CMP Names Leslie Jeffery Associate Publisher, Computer Retail WeekPRNewswire CMP's Computer Retail Week has promoted National Sales Manager Leslie Jeffery to Associate Publisher, a position in which she will run the newspaper's day-to-day business and its sales development programs. "Leslie has had a long and successful career with CMP's Channel Group," said Keith Newman, Publisher of Computer Retail Week. "As National Sales Manager she clearly demonstrated the leadership, drive and visionary abilities an Associate Publisher's position demands. Moving forward, Computer Retail Week will continue to benefit from her talents and sales know-how." Jeffery, who holds the record as CMP's top sales performer, has been an integral part of CMP's Channel Group for almost a decade. Prior to her position as National Sales Manager for Computer Retail Week, a title she has held since May 1996, she was Western Region Sales Manager. Jeffery began her career with CMP in 1988 as a District Manager for Computer Reseller News. Other positions she held at Computer Reseller News include Marketing Manager and Director of Marketing and Special Project Sales. In addition to her career sales record, Jeffery achieved the distinction of being the only two-time winner of Computer Reseller News's Salesperson of the Year Award. In her new position, Jeffery will report to Newman. Computer Retail Week is the leading newspaper for technology retailers. It provides critical information about new alliances, technologies and products for a wide audience of computer hardware and software retailers, mass merchants, software specialty stores and other Channel members. For the past six years, Computer Retail Week has delivered breaking news weekly throughout the year. Breaking news stories can be viewed by visiting Computer Retail Week's home page, CRWi, at http://www.crw.com/. CMP Media Inc., now in its 26th year of uninterrupted growth, is the only provider of publishing, marketing and information services to reach the entire spectrum of the high-technology market, the builders, sellers and users of technology. With sales of $418 million in 1996, CMP has marked its quarter century of success with an average yearly growth of 20 percent. All of CMP's publications and a series of innovative news and interactive services, are available on the World Wide Web through CMP's TechWeb® http://www.techweb.com/, the industry's first free daily technology news and interactive services super site, since 1994. CMP Media is also the creator of NetGuide Live (http://www.netguide.com/), the first comprehensive daily online guide to the Net, and First-TV (http://www.first-tv.com/), the Internet's first 24-hour TV/video network. -0- 1/30/97 SOURCE: CMP Media Inc. CONTACT: Leslie Dunbar of CMP Media, 516-562-7040 or by e-mail at |