Min's B to B articles from January 2005

Min's B to B archives from January 2005

BIN Spin: B2B Makes Some Noise of Its Own Heading Into the New Year.(Business Information Network)(business to business )
January 3, 2005... Publishers hoping to start the New Year off on a bright note might consider this: in Business Information Network figures for October 2004 released during the holiday break by American Business Media, year-to-date ad spending in 10 major...

B2B New Media: Get Into the (Web) Feed: IDG's InfoWorld Charts a Path for the RSS Future.(business to business)(real simple syndication)
January 3, 2005... If your Web site isn't offering at least one RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed, then you may be excluding your brand from an online conversation that is growing exponentially. RSS and its allied protocol, Atom, are simple XML feeds of your...

B2B Boxscores (October).(Illustration)
January 3, 2005... BANKING AND FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-October) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 ABA Banking Journal 354.54 347.71 1.97...

B2B Boxscores (October).(Illustration)
January 3, 2005... VERTICAL/SPECIAL INTEREST AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-October) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 CRM Customer Relationship Mgt. 147.83 ...

HR Management Update: Will New Federal Regs on Overtime Exemptions Leave Some Publishers Under the Weather?(human resources)(regulations)
January 3, 2005... Would you consider your journalist employees to be "learned" or "creative" professionals, and, as such, to be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requirement that they receive overtime pay? While most B2B publishing companies have...

B2B Boxscores (October): Foodservice Fools the B2B Goblins, Maintains Winning Year-end Pace.(Illustration)
January 3, 2005... There hasn't always been a lot to write home about concerning recent B2B advertising Boxscores. A lot of once-strong publishing categories have been showing their age, and even the better performers have regained lost ground only fitfully, and...

Editor's Note.
January 3, 2005... Dear Publishers, Media Buyers and Brand Executives, Happy New Year! What a difference a year makes... the magazine community is starting to see consistent gains in overall ad pages and a greater diversity in integrated programs offered to...

B2B People on the Move.(business to business)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Through several recent acquisitions, Ascend Media has picked up scores of new employees in Kansas City, California, New Jersey, and Illinois. Now it has a new VP/human resources to help manage them all, with Roger Dusing (ex-Recovery...

B2B Stockwatch: Despite Doom-and-Gloom Business News Year, B2B Fords Through '04 in Fine Fettle.(Illustration)
January 3, 2005... The year just passed was full of alarming business news, but neither the stock market as a whole, nor our B2B companies in particular, did very badly at all. All but two of our 11 entries finished the year up, with JupiterMedia--the second...

'05 M&A Outlook: Influx of Private Equity Makes B2B a Seller's Market.(mergers and acquisitions)
January 10, 2005... Media mavens who've been singing the death knell for B2B magazines might ponder this: If print is so yesterday, why, according to deal activity figures released last week by media broker Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc., did valuations on 2004 B2B...

B2B Ad Categories: Steady but Stodgy Course Going Into the Final Lap.
January 10, 2005... When we spoke to him early in 2004, American Business Media chief Gordon Hughes projected B2B print ad growth in the 2%-5% range. Modest aspirations, certainly, but reasonably achievable and a far sight better than being down 5%! As our...

New Media Boxscores (October): Crossover Brands Scare Up Peak October Traffic.
January 10, 2005... There were no Halloween jitters for a number of high profile industry pubs in October as titles that attract both B2B and consumer audiences registered some of the best October growth. International Data Group's PCWorld.com (+14.60% Page...

Boxscores (November): Can't Seem to Win From Losing in Developer/Tech Sector.(Illustration)
January 10, 2005... From our Go Figure Department comes this morsel: Although our Developer/Tech Boxscore group has been taking it in the neck all year, November spending results--+3.58% overall--were about three percentage points better than October's +0.49%....

Boxscores (November).(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... RESELLER AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-November) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 Business Solutions 589.58 679.91 -13.29 2...

B2B People on the Move.(Stephen Moylan, Sid Holt appointed)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Stephen Moylan last week was named president of Reed Business Information's Boston Division; he also will serve as chairman of RBI's EDN-flagshipped Electronics Group, which he joined two years ago as VP/publishing director of EDN Worldwide....

B2B Stockwatch: M-H, RBI Hit Ground Running in 2005.
January 10, 2005... It's a bit early in the year to pick apart stock prices, but McGraw-Hill and Reed have both already forged new construction database partnerships (with Torto Wheaton Research and Property & Portfolio Research, respectively) to expand their...

