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Canon To Acquire Several Reed Titles

Canon Communications is in talks to acquire several trade publications from Reed Business Information U.S. The publications in the deal may include Control Engineering, EDN, Design News, Packaging Digest, Test & Measurement World. The pubs fit with Canon Communications' trade shows, such as Electronics West, PlastecWest and WestPack.

Canon also bought three Canadian events in October: PACKEX, a packaging industry event, and Plast-Ex and EXPOPLAST, two plastics industry shows. Reed Business Information U.S., a unit of Reed Elsevier, is divesting its controlled-circulation business publications.

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