Advantage Business Media, US, has announced the acquisition of Vicon Publishing, Inc. of Amherst, New Hampshire, effective January 1, 2012. Vicon Publishing will now be renamed as Vicon Business Media, Inc. and operate as a subsidiary of Advantage Business Media, LLC.
With this acquisition, Advantage Business Media seeks to expand its reach in Laboratory and Forensics Sciences. The company’s current portfolio in this area includes R&D Magazine, Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Design, Bioscience Technology, Chromatography Techniques, and Scientific Computing.
The new subsidiary, Vicon Business Media, consists of six brands in three distinct niche markets - Controlled Environments Magazine, covering all aspects of cleanroom manufacturing; ALN Magazine and ALN World, known worldwide as the authoritative voice in laboratory animal facility magazines; and Forensic Magazine, covering a wide spectrum of forensic disciplines including related technologies, industry trends, and solutions. Rounding out the Vicon offerings is the weekly publication, DFI News Digital Forensic Investigator, which covers incident response and analysis; digital evidence and the law; forensic analysis for mobile devices; and event reconstruction and case studies.
In addition, Vicon hosts the annual TurnKey Conference, which focuses on Laboratory Animal Facility sectors and Laboratory Animal Medicine.
Vicon is the second acquisition Advantage Business Media has completed in the past few months. In May, the company acquired Continuity Insights, a magazine and trade show business focusing on continuity risk management planning.
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