Company Performance Metrics
CMP is a leading publisher of magazines and newspapers about technology, designed for the builders, the sellers or the users of technology.
The Company was founded in 1971 as CMP Publications, Inc., a New York corporation. On May 24, 1996, a new corporation, CMP Media Inc., was incorporated in Delaware. On May 31, 1996, CMP Publications, Inc.
was merged with and into CMP Media Inc. so that, effective as of such merger, CMP Media Inc. possessed all the rights and became subject to all the liabilities of CMP Publications, Inc.
Many of CMP's publications were the leaders in their respective market niches and five of CMP's publications were among the ten fastest-growing technology publications in the United States.
Of the three largest U.S. technology publishers, CMP is the only one which serves the broad spectrum of builders, sellers and users of technology and which is therefore able to offer technology advertisers access to customers in all three groups.
In 1990 United Business Media, a UK-headquartered media firm bought CMP and did away with the CMP brand name, and separated the company into 4 smaller companies.
