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.
Read the whole story at B-To-B Media »