PRESS RELEASE
AMERICAN BUSINESS MEDIA WELCOMES 24 NEW MEMBERS
Membership Continues to Grow at Healthy Rate
NEW YORK, November 15, 2006– American Business Media’s membership continues to grow dynamically, as the ABM board of directors approves 24 new members (with Yahoo! and Outsell Inc. being reclassified from associate members to media members) at the 2006 Top Management meeting in Chicago, IL, bringing total membership to 326.
“This healthy growth in membership speaks volumes to the legacy of American Business Media and its 100 year history,” said Gordon T. Hughes II, president and CEO of American Business Media. “Embracing the transformation our industry is experiencing, the complexion of once purely digital companies including search and data-based companies has evolved into a new type of media firm and ABM remains an important ally to them in the advance of business media across all platforms. We are pleased to welcome and serve all of our members and be the association to represent the entire media brandscape.”
New members include 13 domestic media companies, eight associate members and three international media member and join over 300 member companies as the association celebrates a century of moving business forward.
New Media Members
Advantage Business Media
BZ Media
Builder Design Center Magazine
Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Cygnus Business Media
e.Republic
Grandview Media Group
Lincoln Healthcare Events
LNG Publishing Co. Inc.
Outsell, Inc. (formerly an associate member)
Trade Show Executive Magazine
TradeComet.com LLC
Yahoo! (formerly an associate member)
New Associate Members
Business OnLine
Convera Corp.
Data Depth Corp.
Fast Search
ExpoCall
Integrated Media Corporation
Merrill Lynch Capital
Quadrangle Group LLC
New International Media Members
Infomedia India Limited
ITNation India
Scope eKnowledge Center
About American Business Media:
Founded in 1906, American Business Media is the association of business information providers, delivering business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway. Its over 300 member companies reach an audience of more than 100 million professionals and represent nearly 5000 print and online titles and 1000 Trade Shows and well over $20 billion in annual revenues.
For more information, visit www.americanbusinessmedia.com
Contact:
Danielle Ciardullo, Director of Communications
American Business Media
T 212.661.6360 x3335
info@abmmail.com