belongings an enormous success for them,” provides David Spanton.
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