P&Fnow on Hiatus Until January 21, New Associate Editor

Dec 30th, 2008

Kelly Frederick

P&Fnow is taking a quick break from publishing in order to facilitate the relaunch of our Web site in early January and a revamped P&Fnow newsletter on January 21. Look forward to new features and deeper content. And please give us your feedback so we can serve you better in the new year.

We are also very excited to welcome our new Associate Editor, Aditi Inamdar. Aditi has a strong background in business-to-business publishing and will liaise with the industry on news and feature assignments. Calendar and news items may be sent to her attention at [email protected].

Until next time, we wish everyone a great holiday season and a successful new year.

Best regards,

Jeb Gleason-Allured, Editor

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