Two veteran publishing executives buy Buyers Laboratory Inc.Buyers Laboratory Inc Buyers Laboratory Inc is a company which provides information on the imaging industry. It was founded in 1961 by the late Arthur Kallet, the co-founder and 20-year head of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine (BLI is not affiliated with Consumers Union). . has been acquired by Mark Lerch and Michael Danziger, veteran publishing executives with extensive entrepreneurial experience. Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI BLI Buyers Laboratory Inc BLI BirdLife International BLI Budget Line Item BLI Blue Ling BLI Busy Lamp Indicator (VoIP) BLI Bellingham, WA, USA - Bellingham International (Airport Code) ) was established in 1961 and has become the nation's leading source for unbiased and reliable product testing, comprehensive test reports, specification guides, product databases, and consulting services to the digital imaging marketplace. Terms of deal were not disclosed. BLI was represented by New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based Whitestone Communications, Baran Rosen, president. Burt Meerow, who sold the business to Danziger and Lerch, will stay on with the business in an advisory capacity following the closing. "BLI has been a family to me and it was a difficult decision to sell the business," Meerow said. "I've given it the better part of my life and I would like to enjoy my semi-retirement knowing that the business has been placed in capable hands." Lerch and Danziger helped form IDD (1) (International Direct Dial) Long distance dialing between countries without operator intervention. Also known as international standard dialing (ISD). Information Services See Information Systems. in 1984, a provider of financial information data, news and services, which was sold to Extel Financial in 1986. They founded Rand Data in 1987 and together with Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings acquired Securities Data in 1988. Thomson acquired Rand Data and its interest in Securities Data in 1991, and Danziger and Lerch stayed on at Thomson as senior executives running major divisions of Thomson Financial. Buyers Laboratory, 20 Railroad Ave., Hackensack, NJ 07601, 201-488-0404 Whitestone, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, #1200, New York, NY, 212-957-7100 |
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