BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$75.1M
- Private
- US
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We are pleased to announce that on July 9, 2007, Summit Business Media, LLC, a leading business-to-business media and information company serving the insurance, financial and professional services markets, acquired Wicks Business Information. As a result of the acquisition, Summit Business Media will now publish Investment Advisor, Credit Union Times, InsideCounsel and Treasury & Risk magazines, as well as websites, custom publishing projects and an array of live events. Our Executive Enterprises seminar unit also produces more than 100 courses each year, serving the specialized continuing education and training needs of accountants, lawyers and tax professionals. Our operations will join Summit's Highline Media unit, led by Andrew L. Goodenough, President of Highline. John Whelan, the Vice President and Group Publisher of WBI, will report to Thomas A. Fowler, Executive Vice President of Highline's Magazine Division, while the EEI and events businesses will report to James M. Keefe, Senior Vice President of Highline's Conference Division. Douglas J. Manoni, WBI's CEO, will be leaving the company after a transition period. We are looking forward to becoming part of the Summit Business Media family and are confident that our products will continue to be recognized as leaders in their respective markets and flourish under the direction of the Highline Media team.
Number of Employees 220
Contact Information
1375 Kings Hwy E Ste450
Fairfield, Connecticut 06824
(203) 334-2002
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NAICS Code Newspaper Publishers: 511110
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Summit Business Media to acquire Wicks Business Information
- 2007-07-01
Summit Business Media New York, a company formed by Wind Point Partners (Chicago, IL) in 2006 with the acquisition of Pfingsten Publishing (Cleveland, OH) and Highline Media (Erlanger, KY), has signed an agreement to acquire Wicks Business Information (Fairfield, CT/New York), a publishing and information company that targets the financial...
Wicks Business Information acquires Corporate Legal Times, Inc.
- 2005-03-31
Following a recommitment of capital from the Wicks Group of Companies New York, Wicks Business Information (Fairfield, CT) has acquired Corporate Legal Times LLC (Chicago, IL), the producer of "Corporate Legal Times," a monthly magazine for general counsel and other in-house corporate counsel, and the annual...
Wicks bus. sells briefings information & acquires corporate legal times
- 2005-03-17
Wicks Business Information (WBI; Fairfield, CT) has sold its Briefings Publishing Group (Alexandria, VA), a publisher of media aimed at workplace and managerial performance, to Douglas Publications (Richmond, VA). No terms were given. Briefings properties include nine business management newsletters, including Communications Briefings, American Speaker and Manager's Edge, as...
Investment Advisor , a magazine serving independent financial advisors published by Wicks Business Information, has launched Retirement Plan Advisor/Interactive Edition, a monthly e-newsletter focusing on the needs of readers who offer 401 and other quali
- 2005-01-31
Investment Advisor (Shrewsbury, NJ), a magazine serving independent financial advisors published by Wicks Business Information, has launched Retirement Plan Advisor/Interactive Edition, a monthly e-newsletter focusing on the needs of readers who offer 401k and other qualified retirement plans to their clients. It has a circulation of 50,000 and carries industry...
Veteran newsletter marketer Denise Elliott named president of Briefings Publishing Group.
- 2004-10-31
Wicks Business Information CEO Douglas J. Manoni recently announced that Denise Elliott has been named president of Briefings Publishing Group, a leading producer of media aimed at improving workplace and managerial performance. The Alexandria, Virginia-based Briefings is a division of the Fairfield, Connecticut-based Wicks. ...
Dow Jones to buy Wicks Business Information's Alternative Investor division for $85 million.
- 2004-02-29
Wicks Business Information this month announced that it has agreed to sell Alternative Investor to Dow Jones & Company for $85 million, plus working capital and a potential performance-based payment of $5 million. An industry insider who wished to remain anonymous told NL/NL, "WBI had to...
Wicks Business Information LLC. (People).
- 2003-05-31
William "Willy" Burkhardt, who has previously held positions at ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, and McKinsey and Company, has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vice present and COO, Wicks Business Information LLC WBI. He will oversee all operating units of the business, including Alternative...
WICKS BUS. INFO. ACQUIRES NEWSLETTERS & EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHER
- 2001-07-31
Wicks Business Information (Fairfield, CT) has acquired eight newsletters from The Economics Press Inc. (Fairfield, NJ). Wicks said the acquired publications will be merged into Wicks' Briefings Publishing Group (Alexandria, VA) division. Wicks has also signed an agreement to acquire Delta Education (Nashua, NH) from Torstar Corp. Toronto. No terms...
Georgetown Publishing Sold To Wicks Business Information
- 2000-07-31
Wicks Business Information (Fairfield, CT) has acquired newsletter publisher. Georgetown Publishing House (Washington, D.C.) and affiliate Global Network, Inc. from co-owners Dani Levinas and Norman Rentrop (Bonn, Germany). No terms were given for the deal although estimates in other media put the sale price at about $20 million. Georgetown was...
Advanstar owner puts media firm on the block ;Exit plan puts spotlight on financial players in b-to-b media .(Brief Article)
- 2000-05-08
Advanstar Inc.'s private equity owner has put the b-to-b media company on the block. In an April 27 announcement, Boston-based Advanstar confirmed that Hellman & Friedman, which bought the company for $177 million in 1996, was exploring "strategic alternatives," including a sale. ...
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