DMG MEDIA PURCHASES 25% INTEREST IN WESTERN EXHIBITORS.dmg world media (London), a unit of Daily Mail & General Trust, has acquired a 25% stake in trade show organizer Western Exhibitors (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 , CA) from parent Universal Shows for $10 million. As part of the deal, ding world media has agreed to acquire the remaining 75% of Western in five years.. Universal will continue to manage the shows for the next five years and at its option after that period. Western Exhibitors is the largest producer of gifts shows in the western U.S. and operates six shows a year in San Francisco, Seattle and Portland. dmg said the deal completes a partnership that unites 26 gift industry shows in 12 North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. locations, including 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, Washington, D.C.., Dallas, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and four Canadian cities, with Whereoware.com, a gift industry b2b e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. site. dmg acquired 45% of Whereoware.com and a 25% stake in George Little Management (New York) in November 2000. ding said it has invested over $150 million in the U.S. gift industry in the last two years. |
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