BPI Communications acquires 1858-founded J Whitaker & Sons Ltd.BPI Communicatons Inc., is a subsidiary of VNU-USA (which also includes VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French) VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch) VNU Virtual Network User Marketing Information, Bill Communications, and SRDS SRDS Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems SRDS Standard Rate and Data Service SRDS Shop Repair Data Sheets ) and publishes such notable titles as Billboard, Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter and Architecture. It recently acquired for an undisclosed sum J Whitaker & Sons Ltd., the U.K. company specializing in information, communications and e-commerce services to the book industry worldwide. Whitaker will continue to operate its two major divisions, Whitaker Business Publishing and Whitaker Information Services See Information Systems. , through its existing management team led by group managing director Martin Whitaker, reporting to Howard Lander BPI's executive vice president and president of its Billboard Group. VNU USA is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Netherland-based VNU, the international publishing and information company with annual revenues of $2.8 billion. Whitaker was represented by The van Tulleken Company, with offices in London and 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 . (BPI Communications is not to be confused with Maryland-based Business Publishers Inc., nor is J Whitaker to be confused with Joel Whitaker's New Jersey-based Whitaker Newsletters Inc.) |
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