Clarion Events takes over ATE organizer
BACTA, the UK trade association for the pay to play amusement industry, has confirmed that Clarion Events, a UK based organizer of trade and consumer exhibitions has acquired a controlling interest in ATE, BACTA’s commercial exhibition, conference, publishing and services subsidiary.
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