Saga, the family-run business for the over 50’s, is planning to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange. The group, which specialises in a number of services including holidays, numerous radio stations, as well as a best selling magazine, has also been considering a sale to private investors. Since July 2004, Saga customers and… Continue reading Saga Plans To Float On The London Stock Exchange

Holland and Barrett’s Healthy magazine, published by River Publishing, has announced unexpectedly high sales for its September/October issue, bucking the current trend of decline amongst health titles and forcing the publisher to reprint the issue to cope with demand.The reprint will add 50,000 copies to the rapidly declining stocks of the title, which is forecast… Continue reading Healthy Magazine Bucks Trend With Reprint

The Times has announced the launch of a new appointments supplement, published in compact form to target junior to middle managers in the commercial sector following the success of its Public Agenda insert.The new supplement, entitled Career, will be published on a weekly basis from 16 September, offering readers in-depth editorial content about jobs and… Continue reading The Times Builds Job Pages With Career Supplement

The Independent is hoping to woo media planners and buyers with a viral marketing campaign and video game designed to raise the profile of its recently launched compact edition and attract more advertising revenue.The ‘Compact Catch’ game has been e-mailed to over 600 key industry figures and the newspaper hopes it will spread further from… Continue reading Independent Targets Planners And Buyers With Viral Push

Four of IPC Connect’s leading women’s weekly titles have come together in a promotion that will see readers offered a £30,000 package of prizes in an attempt to build brand loyalty and drive cross-purchase.The so-called ‘Highlife’ promotion will launch in this week’s issues of Woman, Woman’s Own, Woman’s Weekly and Chat. It will run for… Continue reading IPC Links Woman’s Weeklies For Cross-Title Promotion

Advertisers continued to return to television and national newspapers in the second quarter of this year as the economic recovery gathered steam. The latest figures from the Advertising Association show that total UK adspend rose by a solid 5.7% year on year to just under £3.7 billion, as confidence slowly returned to the industry and… Continue reading UK Adspend Shows Solid Growth In Second Quarter

The government’s media regulator, Ofcom, has today outlined the steps that have to be taken to ensure that UK broadcasters are ready for a fully digital future by as early as 2007. The consultation document, adds weight to previous reports that said, analogue switch-off will become a reality for commercial television stations including; ITV, Channel… Continue reading Ofcom Puts Steps In Place For Early Digital Swith-Over

Consumer magazine publisher, Future Network, has today warned profits have been held back as a result of a weak Dollar, despite pre-tax profits growing by 7% during the first six months of this year. From January to June 2004, pre-tax profit rose to £7.2 million, up from £6.7 million year-on-year, while operating profit rose 9%… Continue reading Future Network Profits Up 7% Despite The Impact Of A Weak Dollar

After losing out in the Grey Global bidding battle to WPP, shareholders of advertising group, Havas, are saying that the French-based company is looking increasingly vunerable and may be next to be put under the hammer, says the Financial Times. According to the FT, the Havas shareprice rallied yesterday when it pulled out of the… Continue reading Havas May Be Next Under The Acquisition Hammer

Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP is to acquire Grey Global for £845 million in a deal that brings it neck and neck with US-owned Omnicom for the title of the world’s largest advertising agency. WPP saw off competition from French advertising group Havas and San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman with a knockout bid… Continue reading WPP Wins Battle For Grey With £845 Million Bid