NIBM sells Great Communicator to Wicks. (Acquisitions).Earlier this month Wicks Business Information LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (WBI (WeB Intermediaries) A technology from IBM that provides a framework for intermediate processing between the user's browser and the Web server. WBI provides a middleware standard that can be used for password and privacy management, for transcoding from one format to ) acquired the newsletter Great Communicator from National Institute of Business Management National Institute of Business Management can mean:
NIBM National Institute of Banking Management (India) ). Alexandria, Virginia-based Briefings Publishing Group, part of the Management Information Division of WBI, will take over subscription responsibility for the publication. In announcing the acquisition, Michelle S. Cox, executive vice president and group publisher of WBI (and a former executive at NIBM), said, "We are pleased to acquire Great Communicator and believe it to be a perfect match with one of our finest publications, Communication Briefings." WBI, an affiliate of The Wicks Group of Companies LLC based in Fairfield, Conn., has continued pursuing a vigorous acquisition program while M & A activity in the industry has generally slowed down with the economy. In September WBI acquired VentureOne from Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. (NL/NL 9/30/01). In July it bought the remaining assets of The Economics Press Inc. (NL/NL 7/31/01). And earlier it had acquired Asset Alternatives and Georgetown Publishing (NL/NL 1/31/01). |
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