Integrated Media Consortium Welcomes Ascend Media as Member
Chicago, IL. The Integrated Media Cooperative announced today the addition of Ascend Media. to its roster of members.
Ascend Media is positioned as a leader in the business-to-business media environment - with a unique focus on medical, healthcare and business services industries.
"We are very excited to add Ascend to our membership" said Bill Walker, President & CEO of IMC. "They bring considerable credibility to our organization and their publishing expertise will add to our knowledge base as we evaluate potential partners for products and services."
Dan Altman COO of Ascend Media said "We are joining forces with the other IMC members to hold down costs in a number of our cost centers. We will realize ROI from just the program with ADP while our most significant savings will be with paper."
"As the paper market has become turbulent we see the cooperative as one of the ways to quell the storm. The strength of joining forces with the coop gives us more leverage in the marketplace." Said Tom Fogarty Vice President Production at Ascend.
About Intergrated Media Cooperative
The Integrated Media Cooperative was founded on March 15, 2005 our members include Allured Publishing Corporation, Ascend Media, Douglas Publishing, Dowden Health Media, a subsidiary of Lebhar- Freidman Inc., Edgell Communications, Farm Journal Media, Meister Media Worldwide, NTP Media, Inc., Northstar Travel Media, LLC, Putman Media, Speccomm International, Stamats Communications Inc. and Vance Publishing Corporation . These companies represent more than 500 magazines, with a combined circulation of over 10 million and over $500 million in annual revenues. The Integrated Media Cooperative is dedicated to the growth of independent small to medium-sized magazine publishing companies by providing opportunities to share of best practices, innovate through mutual efforts, and benefit financially through consolidation of volume purchasing. We will strive to reach these goals by collaborating with suppliers of goods and services offering them reduced competition, greater than average growth, reduced marketing costs, and open communication and information flow.
About Ascend Media, LLC
Ascend Media is a diversified business media organization. It owns and operates professional magazines and journals; organizes trade shows, conferences and educational programs; and maintains online properties and databases serving the medical, healthcare and professional services industries. In the medical and allied healthcare industries, the company publishes more than 30 journals and magazines and serves more than 40 medical associations with daily newspapers, directories and marketing programs, as well as organizes continuing medical education programs and symposia. Ascend Media also operates a diversified professional services group, focused on providing event-related publishing in partnership with leading trade associations, as well as delivering more than 20 publications and events for the food, beverage, packaging, trade show, professional audio/video and gaming industries.
Ascend Media was formed and incorporated in 2002 by Cameron Bishop, Dan Altman and Ron Wall, business-to-business industry veterans with a combined 80+ years of industry experience. The company is financially backed by two of the world's most prestigious private equity firms, J.P. Morgan Partners and Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Ascend Media is headquartered in Overland Park, KS. For additional information: www.ascendmedia.com.