B2B M&A Monitor: Abry Partners Hits One Out of the Park Via NCI Sale.(Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners acquisition of Network Communications, Inc.)
January 17, 2005... One of the key points made in our 2005 M&A outlook in last week's issue was that there is plenty of ready capital out there in private equity markets just looking for the right B2B opportunities, and that investors in these groups won't just...

B2B Circulation: Are BPA's New Rules on Digital Delivery Change or Charade?
January 17, 2005... Controlled circulation reporting rules changes for digital B2B editions unveiled last week by audit agency BPA Worldwide are a move in the right direction but don't really address the fundamental problem that treatment of digital delivery is...

With Convention Business in South Asia, the Show Goes On.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... When min's b2b sister company ChemicalWeek Associates recently decided to keep plans in place for an upcoming trade show in Bangkok, Thailand, it may have seemed odd given the wholesale destruction wrought throughout vast swathes of South Asia...

B2B Ad Categories: YTD Spending Gains Another Half Percentage Point in Revised November Tallies.(Illustration)
January 17, 2005... As with our November Developer/Technical and Reseller Boxscores in last week's issue, a computer foul-up produced an inaccurate report on November activity for 15 key B2B magazine categories. Corrected figures--in which nine of 15 sectors show...

Boxscores (November): Healthcare Flags a Bit, But Vioxx Scare Doesn't Scare Off Rx Business.(Illustration)
January 17, 2005... It might be easy to suppose that such recent pharmaceutical industry controversies as the Vioxx scandal (in which a long-since approved drug is deemed to have contributed to some heart ailments) and the continuing tug-of-war over prescription...

Boxscores (November): In November Recount, Developer/Tech Sector's -12.87% YTD $$$ "Improves" to -11.56%.(Illustration)
January 17, 2005... It wasn't quite on a par with the Florida vote-counting errors in the 2000 Presidential election, but our report on November 2004 Boxscores in the Developer/Technical and Reseller sectors certainly were in error. Due to a computing misstep...

Boxscores (November).(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... RESELLER AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-November) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 Business Solutions 853.99 944.5 -9.58 2...

People on the Move.(appointments)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... At Reed Business Information, Variety publisher/Variety Group executive VP Charlie Koones is now president of the unit, which includes daily and weekly versions of the entertainment industry staple as well as a well-traveled Web site. Koones...

B2B Stockwatch: In Rare Consensus, Every B2B Trades Below Its 52-Week High.(Illustration)
January 17, 2005... It's still a little early in the year to draw any sweeping conclusions from the market activity of our 11 B2B players, but one point jumps out from a review of Week 2 activity: Although eight of our 11 companies are down over two weeks of...

M&A Outlook (Part II): Even As Deal Volume Soars, Are B2Bs Becoming Benchwarmers on Their Own Field?
January 24, 2005... The annual battle of the dueling M&A reports is drawing to a close, but it ain't over 'til DeSilva & Phillips weighs in with its tome. That entry has now arrived and, not surprisingly, it suggests that all systems are go for another banner...

B2B M&A Monitor: Douglas Publishing Beefs Up Biz Management Line Via Briefings Buy.(Briefings Publishing Group. from Wicks Business Information)
January 24, 2005... Speaking of private equity and M&A, Wicks Business Information--mentioned twice in the DeSilva & Phillips list cited above--last week cashed out of one of its earliest acquisitions, selling its Briefings Publishing Group to Richmond, VA-based...

BIN Spin (November 2004): Spending Growth Spurt Powers Late-Year Gains.(Business Information Network)
January 24, 2005... At this time last year (min's b2b, 1/26/04), we were lamenting that "print ad spending inched up while ad pages declined" in November 2003 Business Information Network figures released by American Business Media, which had acknowledged that...

B2B Boxscores (November 2004): Healthy Banking/Finance Fold Helps Explain Investcorp's Thomson Courtship.(Illustration)
January 24, 2005... It's easy enough to see why Investcorp's $350M acquisition of financial news publisher Thomson Media was one of the biggest deals of 2004 (see page 1 story and page 5 chart). While many other B2B sectors tracked in these pages have shown low...

