CMP Media Inc. and WEKA Launch InformationWeek/Germany Through Joint Venture.

MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 1997--CMP Media Inc. and WEKA Firmengruppe GmbH & Co. KG have joined forces to launch InformationWeek/Germany, the second international version of InformationWeek announced this year.

The German version of InformationWeek, debuting this week with a controlled circulation of 70,000, will target information technology (IT) decision makers whose purchasing responsibilities extend across the enterprise at medium and large companies. The newspapers' audience will include IT managers, system administrators, network administrators, consultants, and systems integrators, as well as IT controllers and CIOs in large companies.

Editorially, the German version of InformationWeek will address the broad range of challenges facing European IT professionals responsible for managing multi-platform, distributed information systems, including the Year 2000 problem. Heinz Peller, former Editor-in-Chief of WEKA's PC Magazin, will lead the editorial team as Editor-in-Chief for the new publication. The Publisher is Thorsten Koester, who holds the same title at Computer Reseller News Germany- -also a joint venture between CMP and WEKA--and who is the Managing Director of CMP-WEKA Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.

With the addition of a new InformationWeek title, advertisers can now target key IT influencers and purchasers in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Korea, Argentina and South Africa, through CMP's network of licensed and joint-ventured InformationWeek publications. Global advertisers will be able to achieve buying efficiencies across CMP's IT network as they already can across a global channel audience, which includes eight editions of Computer Reseller News.

The InformationWeek Germany launch follows on the heels of the January launch of InformationWeek UK, a joint venture with London- based EMAP that reaches a circulation of 100,000, making it the largest IT publication in the UK. In 1994 CMP launched Informatiques Magazine, one of the fastest growing IT publications in France. InformationWeek is also licensed in Korea, South Africa and Argentina.

Launched in 1985, the US edition of InformationWeek now reaches 350,000 qualified IT buyers, the largest circulation in the information systems category, according to Simmons CompPro IV.

With annual revenues of more than DM 650 million, the WEKA Group is the second largest trade publisher in Germany. WEKA owns DMV-Franzis and MagnaMedia, two of the largest high-tech publishers in Germany. MagnaMedia and CMP also formed a joint venture in 1995 to launch Computer Reseller News/Germany.

CMP Media Inc. serves the broad spectrum of builders, sellers and users of technology. Its OEM publications (EE Times, Electronic Buyers' News) reach the builders of technology; its channel publications (Computer Reseller News, VARBusiness, Computer Retail Week) reach the sellers of technology; and its end-user publications (InformationWeek, CommunicationsWeek--becoming InternetWeek on September 1--Network Computing, WINDOWS Magazine and HomePC) reach the buyers of technology. All of CMP's publications and online products can be accessed through the company's TechWeb(R) site on the Web at http://www.techweb.com -0-

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