Berkery, Noyes & Co. Advises Reed Elsevier Inc. in the Sale of Marquis Who's Who and Certain National Register Publishing Titles to WL Ross & Co.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2003 Joseph Berkery, President of Berkery, Noyes & Co., announced today that the firm represented Reed Elsevier Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? - News) in its sale of Marquis Who's Who Who’s Who biographical dictionary of notable living people. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 922] See : Fame and certain National Register Publishing titles to WL Ross & Co. Marquis Who's Who, founded in 1899, is the preeminent U.S. publisher of biographical information on notable individuals for reference and consumer markets. Flagship products include Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. National Register Publishing produces specialty directories including The Official Catholic Directory and The Official Museum Directory. The company, which is located in New Providence, New Jersey New Providence is a borough on the northwestern edge of Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on the Passaic River, which forms the county boundary with Morris County. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population was 11,907. , publishes 23 directories. Berkery, Noyes specializes in investment banking for the information, publishing and communications industries. Among the most recent transactions completed by Berkery, Noyes are Pearson's divestiture of Forum to Institute for International Research, ProQuest Company in its purchase of SIRS Publishing, Inc., National Physicians DataSource, Inc. (The Little Blue Book) on its Sale to WebMD Corp, Advanstar Communications' acquisition of HT Magazine from Niche Publishing and Delta Education's acquisition of Educators Publishing Service. Berkery, Noyes & Co. clients range from small firms, often seeking a buyer, to most of the major international information companies, who use the firm's expertise in locating, analyzing and negotiating with acquisition candidates, as well as in managing divestitures. The firm operates with a staff of twenty-two professionals serving the information and publishing industry from offices in 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 , Boston, and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . |
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