ROGERS MEDIA ACQUIRES "PHYSICIANS FINANCIAL NEWS".Rogers Media Rogers Media Inc is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., which owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications. Rogers Media Inc. (Toronto, ON), a division of Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RCI) is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Edward S. , has acquired Physicians Financial News (PFN PFN Page Frame Number PFN Pulse Forming Network PFN Panama City, FL, USA (Airport Code) PFN Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN Pooping Friends Network PFN Physical File Name (grid computing) ) magazine from single-title publisher PFN, Inc. (Secaucus, NJ). No terms of the deal were given. PFN was established in 1983 and is published 16 times a year. It has a controlled circulation of 130,000 primary care physicians in the U.S. Editorial focuses on personal and professional money management as well as practice management issues. The title was acquired by PFN from McGraw-Hill in the mid-1990's. Rogers said the purchase is part of its "planned expansion into the $1.7 billion U.S. healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. information and communications market." Rogers' Healthcare & Financial Publishing president James Hall said that "central to this important acquisition is the appointment of Frank Lederer as executive vice president of PFN." The presence of Lederer will help "enable us to bring a new level of service to U.S. physicians and pharmaceutical marketers," Hall said. Earlier this year, Rogers Media also acquired Heating, Plumbing and Air Conditioning magazine from HPAC HPAC Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago) HPAC Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning HPAC Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability HPAC High-Pressure Air Compressor HPAC Health Promotion Access Catalogue (UK) , Inc. (Toronto, ON). |
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