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Canon Communications Expands B2B Media Presence in Europe With Acquisition of Octo Media
Strengthens company's position in the world's second largest medical device manufacturing market
Los Angeles, CA (March 1, 2006) – Canon Communications LLC, an Apprise Media Company, today announced its acquisition of Octo Media Ltd, a London-based trade magazine publisher and event organizer. Integration of the company's properties will significantly expand Canon's portfolio of business-to-business media products serving the $230 billion worldwide medical device manufacturing industry.
"This acquisition makes Canon the dominant provider of media services to the high-growth medical device manufacturing field in North America, Europe, and China, through trade shows, publications, and digital products," said Canon Chairman and CEO Charles G. McCurdy. "It also demonstrates Apprise Media's ongoing support for Canon's successful program of expanding effective offerings for the sectors it serves and closely related sectors. We will continue to grow the company through selective, complementary acquisitions that build upon its strong existing portfolio of products and management capabilities."
Medical Device Technology magazine, the largest audited title in the field in Europe, focuses on the technical and applications-oriented aspects of medical manufacturing, including product design and engineering, production, regulatory compliance, marketing, and distribution. Launched in 1990, its readership is primarily product design, R&D, production, process engineering, and quality control decision makers throughout Western Europe, and it complements Canon's European Medical Device Manufacturer magazine.
The Medical Device Technology (MDT) Exhibition and Conference, now in its 13th year, features top-level presenters from industry, academia, engineering and professional societies, and regulatory bodies. MDT is the UK's only dedicated medical device trade show and complements Canon's MEDTEC shows in Germany and Ireland.
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
