Wolters Kluwer continues acquisition binge--Bureau of Business Practice this time.Following the recent purchases of Telecommunications Report International and State Tax Institute (NL/NL 5/99), Wolters Kluwer has entered into an agreement (subject to regulatory review) to acquire leading professional publisher Bureau of Business Practice, an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of Pearson plc. Purchase price is reported to be $16 million, the same as BBP's 1998 sales level. BBP BBP Bruto Binnenlands Product (Dutch) BBP Bauch-Beine-Po (workout) BBP Büyük Birlik Partisi (Turkish: Grand Unity Party) BBP Blood Borne Pathogen BBP Baseband Processor produces over two dozen newsletters, as well as manuals and annuals, in human resources, employment law, payroll and credit and collections. It has 114 employees. BBP will be integrated into the New York-based Law and Business Group of Aspen Publishers Inc., a Wolters Kluwer U.S. company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md. * In a separate transaction, Wolters Kluwer's CCH CCH Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Spanish) CCH Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist CCH Cook County Hospital CCH Certified in Classical Homeopathy CCH Country Club Hills (Fairfax City, VA, USA) Legal Information Services, N.Y.C., has signed a merger agreement with Accu-Search Inc., a Houston-based UCC An abbreviation for the Uniform Commercial Code. search and retrieval software and services company. |
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