Virgo Publishing Partners With Seaport Capital 29732

Virgo Publishing Partners With Seaport Capital

PHOENIXVirgo Publishingannounced it has partnered with Seaport Capital, a New York City-based privateequity fund with more than $400 million of capital under management.

Seaport Capital focuses on partnering with management ofprivate middle-market media, telecommunications, information andbusinessservices companies. The partners at Seaport Capital have more than 75years of cumulative experience in providing equity capital and financial andstrategic advice to superior management teams seeking a partner to help themgrow their business.

Seaport is thrilled to partner with Virgo management, andwe look forward to working with Jenny Bolton and her team to build on theirtremendous track record in business-to-business information services, said Kevin Brandon, a partner with Seaport Capital.

Founded in 1986 and based in Phoenix, Virgo Publishing is abusiness-to-business publisher dedicated to meeting the information needs ofniche business sectors. Virgo publishes 16 national trade magazines and producesseven trade shows and events diversified across several industry groups,including natural products/health care, telecommunications, light industrial andlifestyle.

Jenny Bolton, president and chief executive officer of Virgo,said, Our new partnership with Seaport Capital is very exciting and willallow us to accelerate our current growth strategies. I am looking forward tocontinuing our expansion into new and existing markets where we can implementour unique style of creating communities through our publishing, Internet andevents businesses.

Virgo Publishings Health & Nutrition Division produces NaturalProducts Industry INSIDER magazine, HSR:Health Supplement Retailer magazine, the SupplySideEast and SupplySide West trade shows, the Focus on the Future conference, thenutrilearn.com education Web site and various other business-to-businessservices.

This will be a very exciting time for our industry and ourclients as we take our company to the next level, said Peggy Jackson,director of publishing. The additional knowledge and resources will allow usto greatly expand our service to the industry.