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Rogers Media purchases "Quebec Pharmacie" from Pharmarketing.


Rogers Publishing (Toronto, ON), a division of 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. , has acquired Quebec Pharmacie magazine from PharMarketing Inc. (Montreal, PQ). No terms of the deal were given.

The acquired title was established in 1953 and is published ten times a year for 8500 pharmacists and related pharmaceutical professionals in Quebec. The French-language magazine's main editorial focus is on clinical information and continuing education continuing education: see adult education.
continuing education
 or adult education

Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904).
 with additional information on treatments, new technologies and products, and industry news. Rogers said the purchase of the publication is a "logical extension" to its Pharmacy Group publishing unit, the producer of l'actualite pharmaceutique, Pharmacy Post and Pharmacy Practice Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists.

Areas of pharmacy practice include:
  • Disease-state management
 magazines.

In a statement, Rogers senior vice president John Milne John Milne (1850 – 31 July 1913[1]) was the English geologist and mining engineer who invented the seismograph. Japan (1875-1895)
Milne was professor of mining and geology at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo (from 1886 the Faculty of
 said the addition of the title "enable Rogers to more fully serve the needs of the Canadian pharmacy community, in French and in English. It's a natural and logical brand extension."

Rogers Publishing produces a wide range of trade magazines and related information products through its Media Information Network and its Retail, Industry, Marketing, Meetings & Travel, Medical Communications, Quebec Medical, Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 and Pharmacy Groups. The company also produces almost 15 consumer magazines, including Maclean's and Canadian Business.
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Date:Oct 31, 2004
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