Buy, Buy, ITI Acquisition Pie

摘要

In my previous column, I described how Information Today, Inc. (ITI) started acquiring and adding key publishing companies and conferences to the ITI family. In this column, I'm taking a closer look at the last three pieces of the acquisition pie that created a rather diverse addition to ITI's holdings.rnTom Hogan Sr., president and CEO of ITI, says the company entered the directory business largely because of R.R. Bowker, which was then owned by Reed Elsevier. Although Reed Elsevier put its directory division up for sale,rnCambridge Scientific Abstracts (later known as the Cambridge Information Group) only wanted two "big guns" from the collection: Books In Print and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.