Reed acquires BuyerZone.com; sells Canadian Trade Shows.Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. (RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in ; New York), a unit of Reed Elsevier, has agreed to acquire BuyerZone.com (Waltham, MA), an online lead generation company. No terms of the deal, expected to close at the beginning of the new year, were given. Reed was represented by The Jordan, Edmiston Group (New York). BuyerZone is an online B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business marketplace that links prospective buyers to qualified suppliers of more than 125 business products and service categories, including office and industrial equipment, telecommunications, technology, software services, human resources, financial products and retail services. Reed said that BuyerZone has facilitated more than $5 billion worth of transactions since 2004. Reed also said that the purchase will accelerate RBI's online editorial and marketing growth across numerous industry sectors, while BuyerZone will benefit from RBI's portfolio of web sites, magazines and e-mail marketing businesses. Also, Reed Exhibitions (Norwalk, CT) has sold its Canadian industrial and manufacturing tradeshow portfolio, to The Society of Manufacturing Engineers The Society of Manufacturing Engineers [1] (SME) is dedicated to bringing people and information together to advance manufacturing knowledge. SME is internationally recognized by manufacturing practitioners, companies and other organizations as a source for information, (SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. ; Dearborn, MI) and Vance Publishing Corp. (Lincolnshire, IL), as the final divestiture in its alignment of its business operations in North America. Earlier this year, Reed Exhibitions sold its U.S. manufacturing and industrial tradeshow portfolio, including nine shows to Canon Communications (Los Angeles, CA) in May. SNE SNe Supernovae (astronomy) SNE Sony Corporation (stock symbol) SNE Syndicat National de l'edition (French Publisher's Association) SNE Society for Nutrition Education has purchased Plant Maintenance & Design Engineering, Western Manufacturing Technology Show, Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, Advanced Manufacturing Expo, Montreal Manufacturing Technology, Southwest Ontario Industrial Show, and Canadian Manufacturing Week. Vance Publishing has acquired Woodworking Machinery & Supply Expo and SIBO SIBO Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth SIBO Sixteen Bit Organiser (Psion) SIBO Sanda Island Bird Observatory (Scotland) SIBO Sixteen Bit Organizers , an industrial woodworking show. Related Vance products include the magazines "Wood & Wood Products" and "Custom Woodworking Business," both produced monthly, and "Closets," published six times a year. Related SME assets include the Westec and Eastec manufacturing and metalworking events, FabTech International and the AWS Welding Show. |
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