2005 News Releases

03 October

Bernard Gray steps down as CEO of CMPi

United Business Media announces that Bernard Gray, Chief Executive of CMPi is to leave the company to take up a new role as Chief Executive of TSL Education.

David Levin, Chief Executive of United Business Media, said:

"Bernard has done a great job in his role as CEO of CMPi and we wish him well in his new role."

Egon Zehnder have been retained to conduct a search for a new CEO. Both internal and external candidates will be considered. In the interim, CMPi will report to David Levin.

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Background

United Business Media plc (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

United Business Media plc offers information services in news distribution, publishing and events to customers around the globe. Its brands include PR Newswire, the world's leading corporate news distribution service; and CMP, the magazines, exhibitions and online group for professionals and enthusiasts operating in a wide range of trading markets in the US, UK, Asia and Europe including the high tech, healthcare, property, entertainment, jewellery and fashion industries.

Operating Companies:

UBM's publishing division companies operate under the CMP name: CMP Media based in the US, CMP Asia based in Asia, CMPMedica in Healthcare markets in Europe and Asia and CMP Information based in the UK. UBM's news distribution business PR Newswire operates globally, from a US base.

Customers

UBM's market leading - typically ranked number one or two - products serve top blue chip clients in all their end markets including:- Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Astra Zeneca, Forest Laboratories, Pfizer/Pharmacia, Merck & Co, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Cisco, Toyo Shinaku, India Trade Promotions Organisation, China Chamber of Commerce, Sinopharm, Incase, Edelman Worldwide, Porter Novelli, Fleishman Hillard, NASA.

Product Categories

Publications
- Over 160 magazines, 110 countries, 4m readers, 4,500 advertisers
Events
- Over 300 events, 1.3m visitors, 20,000 exhibitors, from 120 countries
Directories
- Over 50 directories, over 750 thousand recipients, in over 40 countries
Online - Over 200 websites, 22 million page impressions

News Distribution

- Over 180,000 messages distributed to tens of thousands of media points in 135 countries and in more than 150 languages
- Over 80,000 journalists registered on media-only Web site with 1 million releases viewed monthly
- Over 460,000 journalists profiled in media targeting database
- Over 10,000 print and more than 12,000 online sources, including websites, blogs and databases monitored
- Over 150 queries distributed to more than 12,000 public relations and information officers from reporters researching stories
- Leading broadcast public relations and multimedia company

Product Brands

CMP Media
www.cmpmedia.com
Information Week, CRN, EE Times, Network Computing, VARBusiness, TechWeb, Consultant Magazine, Game Developer Conference, Embedded Systems Conference, Xchange Conferences, Guitar Player, Health & Beauty America, Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention.

CMP Information
www.cmpinformation.com
CPHI, Building, Furniture Show, Property Week, Farmer's Guardian, FIE, Ifsec, Health & Safety, Pulse, Daltons Weekly, Trade It, Trader, Opportunities, Private Villas, This Caring Business, ECM.

CMPMedica
www.asia.cmpmedica.com
Vidal, Journal du Medicin, Gelbeliste, Vademecum, Medical Observer, Carnets de Sante, MIMS, Kassenarzt, Medex, MedServe.

CMP Asia
www.cmpasia.com
Asia Pacific Leather Fair, Cosmoprof Asia, China Furniture Fair, Hong Kong Jewellery and Watch Fair, Health Industry News, Jewellery News Asia, Tokyo Intnl Health Industry Show.

PR Newswire
www.prnnewswire.com
MultiVu, MediaAtlas, eWatch, Profnet, US1.

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