Investors in Profitable, Growing Service Businesses
Charles McCurdy Assumes Role as CEO of Canon Communications
Los Angeles, CA (February 8, 2006) – Apprise Media LLC today announced that Charles G. McCurdy, CEO of Apprise Media and Chairman of Canon Communications LLC, has taken on the additional role of CEO of Canon. William F. Cobert, the company's current CEO is leaving the company to pursue other professional interests.
McCurdy said, "All of us at Apprise and Canon owe great gratitude to Bill for his exceptional leadership of Canon, growing its leading B2B media positions in the Medical Device market in North America, Europe, and, since last year, in China. Bill has also overseen Canon's successful growth in the related specialty packaging, plastics, and engineering sectors. We intend to continue the great legacy of market leadership and innovation that Bill and the entire management team has delivered consistently over many years.
"Canon is a great company with strong growth ahead," McCurdy added. "We will continue to support Canon in its successful program of expanding offerings for the sectors it serves and closely related sectors. We will also continue to grow the company through selective, complementary acquisitions that build upon a highly experienced management team."
Apprise acquired Canon in May 2005 as a platform for investment in B2B media.
About Apprise Media, LLC
Established in 2004 by Charles G. McCurdy, co-founder and former President of Primedia, Inc., Apprise Media (www.apprisemedia.com) concentrates on niche media, one of the fastest-growing segments in the media industry worldwide. Apprise currently operates two strategic platforms: Apprise Business Media LLC, which includes Canon Communications LLC, a leading publisher, trade show producer, and digital media company serving advanced, technology-based manufacturing industries, including medical device, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, specialty packaging, electronics, and plastics processing; and Apprise Enthusiast Media LLC, which serves a variety of attractive consumer niche markets through Beckett Media LP and the Action Pursuit Group
About Canon Communications
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
