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Cygnus to launch "VDV World"; acquires two mags from VNU Business Media.


Cygnus Business Media Cygnus Business Media is an American magazine publisher, internet information developer, exposition management provider and custom marketing services company. It was founded in 1966 with the initial acquisition of Photo Trade News, a magazine founded in 1937 which continues to  (Westport, CT) will begin the publication of VDV VDV Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen
VDV Verband Deutscher Vermessungsingenieure eV (Germany)
VDV Vozdushno-Desantnye Voyska (Russian Federation Airborne Forces)
VDV Voice Data Video
 World magazine with a September/October issue and has acquired two food magazines, including Frozen Food Age and Food Logistics, from VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French)
VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch)
VNU Virtual Network User
 Business Media (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
).

Cygnus said that VDV World (Melville, NY) will be the "first and only" publication exclusively devoted to the information needs of the commercial voice/data/video (VDV) electrical contractor. It will have a controlled circulation of 37,000 commercial communications contractors licensed to install low voltage Low voltage is an electrical engineering term that broadly identifies safety considerations of an electricity supply system based on the voltage used. While different definitions exist for the exact voltage range covered by "low voltage", the most commonly used ones include "mains  applications and structured cabling.

Cygnus president Richard Reiff said "there is a clear need to provide VDV contractors with information and regulations affecting their market." The targeted professionals "require an essential knowledge base like VDV World to help determine trends, upturns and declines in order to make their business successful," Reiff added.

Editorial will include information on the installation of high-tech systems, including cable and fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , governmental guidelines such as OSHA OSHA
n.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a branch of the US Department of Labor responsible for establishing and enforcing safety and health standards in the workplace.
 standards, industry safety issues, networking and new technologies.

Also, Cygnus has acquired Frozen Food Age and Food Logistics magazines and their related Web sites from VNU Business Media (New York). No terms were given. Operations for both titles will move to Melville.

Frozen Food Age is published monthly with a controlled circulation of 17,000 executives in the retail, distribution, warehousing, brokerage and manufacturing sectors of the frozen food industry. Food Logistics is published nine times a year and covers the food logistics and supply chain industry, including material handling, information technology and facility design. It has a controlled circulation of 27,000 executives in the food manufacturing, retailing, whole-saleing, distributing, warehousing and transportation sectors.

Cygnus ceo/president Paul Mackler noted that his company currently serves "nearly 200,000 professional, retailers and manufacturers in the agricultural and food industries" with such titles as Farm Equipment and Feed & Grain and their related events.
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Title Annotation:Cygnus Business Media
Comment:Cygnus to launch "VDV World"; acquires two mags from VNU Business Media.(Cygnus Business Media)(Brief Article)
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Date:May 17, 2002
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