B2B Boxscores (November 2004): Fading Foodservice Finds Its Footing Again, Notches November Rebound.(Illustration)
January 24, 2005... Food mags may have faded a bit going into the year's stretch run, but the group posted some nice November numbers to bring it back from the brink of posting par numbers on the year. Year-to-date results remain relatively flat--ad pages are...

B2B People on the Move.(Susan Whiting appointed at VNU's Media Measurement and Information Group; Greg Smith appointed at PennWell Corp. for Oil & Gas Financial Journal)(Brief Article)
January 24, 2005... Susan Whiting has been named to succeed Mike Connors as executive VP of VNU's Media Measurement & Information Group when Connors leaves the company in April. Whiting is presently CEO of VNU's Nielsen Media Research unit...PennWell Corp. named...

B2B Birth Announcements.(Brief Article)
January 24, 2005... High-tech researcher/consultancy Forrester Research is tackling the magazine game with the launch of a new quarterly called, as it happens, Forrester. Debuting in February with no outside advertising, the new title will target 40,000 worldwide...

B2B Stockwatch: Will Improved Values Pave the Way for Bigger/Better B2B M&A?(Illustration)
January 24, 2005... In our page 1 M&A recap, DeSilva & Phillips managing partner Reed Phillips notes that healthy stock values are often precursor to idle companies coming back into M&A markets as buyers. If so, 2005 could see some of our public B2B players--who...

CMP Report: Tech Ad Tumble Is Tougher On Consumer Press Than B2B.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... The year just passed wasn't great for high-tech print advertising by any measure, but according to ad-page figures compiled for CMP Media by IMS The Auditor and released last week by CMP parent United Business Media, B2B fared better than...

B2B New Media: Trade-Show Force Cygnus Turns Investment Power to the Web.
January 31, 2005... A decade into the Internet's short, checkered history, trade-show dynamo Cygnus Business Media thinks now is the right time to start pumping money into this thing. To be sure, the company has had a firm presence online for years, including one...

B2B Awards: IDG Notches 10 Neal Nods from ABM.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... It's been a good week for International Data Group (notwithstanding the southward-bound high-tech advertising figures charted above). Not only was founder/chairman Pat McGovern feted by Magazine Publishers of America (see page 6) and several of...

Winning on the Web: Six B2Bs Make the Grade in min's b2b "Best of the Web" Awards.
January 31, 2005... As we often note in these pages, many B2B publishers are reaping big rewards by shifting some emphasis--and expertise--toward Web versions of their information products and resources. And it isn't just the bare-bones, no-frills style that once...

B2B Boxscores (November 2004): 1) Nice November Loosens the Noose on Broadcast/Video Sector.
January 31, 2005... Given the way that TV audiences (indeed, media audiences of all types) have splintered, it's a wonder that advertising damage isn't worse in our Broadcast/Video sector. But the field has held its own through mid-fourth quarter 2004, with a...

B2B Boxscores (November 2004): 2) Will Soaring Fed Spending Beef Up Government Books in Bush's Second Term?
January 31, 2005... With government spending spiraling out of control (by an anti-spending administration, no less), reason might suggest that would be good news for the many companies trying to soak up their share of the largesse. But the adspending numbers for...

Boxscores (November 2004).(Illustration)
January 31, 2005... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - November 2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 Advanced Imaging ...

...As Long As Spam Restrictions Don't Poleax E-mail Marketing.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... According to Cygnus VP/interactive sales Paul Andrews, B2B is starting to experience the same shift of marketing budgets toward online media that consumer publishing witnessed in the past year. "We're getting requests we never saw before," he...

BPA Rules Report: Hansen Gives New Digital Requirements a Clearer Focus.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... People don't always seem to quite understand BPA Worldwide rules changes, and that group may include us. Following our recent story on BPA rules changes on the reporting of digital editions (min's b2b, 1/17/05), BPA president Glenn Hansen says...

B2B People on the Move.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... Ex-McKinsey-ite Tad Smith was promoted to executive VP of Reed Business Information, where he remains president of the media division and CEO of Reed Construction Data. Smith arrived at RBI--then known as Cahners Publishing--five years ago as...

B2B Stockwatch: Jupiter Starts Reversing Early Jitters.(Illustration)
January 31, 2005... Based on Thursday's Market Close (1/27/05) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. YTD %Chg Dow Jones & Co. DJ 39.19 -4.74% -8.99% Elsevier N.V. ENL 27.14 2.80% ...