Min's B to B articles from July 2006

Min's B to B archives from July 2006

Catalyst Investors Buys Reed Properties, Puts Reiff at the Helm.
July 10, 2006... On Thursday, June 29, min's b2b learned from industry sources including some from Reed Business Information that Catalyst Investors had reached an agreement with RBI on the sale of its Rockaway, N.J. New Products Division. Since then,...

Two Books Lead Developer Channel Higher.(MACTECH and Embedded Systems Programming)(Statistical table)
July 10, 2006... Advertising continues to grow among the developer/technical magazines we track, as year-to-date revenue rose an average of 6.66% through May. But much of that growth is driven by just two magazines--MACTECH and Embedded Systems Programming....

Healthcare Informatics Doesn't Look Healthy.
July 10, 2006... How much worse can things get for Healthcare Informatics? No matter how you look at it, the monthly is the worst performer among the 13 publications we track in the healthcare channel. HI, which is owned by the Medquest Communications...

Building, Blockbusters, and Business-on-Business Bounce Back in May.(Statistical data)
July 10, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Editor Are we warming up for the usual summer wilt of business traffic online? Several segments got a nice spike in May. Not surprisingly, Reed's Variety.com (+24.62% Page Views, +15.91% Unique Visitors) enjoyed...

Search Us!
July 10, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor The importance of digital media in bringing together buyers and sellers cannot be underestimated, according to the recent Harris Interactive/ABM study on the value of B2B media. But what Harris and...

QuickView.(Lori Rosen)(Rosen Group PR Agency)
July 10, 2006... Lori Rosen, Executive Director of the Custom Publishing Council, and President of The Rosen Group PR Agency Lori Rosen started The Rosen Group in 1984 with one client--a client that supported her and her partner through what must have...

The Hollywood Reporter v. Variety in Tombstone Showdown.
July 10, 2006... Aaron Spelling made a lot of tinsel-towners very rich; he passed away on June 18. The following week in The Hollywood Reporter (VNU) and Variety (RBI), prods, prexies, and execs (in Variety speak) paid homage to the world- record-holding...

News and Notes.(United Business Media)(Commonwealth Business Media)(Strategic Research Institute L.P.)
July 10, 2006... UBM Acquires Commonwealth Business Media for $152 Million United Business Media announced its acquisition of Commonwealth Business Media for $152 million on July 5. Richard Mead of JEGI represented Commonwealth in the transaction. Mead...

Penton on the Block; ABRY Exiting B2B.
July 17, 2006... In light of Penton Media's announcement Tuesday afternoon that it has retained Credit Suisse Securities as its financial adviser to explore a possible sale, as well as other strategic alternatives, it seems as if ABRY Partners, the private...

Automotive in Reverse; Gearing up for a Restart?(General Motors Corp.)(Ford Motor Co.)(Statistical table)
July 17, 2006... US auto manufacturers continue reel from nonstop blows: The Deal reported this week that Wall Street portfolio managers who own five-year corporate debt "looking to buy protection against default will likely pay 950 basis points" for both Ford...

State and Local v. the Feds; Government up and Down.
July 17, 2006... Because of protracted debates in Congress over illegal immigration, flag burning and gay marriage, our proxies on Capital Hill did not get around to passing a supplemental appropriations bill to help pay for the war in Iraq. The Army has...

Electronics Books Move Into Negative Territory.
July 17, 2006... Print ad page revenue in electronics magazines slipped in May, falling an average of 7.32% and pushing year-to-date numbers into negative territory. Fourteen of the 24 magazines we track in the channel saw revenue slide in May, one more than...

Building Sector Pushed Lower.(Statistical table)
July 17, 2006... Building and construction magazines saw print ad revenue drop 2.03% on average in May, pushed lower by a 20.04% tumble at the largest magazine in the channel. Much of the change in the channel can be traced to a single magazine-- Hanley...

Ad Pages Relatively Flat--Not Down.(Statistical table)
July 17, 2006... Many sources in the publishing world are pessimistic about the future (and present) of print. Digital advertising and integrated marketing are eating away at the shrinking advertising pie to the detriment of print, is a common line. April's...

News and Notes.(Radio and Records Inc.)(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V)(1105 Media)
July 17, 2006... Radio and Records Acquired and Integrated by VNU VNU has reached an agreement to acquire Radio & Records, Inc., a news and data company for the radio and music industries. R&R operates a portfolio of twelve products, including R&R: The...

