Former Loaded editor James Brown has unveiled his long anticipated men’s magazine, Jack, which goes on sale this week promising an “orgy of war, animals, fashion, genius and cool.”The A5 format magazine, which launches on Thursday priced at £2.50, is intended to provide an alternative to the existing lad’s mag titles, which Brown has described… Continue reading James Brown Unveils Jack
The Sunday Telegraph Magazine is to become the latest title to follow the trend for redesigns among national newspapers. It will relaunch on 19 May in a new, all-glossy format with a separate, pocket-sized TV and radio guide.The size of the new design magazine will be slightly smaller than the current one, at 310x240mm, and… Continue reading Sunday Telegraph Magazine To Have May Relaunch
Pre-tax profits at marketing and communications company, Cordiant Communications, more than halved in 2001 following a year of restructuring and cost-cutting. Profits fell by 52.2% from £57.5 million in 2000 to £25.7 million for the year ended 31 December 2001. This is excluding exceptional items and goodwill, after which Cordiant posted a pre-tax loss of… Continue reading Cordiant Profits Hit By ‘Extremely Difficult’ Year
Continued weakness in the US economy has pushed WPP Q1 revenues down by 2% on last year, £945.8 million for the period to end of March 2002 compared with £966.4 million last year. A 6% revenue increase in Europe was abrogated by a drop of 7% in North America, the UK was up over 2%.… Continue reading Continued US Weakness Hits WPP Revenues
Kirch Group’s loss making pay-TV division, Premiere World, has been approached by a number of interested parties hoping to take a stake in the business, chairman Goerg Kofler has told the Financial Times Deutschland in an interview. Recent speculation has been over the possibility of BSkyB increasing its 22% stake in Premiere World, although the… Continue reading Kirch Pay-TV Receives Suitor Interest, Says FT Deutschland
Following the release of Q1 sales totals, Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia yesterday slashed its growth forecasts for 2002, knocking confidence in the telecoms market and causing its shares to plummet. Recently renewed optimism, brought about in part by Motorola’s reassurance that it was on target to attain positive growth this year, was reversed as… Continue reading Nokia Slashes Growth Forecasts For 2002
SMG saw shares rise 3.13% yesterday to close at £1.48˝, despite revealing in its year end results that pre-tax profits fell by 39.0% to £36.0 million in the twelve months to 31 December 2001 (see SMG Profits Hit By Ad Downturn).Telewest also performed well yesterday, with shares rising 15.63% to finish at 9ź, in what… Continue reading Sharewatch
Emap’s new teen gossip weekly, Sneak, is to tap into the earning potential of the SMS texting craze by introducing an SMS gossip service for readers which will enable Emap to build a user database which could later be used by advertisers.The SMS gossip service will launch along with the magazine on 30 April (see… Continue reading Sneak To Offer SMS Interactivity
66% of UK businesses have access to the internet and a further 7% plan to go online within the next year, according to Continental Research’s E-Commerce report for April 2002.The report shows that the growing number of companies accessing the internet is stimulating the e-commerce market, with 38% of UK businesses already running a website… Continue reading Over 60% Of UK Businesses Are Online
The regional press has secured a deal worth £1m, forming part of National Lottery operator Camelot’s “Good Causes” campaign. The three phase campaign represents a third of the company’s media spend.Media planning for the campaign, which will run across 70 regional titles nationwide, reaching a circulation of just under 4.9 million, was handled by MPG.… Continue reading £1m Lottery Ad Deal For Local Press
