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VNU sells "Sporting Goods Business" & related properties.


VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French)
VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch)
VNU Virtual Network User
 Business Media (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
) has sold the assets of "Sporting Goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity
commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce

sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport
 Business" and the Sporting Goods Business Group to SportsOneSource Group (Charlotte, NC), an online information source for the sporting goods retail industry. No terms of the deal were given. VNU owns one-third of SportsOneSource Group.

"Sporting Goods Business" was launched over 30 years ago to cover the sporting goods industry. It is published monthly for a controlled circulation of 23,700. The Sporting Goods Business Group also includes "Sporting Goods Dealer," published seven times a year for a controlled circulation of 20,000, "Hunting Business," a quarterly published for 10,000 hunting business professionals and "Outdoor Business," a bimonthly bi·month·ly  
adj.
1. Happening every two months.

2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly.

adv.
1. Once every two months.

2. Twice a month; semimonthly.

n. pl.
 with a controlled circulation of 8000, as well as "Inside Sporting Goods," a daily subscription e-newsletter, and the Elite Running Conference, OB Outlook and the SGB SGB Sozialgesetzbuch (Germany: social legislation)
SGB Standards Generating Body
SGB Super Game Boy
SGB Society of Glass Beadmakers
SGB Student Government Board
SGB Steam Generator Blowdown
SGB Steam Gunboat
 Forum.

The SportsOneSource Group currently has five main business groups, including Media Services, producer of the "Sports Executive Weekly" e-newsletter, "The B.O.S.S. Report," a newsletter covering the bicycle bicycle, light, two-wheeled vehicle driven by pedals. The name velocipede is often given to early forms of the bicycle and to its predecessor, the dandy horse, a two-wheeled vehicle moved by the thrust of the rider's feet upon the ground. , outdoor and snow sports markets, and the recently launched "Specialty Market Retailer" magazine, Market Research, Career Services, Events and Directories.

SportsOneSource Group president/ceo James Hartford said that "VNU has been a strong partner in the continued growth and development of the SportsOneSource platform. This transaction is yet another example of how the two companies are working together to more effectively service the sporting goods industry."
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