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Oct
3
2007
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12:55pm BBC Aquires Lonely Planet Guidebooks

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Look what I spotted in the news. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has bought Lonely Planet in a deal thought to be worth around €143m. Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler will keep a 25% stake in the travel publisher they founded in 1972.[...] Read More »