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Mergers & Acquisitions, 2000

MAGAZINE/PROPERTY
SELLER
BUYER
DATE REPORTED CLOSED
Time Warner Time Warner America Online, Inc. 1/00
Telemedia Publishing Telemedia Communications GTC Transcontinental Group 1/00
The Surfaces Show World Floor Covering Association Hanley-Wood 1/00
Los Angeles Magazine Walt Disney Company Emmis Communications 1/00
Dow Jones Financial Pub. Corp Dow Jones & Co. Wicks Business Information LLC 1/00
Garden DesignSaveur
Friends
Meigher Communications L.P. World Publications 1/00
Thunder Press Inc.Includes titles:
Thunder PressAsphalt Angels
Thunder Press Inc. Ehlert Publishing Group Inc. 1/00
Strategy Plus Inc. Yale Brozan Theglobe.com 1/00
Chips & Bits Inc.      
Arthur Frommers Budget Travel XXVII Communications LLC Newsweek Inc. 1/00
Baby Faire Inc. Kim Whittaker Primedias American Baby Group 1/00
Out Out Publishing Inc. Liberation Publications 2/00
Soccer Jr. Triplepoint Inc. Scholastic Inc. 2/00
The Sporting News Times Mirror Corp. Vulcan Ventures 2/00
Curtin & Pease/PENECO Penton Media Inc. Marino Family Ventures 3/00
Media Publishing International LLC Media Publishing International LLC Cahners Business Information 3/00
Competitive Media Reporting VNU Taylor Nelson Sofres plc 3/00
Pet Business Magazine Pet Business Inc. Macfadden Communications Group 3/00
CMD Group CMD Group Cahners Business Information 3/00
Liberation Publications Liberation Publications PlanetOut 3/00
Mortgage Publishing Group Mortgage Publsihing Group Pfingsten Publishing LLC 3/00
Quest Chris Meigher 3/00
Modern Tire Dealer Magazine Bill Communications (VNU) Bobit Publishing Co. 4/00
Auto Trim & Restyling News Bill Communications (VNU) Bobit Publishing Co. 4/00
Truck Accessory News Bill Communications (VNU) Bobit Publishing Co. 4/00
Ziff-Davis Publishing, includes titles:Smart BusinessPC Magazine
Yahoo! Internet Life
Interactive Week
PC Week
Smart Reseller
Ziff-Davis Inc. James F. Dunning, Willis Stein & Partners 4/00
Entrepreneur.com Entrepreneur Media Inc. eCost.com 4/00
Cygnus Business Media Gerry Hogan and F. Blair Schmidt-Fellner CommerceConnect Media 5/00
UAP Inc. United News and Media PLC Trader Publishing 5/00
Springhouse Corporation Reed Elsevier Wolters Kluwer 5/00
Springhouse Corp. Reed Elsevier Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science 5/00
Intl Travel Services Ltd. Intl Travel Services Ltd. Grand Adventures Tour & Travel Publishing Corp. 5/00
Poker Digest Poker Digest LLC Casino Journal Publishing Group 5/00
Winter Sports Film & Video Production Co. (Snoworld) Warren Miller Entertainment Times Mirror 5/00
Inc. Goldhirsch Group Gruner + Jahr 6/00
ELogic eLogic Cahners Business Information 6/00
Cowboys & Country Magnolia Media Group Reid Slaughter 6/00
ZDNet and Computer Shopper Magazine Softbank Corporation CNET Networks 7/00
Miller Freeman USA United News & Media VNU NV 7/00
Advanstar Communications and Hive4.com Hellman& Friedman Capital Partners DLJ Merchant Banking Partners 8/00
The Wedding Channel/Advance/Conde Nast   Advance/Conde Nast 8/00
Duke Communications Duke Communications Penton Media 8-9/00
Streaming Media Inc. First Conferences Penton Media 9/00
Federal Computer Week and Civic.com IDG 101communications 9/00
Ticker Magazine Individual Investor Group 123Jump.com 9/00
American Spectator American Spectator Educational Foundation Gilder Publishing 9/00
About.com About Inc. Primedia 10/00
Times Mirror Magazines Tribune Company Time Inc. 10/00
Phillips Business Information & Hart Publications Phillips International Inc. VS&A Communications Partners 10/00
Adams Business Medias Power Group Adams Business Media Intertec Publishing 10/00
Kagan World Media Kagan World Media Primedia Inc. 10/00
Executive Recruiter News, as well as 9 newsletters, consulting, 8 directories, 3 magazines, etc Kennedy Information Bureau of National Affairs 11/00-12/00
Disco MagazineEnterese
LatinMusicTrends.com
United Publishers of Florida Big City Radio, Inc. 11/00-12/00
Fast Company Mortimer B. Zuckerman Gruner+Jahr 12/00
Locksmith Publishing Unican Cygnus Business Media  
Custom Communications Partners   Forbes 12/00
Ideals Publications (Ideals Magazine) Ideals Publications    

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