Alexander Communications and Scientific American make first joint acquisition.A partnership between a pioneering newsletter publisher, Alexander Communications Group Inc. (ACG ACG American College of Gastroenterology; angiocardiography; apexcardiogram. AcG accelerator globulin (coagulation factor V). AcG accelerator globulin (clotting factor V). ) and the magazine firm which publishes Scientific American Scientific American U.S. monthly magazine interpreting scientific developments to lay readers. It was founded in 1845 as a newspaper describing new inventions. By 1853 its circulation had reached 30,000 and it was reporting on various sciences, such as astronomy and (circ. 700,000) has made its first major acquisition. Scientific American Newsletters LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (SAN), jointly owned by the two New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of firms, has acquired the passenger and freight transportation-focused newsletters and marketing research reports of Transport Technology Publishing (TTP TTP (thymidine triphosphate): see thymine. ) of New York. SAN was formed in December December: see month. 1998 to bring "high-quality scientific and technological news and information to business, industrial and technical leaders." The president of SAN is Laurence A. Alexander, secretary-treasurer of Alexander Communications Group, but the ownership and the board of directors of SAN are split equally. ACG has a management contract to produce the publications. Larry and his wife, Shirley, are one of the few husband and wife teams in the newsletter industry. They were founding members of the Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association in 1976 (then called the Newsletter Association). The association named the couple Publishers of the Year in 1993. Their daughter, Margaret DeWitt, joined the company more than ten years ago and is the publisher at SAN. SAN was formed to "bring together the resources of a very substantial magazine publishing company with Alexander Communications Group's capability in the newsletter field to meet a target of producing a large newsletter company in rather short order," Alexander said. TTP titles cover the development, application, funding and regulation of the use of information technology in passenger and freight transportation. The three newsletters acquired by SAN are all twice-monthly and the subscription prices are in the $500 range. The newsletters include Inside ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems), The Intelligent Highway, and Freight E-Commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. News. A fourth newsletter, Rail Systems Technology, was included in the sale but was sold to Trade Press in Milwaukee because it was in the rail industry and "it didn't fit our profile," Alexander said. Also included in the sale was TTP's reference directory of companies in its field and the increasingly active web site for internet delivery of its information. The acquisition brings the number of newsletters now published by SAN to five. In December, SAN launched Fuel Cell Industry Report (12x, $400/year). Last October its first publication, the looseleaf Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is also known as Enterprise Asset Management. A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. , was launched with a subscription price of $250. The sale price was not disclosed. TTP was represented in the transaction by Whitestone Communications Inc. |
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