Advantage Business Media
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Subsidiaries | Vicon Business Media |
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Advantage Business Media LLC (ABM) is a private, American digital marketing and information services company owned by the venture capital firm Owner Resource Group.[1][2] The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Rockaway, New Jersey (United States).[2]
Business model
In the period between 2006 and 2014, the company transitioned from print-centric to digital media, increasing digital revenues from 11% to 50% of total revenues.[3][4] The company's growth during this period has come from both "organic" growth and strategic acquisitions.[3]
Among the company's vertical market alignments is the manufacturing sector.[3]
The company supports a youth education competition, the Advantage Business Media Young Mind Awards, focused on innovative uses of wireless technology; it is unclear whether 2015 is the first year of competition or not.[5]
Corporate governance
As of 2014, ABM does not have a chief executive officer (CEO).[3] Richard Reiff was the last CEO, who left in March 2014.[3]
Other officers as of 2014 include George Fox as president, Theresa Freeburg as chief financial officer and chief operating officer, and Don Grennan as vice president for publishing services.[2]
History
In 2006, Rich Reiff and George Fox purchased several publications from Reed Business Information with the backing of private equity provided by Catalyst Investors.[4][6] Catalyst sold ABM to Owner Resource Group in 2014.[1]
In 2011, ABM acquired Continuity Insights and Vicon Publishing;[4][6] this was followed in 2013 by acquisition of eMedia Vitals.[3] Vicon Publishing was renamed by ABM to Vicon Business Media and instantiated as a subsidiary organization.[6] Vicon operates out of New Hampshire, United States.[6]
Titles published by ABM
As of 2011, ABM published 19 titles.[4]
Publication titles and ISO 4 abbreviations are listed
- Bioscience Technology (Biosci. Technol.)[6]
- CED[7]
- Chem.Info[7]
- Chromatography Techniques (Chromatogr. Tech.)[6]
- Drug Discovery & Development (Drug Discov. Dev.) aka DDD Mag.[8]
- Electronic Component News (Electron. Compon. News) aka ECN[1][7]
- Food Manufacturing (Food Manuf.)[7]
- Industrial Distribution (Ind. Distrib.)[6]
- Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operations (Ind. Maint. Plant Oper.)[7]
- Laboratory Design (Lab. Des.)[6]
- Laboratory Equipment (Lab. Equip.)[7]
- Manufacturing Business Technology (Manuf. Bus. Technol.)[1]
- Medical Design Technology (Med. Des. Technol.)[7]
- Pharmaceutical Processing (Pharma. Process.)[7]
- Product Design & Development (Prod. Des. Dev.)[1]
- R&D Magazine (R&D Mag.)[6]
- Scientific Computing (Sci. Comput.)[6]
- Wireless Week (Wirel. Week)[1]
Acquired via Vicon
- Controlled Environments Magazine (Control. Environ. Mag.)[6]
- ALN Magazine (ALN Mag.)[6]
- ALN World (ALN World)[6]
- Forensic Magazine (Forensic Mag.)[6]
- DFI News Digital Forensic Investigator (DFI News Digit. Forensic Investig.)[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Collins, Allison (12 February 2014). "Owner Resource Buys PE-Backed Advantage Business Media". Mergers & Acquisitions.
- 1 2 3 "Advantage Business Media LLC". Private Company Information. BusinessWeek. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rondon, Michael (13 February 2014). "Advantage Business Media Sold to PE Firm". Folio.
- 1 2 3 4 Callahan, Sean (9 August 2011). "Advantage Business Media's digital road map". Advertising Age.
- ↑ Lawlor, Maryann (19 December 2014). "Competition Calls on Students to Solve Wireless Technology Problems". SIGNAL Magazine.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Staff (18 January 2012). "Advantage Business Media Purchases Vicon Publishing, Inc.". Telecommunications Weekly – via HighBeam Research.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mickey, Bill (24 September 2010). "Falsified Recordings Land Eight Advantage Business Media Titles on BPA Probation". Audience Development.
- ↑ "2015 Integrated Media Planning Guide" (PDF). Drug Discovery & Development. Retrieved 2 October 2014.