Min's B to B articles from December 2006

Min's B to B archives from December 2006

MidOcean Trades Partners.(MidOcean Partners)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Sells Stake In Thompson, Buys Stake In Prism/Penton Rumors printed in The New York Post and other publications hinted that MidOcean Partners was working with Wasserstein/Prism on the Penton deal. When the initial acquisition agreement was...

Industry, Competitors Come Together To Mourn Loss.(Reed's Broadcasting and Cable)(Obituary)
December 4, 2006... John Higgins, the business editor at Reed's Broadcasting and Cable, died suddenly of a heart attack the evening of Monday, November 20. He was 45 years old. His wife, Debbie, survives him. Ordinarily, the loss of someone in the industry...

Slumping Auto Makers Hit Ward's Hard.(Prism's Ward's Auto World )
December 4, 2006... All year, Prism's Ward's Auto World has been languishing at the bottom of a very competitive auto industry boxscore; competitive because of the industry's famous challenges this year: 1. Ford Motor Company: Ford has lost $7 billion in the...

Banking Books Down In '06, Way Down In Sept.
December 4, 2006... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - September 2006/2005) : 1 Title (Publisher): ABA Banking Journal (Simmons-Boardman) Ad Pages YTD 2006: 256.73 % Chg. YTD 2005: 300.18 % Chg. YTD: -14.47 % Chg. SEPT#: -28.39...

Perishable Food?
December 4, 2006... When looked at as a whole, the channels in our food boxscores are all down in ad pages year over year. The September numbers are even more alarming: retail--down 12.20%; service/restaurants--down 17.95%; and processing--down 10.25%. The...

'Tis The Season: Sites Ride The Tides.
December 4, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor October traffic to business information moved with predictable, cyclical regularity. The natural business cycles in many segments dominate this month's exclusive min's b2b digital boxscores. For...

Change Of Plans: HW Rebuilds Sales Structure.(Hanley-Wood L.L.C.)
December 4, 2006... The residential sector of the construction industry (the channel that Hanley Wood's Builder and Big Builder serve) is in the middle of a correction, which is a euphemism for the 21.9% drop in the number of new houses being built from 2005 to...

John French To Lead Penton.(Penton Media Inc.)
December 11, 2006... New Entity Takes Old Company's Name, Not Its CEO Staffers at Penton Media can rest easy tonight, knowing that they will not have to change their email addresses or business cards. The newly created Prism/Penton entity, owned by...

Jan.- Sept. BIN Numbers Show Slow, Steady Growth In 2006.
December 11, 2006... The September BIN report, provided by American Business Media, IMS and PERQ, showed some stagnation of the healthcare sector in the month of September (although it is up year-to-date). Pessimists (some would say realists) are predicting...

min's b2b's Top Ad Page Gainers For 2006, YDT.
December 11, 2006... : 1 Publication: MACTECH YTD 2006: 415.92 YTD 2006: 201.53 % diff: 106.38 : 2 Publication: Long Term Care News YTD 2006: 468.31 YTD 2006: 256.44 % diff: 82.62 : 3 Publication: Campus Technology YTD 2006: 329.48 YTD...

Computing Ziff: What's Going On In There?
December 11, 2006... From time to time, industry insiders and min's b2b get together to discuss interesting industry events. The topic that is on everyone's mind now is the impending sale (or attempt at one) of Ziff Davis by its equity owners, Willis Stein &...

TVWeek And B&C Join min's b2b's Boxscores.
December 11, 2006... BROADCAST/VIDEO AD PAGES AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-October 2006/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1...

MacTech Again? Banner Year Continues.
December 11, 2006... Apple's Computer Inc.'s market share in the personal computer race is up 31.1% year over year, putting it at 5.39%. In part, this helps to explain the absurd and impressive rise of Xplain's MacTech, which is up 106.38% year-to-date and...

Massive Manufacturing Books Flex Horizontal Muscle.
December 11, 2006... The domestic design and manufacturing market is incredibly diverse. The two mammoth books that cover this channel, Penton's Machine Design and Reed's Design News, write about topics as disparate as medical packaging and assembly line...

