Cygnus Business Media Acquires Finishing & Restoration magazine

Cygnus Publishing division adds strategic publication to Building & Home Products Sector

Westport, CT (May 20, 2003) - Cygnus Business Media, a leading, diversified business-to-business media company, announced today that its Cygnus Publishing division has acquired Finishing & Restoration magazine from Woodland Hills, California's McCloskey Communications. The publication has been serving the wood finishing and restoration market for six years and adds to Cygnus Publishing's exclusive Building and Home Products segment which reaches over 300,000 specifiers in the fields of residential remodeling, kitchen and bath design, laminate, wood and wood-based technologies, fabrication, electrical contractors and specifying/design engineers. Finishing & Restoration will be overseen by Group Publisher Tony Dellamaria who also manages Wood Digest, Solid Surface Magazine and Surfacing Solutions.

"This is an important acquisition for our advertisers and readers in the wood and finishing marketplace," says Group Publisher Tony Dellamaria. "Reaching more professionals, diversifying content and integrating marketing opportunities continues to be the best program when selling and marketing products. This acquisition adds to those programs."

Finishing & Restoration is a bi-monthly magazine that reaches 15,000 readers in the industrial, professional and advanced amateur sectors who finish and restore wood and wood products. The magazine will be strategically aligned with Wood Digest and its online portal Woodworkingpro.com offering the most targeted reach of woodworking professionals in the industry.

"Cygnus Business Media is a clear leader in the building, wood finishing and home product sectors," says Finishing & Restoration Founder & Owner Jim McCloskey. "The advertisers and readers of Finishing & Restoration will benefit from the magazine's association with Cygnus and its strong position in the marketplace."

Wood Digest is a monthly publication reaching over 50,000 woodworking professionals including those who manufacture cabinets, millwork and specialty wood products. The magazine provides global coverage of technical advances in equipment and supplies to assist its readers in overcoming productivity challenges.

Woodworkingpro.com, a Web portal for the woodworking industry, serves as the woodworking professionals' informational gateway with access to the United Woodworking Machinery Exchange (UWME), the largest database of guaranteed used woodworking equipment from 15 of the most respected machinery dealers.

Finishing & Restoration explores surface preparation, finishing techniques and finishing equipment as well as the full range of approaches to repairs and touch-ups for wood furniture and architectural woodwork. The publication offers answers to the sorts of questions and challenges that affect a small-shop environment, professionals and serious amateurs who finish new wood, cabinetmakers, architectural millworks and others who manufacture and build furniture.

Cygnus Business Media publishes 80 business-to-business media products including trade magazines, directories and cards, and produces 47 trade shows within 15 major markets. The company is made up of four distinct divisions - Cygnus Publishing, Cygnus Expositions, Cygnus Custom Marketing and Cygnus Interactive - with a portfolio of over 200 separate media products reaching five million professionals annually. Its custom marketing opportunities have been instrumental in building strong brands within competitive marketplaces while its Interactive division's Web sites together attained over 90 million page views in 2002 attracting nearly one million unique visitors. For more information about Cygnus Business Media, log onto Cygnusb2b.com.

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