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Article: THE CAHNERS HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2005
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Its gradual demise lacks the eclat of the Gillette takeover, the
disappearance of Fleet Bank, or the offshoring of John Hancock, but
Cahners Publishing Company's death by a thousand cuts has had a
significant impact on civic life in Boston.
The name of Norman Cahners, the hustling young Harvard grad who
turned a Navy inventory newsletter called "The Palletizer" into a
trade publishing empire, was quietly removed from the company's
signature Newton Corner headquarters a while back. Now the Boston-
area staff is leaving the building entirely.
The 300 remaining employees, buffeted by successive rounds of
layoffs implemented by their Anglo-Dutch overseers at Reed Elsevier
PLC, are moving to ...