Reed Buys Way Into Lead Generation.(Reed Business Information Ltd., BuyerZone.com Inc.)
December 11, 2006... Reed Business Information, the largest B2B media company in the country, as measured in ad pages, has announced that it will acquire BuyerZone.com, Inc., an online lead generation company. The deal will close near the beginning of 2007, and...

The Big Flux: B2B Re-Thinks Digital.
December 11, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor You would think that by now, a good decade into the World Wide Web as a commercial venture, content providers would have settled into some standardized ways of organizing their digital businesses....

CMP Strengthens Software Portfolio.(CMP Technology's Software 2007 conference )(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... CMP Technology announced its acquisition of the Software 2007 conference on December 5. Over 1,500 VP-level and higher information technology executives flock to Software 2007, which is a two-day event. M.R. Rangaswami, a 25-year industry...

Postal Bill Sent To The White House.(postal service rules)
December 18, 2006... Rate Debate Set To Begin At the 11th hour, at 4:00 AM, Saturday morning (12/9), the Senate passed the Postal Modernization Act, which was passed in the House at 10:30 PM the previous day--just in time to get a bill to President Bush...

Big Moves At VNU + Travel Annals.(Industry overview)
December 18, 2006... Ten staffers, including some senior editorial positions, have been removed at The Hollywood Reporter, VNU Business Media's marquis brand, including spokesperson Lynda Miller, who could obviously not be reached for comment. These moves, so...

McKnight's Has Huge October, Vaults Past NH.
December 18, 2006... Postal reform wasn't the only 11th-hour piece to pass through Congress; bills addressing the Medicare Part B Therapy Caps and the Medicaid Tax Provision were both pushed through at the last minute. According to CC Andrews, publisher of...

Strong October Boosts Year-To-Date Pharm Pages.(Table)
December 18, 2006... PHARMACEUTICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-October 2006/2005) Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Chain Drug Review (Racher) 993.75 940.01 2 Contract Pharma (Rodman) 450.48...

Vitale Solidifies 1105's Presence In Gov. Tech. Ind.(Industry overview)
December 18, 2006... min's b2b was extra prescient when it wondered aloud last week whether Neal Vitale's 1105 Media would be making a splash in the M&A market anytime soon in the 12/11 issue. Last Friday, just after press-time, 1105 Media announced that it had...

Aftermarket Business Booms In October.(Table)
December 18, 2006... AUTOMOTIVE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - October 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Aftermarket Business (Advanstar)...

Highline's Research Leads All Year-To-Date Gainers.(Table)
December 18, 2006... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - October 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 ABA Banking Journal...

Can B2B Get Mobilized?
December 18, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor We've been asking B2B digital executives lately whether they are looking seriously at moving their content and services to the next hot platform, one that the consumer publishing side is pursuing...

QuickView: Mike Winkleman, CCO (Chief Creative Officer), Leverage Media.(six Pearl Awards )(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Mike Winkleman's company, Leverage Media, won six Pearl Awards (the Custom Publishing Council's version of the CEBAs) this year, including three golds, which would be a feat for any small company, let alone one that only exists virtually....

Outsell Snippet.(Online advertising)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... According to Outsell's I-Market MarketView report entitled B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information: 2006 Market Size, Share, Forecast, and Trend Report, the following chart, also from the report, illustrates the following trends: *...

ABM Gala Huge Success--Members Want More.(American Business Media)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Over 450 publishers, CEOs, bankers, players and their guests showed up in their best formal garb to the elegant Whale room in New York's Natural History Museum at 79th and Central Park West on Thursday, December 7 to help American Business...

News & Notes.
December 18, 2006... Incoming IAB CEO Rothenberg Hopes To Keep His Ad Age Column He has covered advertising since succeeding the late New York Times ad columnist Phil Dougherty in 1988 (a three-year stint highlighted by a February 1989 front-pager on young...

Happy Holidays, From min's b2b.
December 18, 2006... This year has been a wild one in the B2B media world, with several companies finding themselves under new ownership (VNU Group, Penton Media), and several more new platforms being assembled (Summit Business Media, 1105 Media, and Advantage...