Reed Exhibitions, a division of Reed Elsevier, has sold seven Canadian industrial and manufacturing tradeshows to The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), as part of the final divestiture of its strategic alignment of its business operations in North America.

SME has purchased the following events: Plant Maintenance & Design Engineering; Western Manufacturing Technology Show; Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show; Advanced Manufacturing Expo; Montreal Manufacturing Technology; Southwest Ontario Industrial Show; and Canadian Manufacturing Week.

JEGI CLARITY represented Reed Exhibitions in this transaction.