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FEATURE STORY: A Life in Publishing – Business Facilities’ 40th Anniversary

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Ed looked at a batch of classified announcements of available commercial properties and saw the potential for a comprehensive magazine that would provide corporate site selectors everything they needed to know to make their expansion, relocation or new facilities decisions. It was diversify or die,” he says.

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Edgar T. Coene, Group C Founder And Chairman, Dies At 83

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Ed chose to be his own boss, starting a publishing company specializing in industrial buyers guides and property listings. Ted launched the TFM trade show in 1998 and became the executive publisher of Business Facilities. He launched BF’s annual business-to-business event, LiveXchange, in 2005.

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