Penton Completes Acquisition of Nation's Restaurant News

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(Press Release) NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2010—Sharon Rowlands, CEO of Penton, announced today that the company has acquired Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN) from Lebhar-Friedman. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

NRN is a property Penton has coveted owning for some time,” said Rowlands. “It is one of the most successful business-to-business media brands and enables us to launch a new and sizable Penton Restaurant Group which will also include Restaurant Hospitality and Food Management. Our Restaurant Group will have every single segment of food service covered—from full service to QSR, independents to chains, and commercial to noncommercial.

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