Adweek Group Sacks Ten.(Brief article)
July 24, 2006... In a statement released to min's b2b on Friday, July 14, Michael Parker, president of the marketing/media & design group at VNU Business Media, confirmed the layoffs of 10 Adweek group employees, including display and classified sales...

Credit Union Magazines Stay Flat Amid Industry Mergers.(Statistical table)
July 24, 2006... The Credit Union Journal has referred to Harris Simmons as "the long- time credit union nemesis." Simmons, chief executive officer of Zions Bancorp and the leader of the American Bankers Association, earned that enmity by leading a war...

Eye on Commonwealth's Transport Pubs.
July 24, 2006... When United Business Media completes its $152 million purchase of Commonwealth Business Media [see min's b2b 7/10 at minonline.com], the British-based company will inherit a series of transport publications that, at first glance, appear to be...

Computer Market Down--Spirits High at InformationWeek.
July 24, 2006... IT sector employment numbers are up (translation: More readers for computer channel books). According to the US Bureau of Labor, the IT unemployment rate was 2.2% last month--the lowest that it's ever been. Since June 2004, IT employment has...

Media M&A Activity Intensifies in First Half of 2006.
July 24, 2006... In all media M&A, overall transactions and value are up v. last year, according to our media and information M&A chart, powered by information from the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. B2B represents a smaller slice of the pie, but the B2B deals...

Modest Increases for Engineering Books in May.(Statistical table)
July 24, 2006... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-May 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) ...

QuickView.(Michael Miller)(ZDNet Inc.)(Statistical table)
July 24, 2006... Michael Miller, Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis The rumor is that if you are at a cocktail party with Michael Dell, Bill Gates, and Michael Miller, and you want to talk computers--I mean really talk computers--then you should head...

Department of Extensions and Corrections.
July 24, 2006... Nobody is perfect. Even we here at min's b2b make mistakes from time to time. Here are two that demanded correction: In our pharmaceutical boxscore of 7/10, we misprinted the numbers for three publications. Here are the correct figures:...

News and Notes.
July 24, 2006... Soon-to-be ex-Conde Nast-er Dives into B2B Space Peter Armour, senior VP of consumer marketing affairs at the consumer publishing giant Conde Nast, has purchased Industrial Utility Vehicle and the IUV Technology Conference from Webcom...

Canon Folds Micro and CE.
July 31, 2006... Canon Communications has shuttered both Micro Magazine and Compliance Engineering. Micro focused on the semiconductor industry and was published nine times a year. CE covered regulatory compliance for electronic engineers and was published...

Monster M&A Marriages Hurting Wireless Books.
July 31, 2006... M&A is the buzz in the wireless niche of the telecommunications industry. Carrier consolidation has now led to vendor consolidation (remember when Cingular turned blue when it ate AT&T Wireless, or when Sprint absorbed Nextel and its...

Pro AV Continues Climb.
July 31, 2006... Last year it was networkable projectors. This year it's digital signage. To most, "networkable projectors" and "digital signage" might as well be Greek. For the systems integrator sector of the broadcast and video channel, they represent...

Food Stuff: Service/Restaurants--Foodservice Director Rising?
July 31, 2006... Foodservice Director was a magazine that had lost its way. According to vice president and group publisher Scott Allmendinger, even though FD has won almost every independent reader survey, it suffered from the cost-cutting days at VNU. A...

Food Stuff: Processing--Energy Focus.
July 31, 2006... The cost of energy is a constant concern for readers of processing books. Between consumption of steam, electricity and natural gas (not to mention transport costs that all industries face), the sector is facing challenges. Books are feeling...

Making Money Standing Up: Will B2B Advertising Finally Go Vertical?
July 31, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor I have been riding this Web wave for nearly a decade now and have heard the same promise made again and again: The Internet lets us drill into verticals with tremendous efficiencies. Well, maybe. When...

The Marketing Matrix--Vertical Knowledge vs. Horizontal Capabilities.
July 31, 2006... By Jeff Reinhardt, ex-Prism marketing executive and guest columnist, and Jeremy Greenfield, associate editor It is no secret that dollars devoted to advertising in trade publications are shrinking in terms of percentage of advertising...

News and Notes.(Avista Capital Partners has acquired 50% of Thompson Publishing Holding Co., Inc.)(Computerworld tapped for magazine of the year by ASBPE.)
July 31, 2006... Avista Acquires Interest in Thompson Avista Capital Partners announced on July 25 that it has acquired 50% of Thompson Publishing Holding Co., Inc. from DLJ Growth Capital Partners, a Credit Suisse private equity fund for $130 million....