Min's B to B articles from October 2006

Min's B to B archives from October 2006

Vance to Put 'More Muscle' Behind Digital Innovation.(Vance Publishing )(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Last week, Vance Publishing announced an organizational restructuring. The goal: to quickly develop new products that are not dependent on print advertising revenue and then to nurture these products to double-digit growth rates within the...

Civil Engineering Space: B2B Publisher Crushes Trade Association Book...Yet Again.
October 2, 2006... Complete reversals of fortune in tough two-book niche market competition are rare. CE News, which had 176.18 ad pages through July 2005 was trailing the trade association book, Civil Engineering (231.55 pages), by 55 pages at this time last...

Supermarket Sweeps: A Look Down the Aisle.
October 2, 2006... Constant new product launches by companies such as Kraft keep the grocery retail trades fat with ad pages. Bad news for industry is that as of Thursday, September 28, E. Coli-contaminated bags of spinach had killed three people in the US and...

July a Tough Month Across Telecom Board.
October 2, 2006... TELECOMMUNICATIONS AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Cabling Installation &...

IDG's Infoworld Sees Early Summer Surge.
October 2, 2006... COMPUTING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Baseline (Ziff Davis) ...

KBB Creeping up on KBDN.(Kitchen and Bath Design News )(Kitchen and Bath Business )
October 2, 2006... The boom in the kitchen and bath remodeling market has been paralleled by the increase in ad pages in the past few years. Projected growth for the industry will not break records, but will mirror ad page growth in the coming...

Prism's Broadcast Engineering Rockets Through July.
October 2, 2006... BROADCAST/VIDEO AD PAGES AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2006/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Broadcast Engineering...

Quick View: Heather Mikisch, publisher of Managing Automation.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Heather Mikisch, publisher of Thomas Publishing's Managing Automation, named her 19 month old daughter Carly, after the president and CEO of Thomas Publishing, Carl Holst-Knudsen. This was no isolated act of extreme company loyalty or...

Ziff Davis Buyers' Guide: Study of Building Qualified Leads Online.
October 2, 2006... Barry Harrigan, vice president focusing on digital media, and Ziff Davis had a vision about the IT market: digital content--professional and vendor provided--would become more and more important in CIO decision making and buying. At the same...

News and Notes.
October 2, 2006... SIPA Taps Experienced Association Head Consequent to last October's announcement to retire, Patti Wysocki stepped down at the end of September from her position as executive director. She will be succeeded by Kerry Stackpole. Wysocki was...

VNU Group Puts BME Into Play.(VNU Business Media)(Business Media Europe)(Brief article)
October 9, 2006... Possible Sale Does Not Violate 'Significant Changes' Clause Confirming rumors that have been circulating for weeks, VNU announced on October 2 that they were "exploring strategic alternatives" for Business Media Europe, VNU Business...

Prism Slims Shared Services To The Tune Of 56.(Prism Business Media )
October 9, 2006... Prism Business Media has decided to cut 56 positions, primarily from its shared services department, and also a few from production and IT. Most of the positions that are being eliminated are in Overland Park, Kansas and in Indianapolis,...

Building The FierceMarkets Empire, One E-Letter At A Time.
October 9, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor Five years ago, FierceMarkets started with one email newsletter-- FierceWireless--during an economic and trade publishing downturn. Their philosophy: parachute a scalable, relatively-easy-to-produce...

Double Digit Development For Some Developer Pubs.(BZ Media SD Times)(Xplain's MacTech)
October 9, 2006... Three developers books jump off the chart: CMP's Embedded Systems Design, Xplain's MacTech, and BZ's SD Times. Embedded Systems Design ESD has repositioned itself since October of last year. It had been known as Embedded Systems...

B2B M&A Eclipses $3 Billion In Q's 1-3.
October 9, 2006... The large number of huge private equity raises combined with the amount of investors looking to make exits and the number of B2B companies looking for buyers has resulted in a year frothing with M&A activity. Add that to the normal frenzy of...

Travel Agent Trades Book Trips To Big Folios Despite Web Competition.
October 9, 2006... The three largest pubs in our travel channel are travel agent magazines-- still clicking despite airline commission cuts and the Internet revolution, which made it possible for average Joes to book complex vacations at a supposed discount....

Industry Factors Explain Commonwealths Up And Down Numbers.
October 9, 2006... Commonwealth Business Media was acquired by United Business Media this summer (min's b2b 7/10). Their magazines in the relatively flat transport channel (down 2.64% year-to-date) are up and down; specifically, Gulf Shipper is up 15.59% in ad...

News And Notes.
October 9, 2006... Top Level Summer Revamp At Advanstar On July 28, Dave Montgomery, the long-time CFO for Advanstar, ended his tenure; Ted Alpert's began. According to Joe Loggia, Advanstar's president and CEO, Montgomery had served the company well, but...

Musical Management Chairs.(CMP Technology)
October 16, 2006... Uphoff Back At CMP, Kilcullen Up At VNU, Patterson To Pursue Other Opportunities Tony Uphoff, now-ex-publisher of the VNU Business Media crown jewel, The Hollywood Reporter, will be CMP Technology's new president of the business...

Malkin Restructures, Morris Moves On.(Jim Malkin)(Bruce Morris )(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... SourceMedia's CEO, Jim Malkin, has decided to restructure the company's management to pursue SourceMedia's e-media and database goals. SourceMedia announced this week that Bruce Morris will be leaving his position as president of...

Gov Trades Insulated From Recent Hill Scandals.
October 16, 2006... A year full of scandals among the elected on Capitol Hill, capped by the most recent and humiliating allegations of sexual predation (Mark Foley, republican of Florida), has some B2C government books, like The National Journal and The Hill,...

