CMP Media Inc. - CMPX- Profile

CMP Media Inc., provides technology based information through the publication of magazines and newspapers and by internet services to builders, sellers and users of technology. The company also licenses the titles, editorial content and designs of many of its publications to publishers outside the United States. The company represents foreign technology publishers in the sale of advertising space to United States technology advertisers. The publications of the company are electronic buyers' news, electronic engineering times, computer reseller news, computer retail week, internetweek, informationweek, network computing, windows magazine and homepc. The major subsidiaries of the company are CMP International Corp, CMP Media Ltd., France, S.N.C. The company's customers include a variety of technology companies in United states and abroad. The company's international publications include computer reseller news, informationweek, network computing, datacom and informatiques in Germany, France and United Kingdom. During the year the company acquired NSTL, Inc. in 1998. Publishing accounted for 97% of 1998 revenues and other, 3%.