About Penton Media

Penton Media, Inc., founded in 1886, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces 113 magazines, 96 trade shows, and 145 web sites . Numerous corporate acquisitions, sales, and mergers have occurred over the years. Recently Wasserstein & Co. purchased Prism Business Media from Primedia in August 2005 for $385 million. Prism Business Media was then merged when Wasserstein purchased Penton Media in November 2006 for $194 million.. The combined entity took the Penton Media name. After the merger, Penton became one of the largest B2B media companies in the world.

Penton's global headquarters had been located in the Penton Media Building in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio since 2000. However, after the Penton/Prism merger, the company is now headquartered in New York City, although it continues to maintain offices in Cleveland and numerous other cities around the U.S.