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Stockholders To Meet On New Industry Merger
22/08/00



Further to the above story, Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications have announced that each will conduct special meetings of shareholders on September 20, 2000, to gain approval for the proposed merger.

The companies expect to finalise the merger, which was first announced at the end of June, during the third quarter. The deal offers .946 shares of Media Metrix stock for each share of Jupiter Communications. The merged company will be called Jupiter Media Metrix.

Tod Johnson, chairman and chief executive of Media Metrix, will maintain his current position after the acquisition is completed. Gene DeRose, chairman and chief executive officer of Jupiter, will become president and vice chairman of Jupiter Media Metrix. Mary Ann Packo, president and chief operating officer of Media Metrix, and Kurt Abrahamson, president and chief operating officer of Jupiter, will become co-chief operating officers of Jupiter Media Metrix. They will continue as presidents of their respective business units.

Tom Lynch, chief financial officer of Media Metrix, will become the new company's chief financial officer, and Jean Robinson, Jupiter's chief financial officer, will become executive vice president, business development.