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Mandel joins VNU from WPP Group’s Group M, where he was chief of strategic solutions. PROFILE Lagani leads Fairchild Fashion Group PEOPLE New president says ‘WWD’ primed for major growth I PennWell chooses Platt, Pritchard as group publishers PennWell Corp. has named Chris Platt group publisher of Solid State Technology and Advanced Packaging magazines. Platt joins PennWell from Reed Business Information, where he worked with Electronic News and Electronic Business, among other products. PennWell also named Tim Pritchard group publisher of Surface Mount Technology. Pritchard will continue as group publisher of Lightwave, Portable Design and Connector Specifier. CNET announces resignation of president-COO Briggs CNET Networks announced that Barry Briggs has resigned as president-COO to pursue other opportunities. The company, which operates technology news Web sites, said it has no plans to replace him at this time. He joined CNET in 2000 following the company’s acquisition of ZDNet, where he served as president. The announcement of Briggs’ departure came two months after CNET chairmanCEO Shelby Bonnie resigned because of his role in the company’s backdated stock options controversy. able for free to registered users, and paid subn the days leading up to Fashion Week in scribers get unfettered access. “There is room for New York’s Bryant Park early next a site that has unpaid content,” Lagani said. month, designers will be putting the final In addition to the flagship WWD propertouches on apparel collecties, Lagani also oversees tions before the fashion meDNR, Fairchild Books, an Lagani Company: dia review them. Meanwhile, Fairchild Classified, Fairchild Condé Nast Women’s Wear Daily, long Summits and Footwear Publications considered the fashion indusNews. Altogether, the group Location: try’s daily bible, will be dopublishes 30 products annuNew York ing some last-minute tinkerally, and Lagani said one of Title: President, ing of its own. his early goals is to determine Fairchild Fashion Group Dan Lagani, who in Sep- Big move: Promoted from which titles have the potentember was named president Bridal Group to grow tial for greater frequency. of Condé Nast Publications’ business globally. Lagani has been at Condé Fairchild Fashion Group, is Five-year plan: Satisfy the Nast since March 2005 and, consumer regardless of time intent on maintaining the zone and continent. before switching to the fashion dominance of WWD by cregroup, was VP-publisher of ating a more comprehensive digital product the bridal group, whose titles include Brides, Elthat will debut in time for Fashion Week. The egant Bride andModern Bride. That position proglobal nature of the fashion industry, and the vided him with experience in running multiple fact that the WWD franchise straddles the line businesses and focusing a sales organization to between consumer and trade titles, presents better target its efforts. In 2006, the unit’s three unlimited growth opportunities for the group magazines and specials generated more than 600 he now heads, Lagani said. additional ad pages than the publications did in “The Web site is very much slated to be an 2005, the best performance among Condé Nast’s area that we invest in and use as an opportuni- titles, he said. ty for people to see, regardless of platform … “It was a great moment in time,” Lagani the leadership position of the entire Fairchild said. “A part of what we did there we’ll take Fashion Group,” Lagani said. “We have the advantage of going forward. I believe the surmost trusted and respected portfolio of brands face is really only being scratched. I just bein our realm, and now we ensure through a lieve that when we understand the breadth of two-fold approach that we deliver that same the portfolio we have now, the advertising user experience regardless of the platform.” base itself will continue to grow.” Lagani would not detail the online initiative, Lagani also held the title of VP-publisher at but it’s unlikely that wwd.com will become a both Better Homes and Gardens and at Ladies’ subscription-only site. Currently, some content Home Journal. In addition, he served as pubon the site is free to visitors, more content is avail- lisher of George. D BY MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK Prism Business Media/Penton Media taps Lundberg as CFO Prism Business Media announced the appointment of Eric Lundberg as CFO of the combined Prism Business Media/Penton Media company to be formed upon completion of Prism’s previously announced acquisition of Penton Media. The Prism acquisition of Penton is expected to close in the first half of 2007. Lundberg had served as VP-CFO of ALM since 2003. He joined ALM in 1995. ‘Professional Carwashing & Detailing’ names Carr editor NTP Media has named Kathyrn Carr editor of Professional Car- washing & Detailing, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. Carr will also be in charge of content for the publication’s Web site www.carwash.com and its twice-weekly online publication, “Professional Car Care E-news.” NTP Media is a division of the Grand View Media Group. mediabusinessonline.com | January 2007 | Media Business | 25 Warning : Unknown : The session id contains invalid characters, valid characters are only a-z, A-Z and 0-9 in Unknown on line 0 Warning : Unknown : Failed to write session data files . Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct /var/lib/php/session in Unknown on line 0 http://wwd.com http://www.carwash.com http://mediabusinessonline.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of BtoB Media Business - January 2007

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Events
Production
Online
Circulation
People
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Endnote

BtoB Media Business - January 2007