CMP Media Acquires EMAP's U.K. Networking and Enterprise Computing Titles
Posted on December 17, 1997
CMP Media Inc. has entered into an agreement, effective January 1, 1998, to acquire the London-based enterprise computing and networking publications of EMAP Computing. Included in the acquisition are the weekly newspaper Network Week, the monthly magazine Network World, and EMAP's 50-percent stake in the biweekly U.K. edition of InformationWeek, which was launched earlier this year as a joint venture between EMAP and CMP.
To head up CMP's U.K. operations, Leeds named 13- year CMP veteran and industry visionary E. Drake Lundell Jr. to fill the new position of Senior Vice President/Managing Director, United Kingdom.
The U.K. edition of InformationWeek, like its CMP sister publications in the United States, France and Germany, is aimed at technology and business decision makers involved in enterprise computing.
Network Week is a weekly newspaper for networking professionals. It has a circulation of more than 42,000 purchase decision makers responsible for managing enterprise networking solutions in large and medium companies throughout the United Kingdom.
Network World is a monthly lab and tutorial-oriented magazine dealing with key technology and product issues for an audience of 38,000 subscribers responsible for purchasing and implementing networking hardware and software in their companies.
