MFI Purchases Blenheim

<FONT SIZE="+3"><B>MFI Purchases Blenheim</B>

</H1>United News & Media, the parent company of Miller Freeman Inc. and <I>Business Travel News</I>, earlier this month acquired control of trade show producer and business magazine publisher Blenheim.

Combining Blenheim's exhibition strength in France, the United States and the United Kingdom with Miller Freeman's exhibition strength in the United States and Asia has made the group into the world's largest trade show organizer. Revenues for the combined group were $845 million and profits were $136 million for 1995.

Marshall Freeman, chairman of United's Miller Freeman division, into which the Blenheim organization is being absorbed, said, "It is particularly pleasing that all of the operational management of both groups will be retained as there is no overlap of operational management responsibilities. The two groups are an unusually good fit in all respects."

Staffan Svenby, formerly Blenheim's managing director, is now to head the Miller Freeman Europe division in London. Together with U.S. and Asia operations, the group operates more than 280 trade shows and 140 business magazines.