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SAN DIEGO, CA – December 17, 2008 – Trade Service and Penton Media, Inc. announced today that Trade Service, the leading provider of product and pricing services to electrical contractors and distributors, will offer access to some of Penton’s key news and information sections within its Electrical Construction and Maintenance (EC&M) and Electrical Wholesaling (EW) publications, from the new Trade Service Online content and communication portal, aka TRA-SER® SX, to be rolled out in January 2009.
“The alliance with Penton provides a solid foundation to the ‘industry news’ component of Trade Service Online,” says Tod Moore, Trade Service’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Moore adds, “With TSO, we’re leveraging the Internet to create a new approach to how our customers receive content and how they communicate with their trading partners. And being able to provide direct access to such resources as EW’s NewsWatch™, Top 200™, Green News™, Current Issue™ and Source Book™; and EC&M’s G-Biz™, CodeWatch™, Product NewsWire™, and Top 50 Contractors, really helps round out our offering.”
According to Jim Lucy, Chief Editor of Electrical Wholesaling (EW), “As the electrical market’s leading content provider, we are always looking for new ways to provide electrical distributors, electrical contractors, facility maintenance personnel, independent manufacturers’ reps, manufacturers and other industry professionals with the information they need on the job. Providing direct access to some of our most popular content through Trade Service Online is a great fit for us.”
Said David Miller, Publisher of Electrical Construction and Maintenance (EC&M), “EC&M, Electrical Wholesaling and Trade Service have served the distributor and end-user markets for decades. We are both moving aggressively to supplement our legacy print products with exciting new online content. Hundreds of thousands of electrical professionals visit the EC&M and Electrical Wholesaling websites, e-mail newsletters and other online properties each month. Linking our content to Trade Service Online will help us meet and serve even more electrical professionals and provide Trade Service Online with a respected source for information on NEC changes, new products, industry news analysis and new business opportunities in the green market.”
About Trade Service
Trade Service is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, and government agencies. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts. For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com, or call (800) 854-1527.
About Penton Media
Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com. |
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