VP Niel Hiscox buys CLB Media name and its automotive titles

Niel Hiscox, the rangy vice-president at CLB Media, confirms that he is negotiating to buy the company name and its automotive titles from the rapidly breaking-up publishing group, according to a story in Masthead. 

Once the recently announced deal with Annex Publishing and Printing goes through, involving the remaining titles in the CLB stable after Thomson Reuters bought Law Times, Canadian Lawyer and related legal titles, Annex has agreed it makes sense to spin off the automotive titles, which include a custom publication for Toyota and Canadian Auto Dealer magazine, published in conjunction with the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association. 

Hiscox will carry on under the CLB Media brand, but move the company from its current location in Aurora.

CLB Media closes four b2b titles

CLB Media which, a few years ago, was on an acquisition tear last week closed four titles, according to a posting in mastheadonline. The four titles were:

• Advanced Manufacturing (9 years old, now included as a branded section in another CLB title Manufacturing Automation).
• Green Business (launched with some fanfare last year, but apparently a victim of advertisers no longer as enamoured of promoting their green credentials);
• Network Cabling (serving an audience considered by CLB to be well-served by other titles such as Electrical Business); and
  
• Workplace (an HR title that suffered from the common wisdom in the b2b marketplace that you don't want to be #3; as it was, behind Thomson-Reuters' Canadian HR Reporter and the online pub HR.com).