Min's B to B articles from November 2005

Min's B to B archives from November 2005

M&A Monitor: In The Life Of Reilly, Longtime Randall CEO Leads Management Buyout Of 'bama b2b.
November 7, 2005... In the recent past, many management-led b2b buyouts have been spearheaded by lifetime employees cobbling together financial packages to buy incremental properties from large parent companies seeking to refocus on core assets. That is one...

Capitalizing On New Media's Affordable Niche Potential: CMP's News Show: No Jon Stewart, But It Doesn't Have To Be.
November 7, 2005... It's good to see the tech boys having a little fun with digital media, and we have to hand it to CMP Media's daily video streaming feature, "The News Show," for making the front pages of the TechWeb, InformationWeek and NetworkComputing Web...

b2b Boxscores (September): Construction Books Build A Better Tomorrow.
November 7, 2005... The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and others are filling up with stories about assorted government contractors spending heavily to keep themselves in the post-hurricane season Gulf Coast rebuilding loop. And many in the...

Boxscores (September 2005): 1) September Dismembers Parts Of Developer/Tech Fold.
November 7, 2005... Television sports analysts always are talking about team momentum and the roles it plays in a game's outcome. But sports are hardly the only arena in which big mo' matters. For a lot of publishers who have had up-and-down years, for...

Boxscores (September 2005): 2) Government Books Tune Up The Band After A Booming September.
November 7, 2005... After putting up some big-time plus numbers in September, many of the books in our Government sector are breaking into a resounding chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again." Even though September issues would have been too early to book...

Boxscores (September 2005): Healthcare Group May Soon Need Prescriptive Medicine As Page Drought Worsens.
November 7, 2005... In recent years, companies as diverse as CMP Media and Advanstar Communications have staked a fair part of their futures on investments in healthcare media. There are lots of reasons to suppose that those investments will pay off handsomely...

b2b Boxscores (September): Automotive Ad Drain Helps Explain Why Primedia May Split.
November 7, 2005... If the numbers charted below are any indication, it's not too hard to figure out why Primedia, powered as it is by auto enthusiast media, is thinking of splitting off and getting out. Company principals are said to be alarmed over continued...

Ad Categories (September): Key Sectors Are Holding Steady But Gaining Little Ground At The Three-Quarter Pole.
November 7, 2005... In the recent Breeder's Cup and other big races, bettors want to be riding a horse with some power in the stretch that can start turning on the jets somewhere near the three-quarter pole. That's sort of like what b2b media executives like to...

Shakespeare Should Have Had An Agent.
November 7, 2005... Business-to-business executives who think they have intellectual property problems in today's digital free-for-all should consider the case of William Shakespeare, widely deemed to be the best playwright who ever lived. In an interesting...

B2B People on the Move.
November 7, 2005... Maria Molland joined Dow Jones & Co. last Tuesday (Nov. 1) as general manager of MarketWatch.com, which includes the destination site, BigCharts.com, search401k, Virtual Stock Exchange, and a newsletter business. She had been with Yahoo!...

b2b Stockwatch: One Week Of Ups Not Enough To Reverse Many YTD Downs.
November 7, 2005... Based on Thursday's Market Close (11/3/05) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. Dow Jones & Co. DJ 35.42 6.65% Elsevier N.V. ENL 27.79 3.62% JupiterMedia Corp.1 JUPM 15.86 ...

Tad Smith Tapped for RBI's CEO Suite As Reed's Casella Goes Global.(Reed Business Information)(Chief Executive Officer)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Reed Business is going global, and Jim Casella is going with it. In a nod of approval to his four-year run as CEO of Reed Business Information here in the states, Casella last Wednesday (November 9) was elevated to vice chairman of Reed...

Top Management Meeting: Growing Sense That 'Some of This Stuff May Finally Be Paying Off'.
November 14, 2005... B2B publishing executives gathering in Chicago this week may not exactly be ready to strike up the band in a rousing chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again." After all, advertising pages are still an issue in many quarters, postage and paper...

Steve Smith on New Media Boxscores (September): TV, Money, and Search Drive the 'B2B-Balls' Back to the Web.
November 14, 2005... After a better-than-usual summer (August traffic was particularly strong this year), business information kept the momentum in September with solid gains for many sites and double-digit hikes for some. For the consumer side, Paris Hilton and...

B2B Boxscores (September): Foodservice Fold Stays Flat As A Pancake.
November 14, 2005... Feeding the world--whether it be by growing, processing, manufacturing, delivering, or serving food--is a big business, and it takes a lot to move the needle. And so it is with our Foodservice Boxscore group, whose 29 titles make it the...

B2B Boxscores (September): Dial Tone Keeps Fading As Telecom Remains Stuck on Hold.
November 14, 2005... In our last look at Telecommunications Boxscores (min's b2b, 10/31/05), we noted that August's -15.70% revenue drop, while regretable, was "relatively tame" compared with July's -25.30% jolt. Well, things got a little better in September--a...

B2B People on the Move.
November 14, 2005... Jim Casella last week was named vice chairman of Reed Business and will concentrate more fully on global expansion, particularly in China, where Reed has been very active in recent years. Casella (ex-PennNet/International Data Group) had...

Amid Brewing Shareholder Revolt, VNU Bids Adieu to IMS Health Plan.
November 21, 2005... When we spoke to him recently about third-quarter mergers and acquisitions activity (min's b2b, 10/24/05), Whitestone Communications president Baran Rosen said he felt VNU's pending acquisition of healthcare data powerhouse IMS Health was in...

New Media: 70-Years Young New Equipment Digest Makes Its Web Move.
November 21, 2005... When Penton Media soft-launched its fully re-designed and re-cast NewEquipment.com several months ago, its referrals from Google plummeted from 2,000 a month to 250. This is the way of an Internet where search is the platform's primary...

b2b Boxscores (September): Big September Puts Banking/Finance Books Back in the Money.
November 21, 2005... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-September 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 ABA Banking Journal (Simmons...

B2B Boxscores (September):Bumpy (But Sometimes Exhilarating) Ride for Travel Continues Into Fourth Quarter.
November 21, 2005... Travel has had an up-and-down year all the way through. Indeed, it's almost the nature of that business--subject as it is to so many outside influences completely beyond its control--to be chronically in either up- or down-cycles. It also...

The Wandering Eye: Seen (and Not Seen) at ABM's Top Management Meeting.
November 21, 2005... Seen: New members galore. For instance, Ted Jackson, editor/publisher of Addiction magazine (devoted to treatment therapies) was logging his first TMM in quest of new ideas for his thoroughly unique project. He was just one of 40...

b2b Boxscore (September): Engineering Still Seeking the Right Solution After - 10% $$$ Black September.
November 21, 2005... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-September 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) ...

Boxscores (September 2005): Recent Gains Narrow Computing Sector's YTD Losses.(Illustration)
November 21, 2005... COMPUTING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-September 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Baseline (Ziff Davis) ...

B2B People on the Move.
November 21, 2005... A reorganization of TechTarget's media markets has made executive VP Kevin Beam head of all seven TT media groups (Storage, Security, Windows, CIO Decisions, Networking, Application Development, and Enterprise Applications). At the same...