Penton Media – “I hope Sharon can hold the company together without additional layoffs until the economy turns around”

Pros

Still have good print properties

Cons

Highly leveraged media company that is still trying to figure out the formula for transition to the Internet and survive under an enourmous debt load.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to a few of the long term, loyal employees who have watched the company go through a myriad of changes only to now be structured almost identically to the structure of both Penton and Intertec in the 1990's.