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Advance Magazine Group Announces New Fairchild Bridal Group.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004

The Conde Nast Bridal Group and Fairchild Publications' Elegant Bride This article is about the female participant in a wedding. For other uses, see Bride (disambiguation).

A bride is a female participant in a wedding ceremony: a woman about to be married, currently being married, or, in some uses, very recently married.
 are being joined together to create the new Fairchild Bridal Group, it was jointly announced today by Charles H. Townsend, President and C.E.O. of Conde Nast and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 of the Advance Magazine Group (AMG AMG All Music Guide (music website)
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), and Mary G. Berner, President and C.E.O. of Fairchild. The change is effective immediately. All of the bridal properties will now be integrated into one unit.

"The integration of AMG's national bridal magazines, regional bridal magazines, and bridal websites into one operation as the Fairchild Bridal Group is a logical move for AMG that enables us to use our management talent more effectively," Mr. Townsend said.

The editors-in-chief and publishers of the bridal magazines will continue in their positions: Millie Martini Bratten as the Editor-in-Chief of BRIDE'S; Antonia van der Meer Van der Meer is a Dutch surname that simply means the phrase 'from the lake' in English. Many years ago, descendants would have lived from a lake in the Netherlands which is how the name first originated.  as Editor-in-Chief of Modern Bride and Modern Bride Connections; Margaret Kennedy as the Editor-in-Chief of the recently relaunched Elegant Bride; Nina Lawrence as Vice President and Publisher of BRIDE'S, Modern Bride, and Modern Bride Connections; Andrew Amill as Publisher of Elegant Bride. Editorially, they will report to Patrick McCarthy Patrick McCarthy is the name of a number of people.
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, Chairman and Editorial Director of Fairchild; all operations and advertising business staff will report to Ms. Berner.

"Fairchild is ideally situated to be the home for the new integrated bridal group," Ms. Berner said. "Fairchild is already handling classified advertising sales for all the bridal magazines, and when we launched Elegant Bride, the Conde Nast Bridal Group's Internet division created ElegantBride.com for us. The success of these integration steps represents only a fraction of the potential that we will have when we put together all our bridal assets under one roof."

Fairchild Publications has previously announced that it will be moving into its new offices at 750 Third Avenue this fall. The new Fairchild Bridal Group will be moving there at the same time; until then, the bridal magazines will remain where they are.

The Advance Magazine Group includes Conde Nast Publications, Fairchild Publications, Golf Digest Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Advance Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf.  Companies, Parade Publications, and the Shared Services Center Shared Services Center is the entity responsible for the execution and the handling of specific operational tasks Accounting, human resources, payroll, IT, legal, compliance, purchasing, security.  in Delaware.
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