Telemarketers Feeling The Squeeze.
October 16, 2006... For a niche with a lot of money behind it, call center pubs aren't doing so well this year. CC is down in ad pages 18.01% year-to-date, and CIS is down in ad pages 12.19% year-to-date. The customer interaction industry (aka, call center...

Healthcare IT Race Wide Open.
October 16, 2006... Less than 10% of total physician practices have implemented the use of electronic health records, according to Craig Roth, publisher of Vendome's Healthcare Informatics (down 18.60% in ad pages year-to-date). "Doctors are sometimes...

PCWorld Gets Flat, Personal, And Usable.
October 16, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor In what IDG's PCWorld calls its most significant site redesign since 2000, PCWorld.com unveiled a streamlined but more magazine-like look and feel over the summer. Trying to stuff reviews,...

This Ain't Your Daddy's Farm: Digital Solutions For The Agworld.(AgWeb.com)
October 16, 2006... One unlikely success story that has come out of the struggle for B2B media companies to monetize the tremendous opportunities presented by the Internet is the accomplishments of e-media pioneers in the agriculture space. According to our...

Television Broadcast Has New Lease On Life.
October 16, 2006... Last June, Television Broadcast was the third player in a three-book market, an untenable position, according to Doug Krainman, vice president and group publisher of the video division at NewBay Media, LLC--which, until recently, was CMP...

News And Notes.
October 16, 2006... Reinhardt Lands Back In The Biz At Berkery & Noyes, Co. Jeff Reinhardt, ex-publisher and executive vice president at Prism Business Media's marketing group (min's b2b of 5/29), has been hired as a managing director at New York-based media...

Moves At Fairchild.
October 23, 2006... Coincides With Upcoming Divestiture Since late June, Conde Nast's Fairchild's Supermarket News, Home Furnishing's News, and InFurniture have been up for sale (min's b2b of 6/19). Life goes on, however, at the newly formed Fairchild...

Variety 3.0 Bows; Hopes For Hefty Cume.
October 23, 2006... The third major reincarnation of Variety.com went live on October 15. The new site is sleeker, more intuitive, and has an updated look, but, according to Charlie Koones, prexy (in Variety speak) and publisher of the Variety group, the site...

min's b2b's Executive Conversation: M&A Trends.
October 23, 2006... We used an excerpt from last week in min's b2b to open a conversation on M&A strategy: Jeff Reinhardt, new managing partner at Berkery & Noyes, hopes to "intelligently change the landscape of the media marketing information business...

SEMA News Motors Along.
October 23, 2006... SEMA News, the publication for the Specialty Equipment Market Association and the annual Vegas-based SEMA Show, has just closed its biggest issue ever, according to Peter MacGillivray, publisher of SEMA News. November is typically a big...

GP's/Publishers Credit Highline For Financial Books' Success.
October 23, 2006... Spire Capital-held Highline media owns three books we follow in the banking and finance channel: Futures, Research, and Wealth Manager. Totaling the three pubs' ad pages numbers, we see that they are up from 753.96 in 2005 to 762.49 in 2006...

Tough 2005 For Steel Equals Big 2006 For W&C.
October 23, 2006... A major steel shortage in 2005 hurt the domestic steel framing manufacturing industry. Much steel was being diverted to a construction boom in China. Some manufacturers were not even able to meet the demand of their clients. All of this led to...

QuickView.
October 23, 2006... Scott McKenzie, group editorial director at Billboard Scott McKenzie, group editorial director at VNU Business Media's Billboard, is not, so far as he knows, getting a promotion just yet. His boss, John Kilcullen, had been president of...

Is It Time For Vertical?
October 23, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor So, here is the theory: as search becomes the de facto interface of the Web, users become both more savvy about using the query box and more demanding about the precision of the results. It is not just...

News & Notes.
October 23, 2006... Custom Publisher Invades Mag World Custom publisher, McMurry, Inc., recently completed a job for The Ritz- Carlton Hotel Co. and its partners; nothing out of the ordinary. What was startling about this custom job was that Lucy Liu,...

McGraw-Hill Sheds 600 In 3rd Quarter.
October 30, 2006... 100 More Layoffs To Come In The 4th Massive B2B and B2C publisher The McGraw-Hill Companies announced in its lengthy third quarter earnings report the cutting of 600 positions, costing the company $15.4 million (pre-tax, and $9.7 million...

Penton Auction Intensifies, Bidder Revealed.
October 30, 2006... The second round in the much-discussed auction of Penton by ABRY partners, its private equity owner, will come to a close today (October 30). Teams of bankers have been working around the clock for the various bidders, who are, according to...

Marketing Across Brands: The Penton EOEM Group.
October 30, 2006... What's going on at Penton's electronics original equipment manufacturing market (EOEM) group? The three print pubs we follow in the group are EEPN (product book, down 13.22% year-to-date), Electronic Design (down 5.20% year-to- date), and...

Modern Bakers React To Atkins.(Dr. Atkins )
October 30, 2006... Dr. Atkins had many in the domestic bread and baking industries worried about the future. As it turned out, however, the Atkins diet (no carbs, high fat and protein, for those of you who have never had to fight the battle of the bulge) gave...

CIO Siblings Have Healthy Rivalry.
October 30, 2006... There was a time when the bulk of a CIO's work was finding the right technology to optimize business functions. Of course, the CIO still does this, but with the maturation of the Web and new technology paradigms popping up weekly, the CIO...

September Web Traffic Brings An Early Chill.
October 30, 2006... The return to normal work routines brought surprisingly uneven traffic results in September. Many sites retreated after an unusually strong summer, so the B2B URLs we track did not advance as a group in September. Seasonality was...