The Seller
Engel Publishing Partners is a leading provider of marketing and clinical research information to the $500 billion worldwide pharmaceutical industry. A unit of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, Engel Publishing Partners publishes well-established business magazines, including Med Ad News and R&D Directions. Through its leading website, PharmaLive.com, it offers several interactive products, including the eKnowledgebase, PharmaSentry, the PharmaLive.com eNewsletter Series and Therapeutics Daily eNewsletter Series, and OnDemand Special Reports. Each year, Engel Publishing Partners hosts several highly-anticipated industry events, including the Patient-Centered Marketing conference, the Drug Development Summit, and The Manny Awards, a gala affair celebrating the leading pharmaceutical advertising agencies and presenting the coveted Advertising Agency of the Year award.
The Buyer
Canon Communications LLC, a portfolio company of Apprise Media LLC, is the leading publisher, trade show producer, and digital media company for the nation’s $1 trillion advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry, including medical device, specialty packaging, materials processing, automated assembly, electronics, quality control, and plastics processing. Canon produces trade shows for each of these sectors. In the medical device manufacturing sector, the company produces Medical Design & Manufacturing (United States), MEDTEC (Germany and China), BIOMEDevice, and Medical Device Technology (UK); in packaging, WestPack, EastPack, SouthPack, and MidPak; in design engineering, National Manufacturing Week, Atlantic Design & Manufacturing, Pacific Design & Manufacturing, and Design & Manufacturing South; in quality control, Quality Expo and Quality Expo Detroit; in materials processing, International Powder & Bulk Solids and Powder & Bulk Solids Southeast; and in automated assembly, Assembly Technology Expo, Electronics Assembly, Electronics West, Assembly New England, Automation Technology Expo (ATX), , and Advanced Manufacturing Exposition (AM Expo);in plastics processing, PLASTEC East, PLASTEC West, PLASTEC Midwest; and in electronics, NEPCON, and OEM New England. The company’s expanding array of magazine titles includes MD&DI (Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry), Medical Product Manufacturing News, European Medical Device Manufacturer, Medical Device Technology (UK), China Medical Device Manufacturer, IVD Technology, MX, Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, Nutritional Outlook, Cosmetic/Personal Care Packaging, Injection Molding Magazine, Modern Plastics Worldwide, Powder/Bulk Solids and Appliance. Digital media include the medical device design and engineering portal, Medical Device Link; the online magazine, Advanced Design & Manufacturing (AD&M); and 50 branded e-newsletters and e-publications. Further information about the company’s business-to-business publications, trade shows, and digital media, is available at www.cancom.com.