Gartner Group, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Vision Events International, Inc., Producers of RetailVision and VARVision.STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1998--Gartner Group, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :GART GART Phosphoribosylglycinamide Formyltransferase/Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase/Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole Synthetase GART Graphics Address Remapping Table (AGP chipset) GART Graphics Address Relocation Table ) today announced the acquisition of Vision Events International, Inc. of Nashua, NH, producers of the premiere channel events that bring the IT Industry's most powerful retailers, VARs and systems integrators together with the vendors and distributors that are selling through these channels. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. GartnerGroup has acquired six successful events: RetailVision Spring/Fall, RetailVision Europe and VarVision Spring/ Fall and VarVision Europe. RetailVision brings together executive management from vendors and distributors with executive buyers and merchandisers from all the major retail, catalog and e-commerce organizations. VarVision's audience consists of senior executives from the industry's leading VARs and system integrators who deliver networking, Internet and intranet solutions to their Fortune 1000, midsize and small business clients. All of the events provide the participants with a focused, strategic setting in which products, technologies and business strategies are presented to key decision makers in an efficient and effective format. Vision Events has been producing specialized channel business events utilizing this unique, private boardroom format since 1986. The group will operate as 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 the GartnerGroup, remaining at its headquarters in Nashua, NH. "The Vision Events acquisition brings two strategic benefits to GartnerGroup Events: a sophisticated entry into the channel market and events that are conducted on a level playing field See net neutrality. ," said William T. Clifford, GartnerGroup CEO-elect, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "That level playing field is the hallmark of all GartnerGroup events." RetailVision Fall `98 is currently taking place at the Hotel del Coronado The Hotel del Coronado is a luxury hotel in the City of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. in Coronado, California Coronado is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. The population was 24,100 at the 2000 census. Coronado is Spanish for 'the crowned one", and thusly it is nicknamed The Crown City. . VarVision Fall '98 will be held in Century City, California. Additional information about these and other upcoming events can be accessed via the web at www.visionevents.com or by calling 603-577-9856. About GartnerGroup As the world's leading authority on IT, GartnerGroup provides clients with a wide range of products and services in the areas of IT advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal , measurement, research, decision support, analysis and consulting. Founded in 1979, with headquarters in Stamford, Conn., GartnerGroup is at the center of a global community of more than 11,000 client organizations served by analysts in 80 locations worldwide. GartnerGroup's unique capabilities and resources help bring clarity to the direction of the world's hottest and most volatile industry. Additional information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.gartner.com.
CONTACT: Carol Wallace
Gartner Group, Inc.
203-316-3575
carol.wallace@gartner.com
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