Purchase of newsletter and information properties continues at furious pace.This issue of NL/NL alone reports on five major purchases, with the biggest one being the acquisition of Telecommunications Reports International Inc. by Walters Kluwer for a price reported at around $16 million. But first, let's recap re·cap 1 tr.v. re·capped, re·cap·ping, re·caps 1. To replace a cap or caplike covering on: recapped the bottle. 2. some of the more notable acquisitions in the past twelve months (in addition, of course, to several dozen individual newsletter titles purchased): * Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. bought Capitol Publications from Pearson. * Pearson PLC's Financial Times Group bought Pasha Publications Inc. from Tad (Telephone Answering Device) An answering machine. Sedgwick. * Thompson Corp.'s West Group bought Pearson's FT Tax & Federal Publications. * Time Inc. bought the Institute far Econometric e·con·o·met·rics n. (used with a sing. verb) Application of mathematical and statistical techniques to economics in the study of problems, the analysis of data, and the development and testing of theories and models. Research, which it added to its Business Information Group. * Kennedy Information bought six newsletters from Remy Publishing. * Haights Cross bought Oakstone Wellness, publisher of Top Health newsletter read by some 1.3 million employees every month. * LRP LRP Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein LRP Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein LRP Loan Repayment Program LRP Linux Router Project LRP Livestock Risk Protection LRP Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy Lrp Leucine-responsive Regulatory Protein Publications bought the 1917-founded Dartnell Corp., with 24 newsletters among its numerous training and motivational resources for business and industry. |
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