VARBusiness Announces First Annual VARBusiness 500 Awards Dinner Recognizing Top Companies in Technology

Exclusive Event Hosts Top Industry Executives

PRNewswire
NEW YORK
Jun 12, 2001

VARBusiness, the premier source of strategic technology and business direction for the architects of the digital economy, will host the VARBusiness 500 Awards Dinner on June 27, 2001, at Chelsea Piers in New York City. VARBusiness will bring together executives and managers from the VARBusiness 500 in this industry-wide networking opportunity.

The VARBusiness 500 Awards recognizes companies in the VARBusiness 500, one of the magazine's most anticipated issues of the year for its definitive ranking by revenue of the top Solution Providers, IT and E-Business Consultants, systems integrators, developers and Web integrators in North America. The industry-recognized ranking enables organizations across the Solution Provider community to see how they stack up among the biggest and brightest.

"This event will showcase and recognize companies that are significantly contributing to the development of this industry sector," said Robert DeMarzo, VARBusiness Vice President/Editorial Director. "We created this event as a way to highlight this leadership as well as to allow our readers to benefit through networking."

The VARBusiness 500 Awards Dinner will bring together managers and executives from the VARBusiness 500 companies, guests from each of the nine sponsoring companies, the magazine's staff including sales, management and editorial, as well as executives from the 2001 VARBusiness 500 listing. Sponsors include BEA, Frontrange, Hewlett Packard, IBM, IBM Software, Novell, Samsung, Seagate, and SMC.

For more information about this event, please call Dawn Walton 516-733-6949.

About VARBusiness magazine

VARBusiness is the premier source of strategic technology and business direction for the architects of the digital economy. As the definitive source of perspective, insight and commentary for Solution Providers, VARBusiness delivers essential information these innovative professionals need to manage and transform their businesses. The magazine provides analysis of strategic technologies, customer experiences and high value solutions while anticipating trends and delivering critical research executives can leverage for a competitive advantage. Through its bi-weekly magazine, content-rich web site, industry-defining research, and events, VARBusiness leads today's Solution Providers to successful business ventures in a dynamic world. The American Business Press recently honored VARBusiness with a prestigious 1999 Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award. The magazine's Web site is at http://www.varbusiness.com/.

About CMP Media LLC

CMP Media LLC is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at http://www.cmpnet.com/.

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  PepperCom
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  dalbanese@peppercom.com

  Jackie Kolek
  PepperCom
  (212) 931-6166
  jkolek@peppercom.com

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Contact: Dominic Albanese, 212-931-6128, dalbanese@peppercom.com; or
Jackie Kolek, 212-931-6166, jkolek@peppercom.com, both of PepperCom, for
VARBusiness

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