Dennis & Beyond, the customer publishing arm of Dennis Publishing, has set up division which is dedicated to producing customer consumer magazines. The company already publishes customer magazines for CompuServe, travel agent Thomson and estate agents, Winkworth, but claims that this is a burgeoning market sector. In 1998 the market grew by 17% year on… Continue reading Dennis & Beyond Launches Customer Consumer Mags Division
Advertising group Ogilvy & Mather has announced that its CEO and deputy chairman, Tom Bury, has decided to leave the company. Mike Walsh, chairman and European chief executive of the group, is currently in the process of finding a replacement for Bury – there have been no announcements as yet.Bury commented on his departure: “I… Continue reading O&M Chief Executive Departs
Underlying inflation rose last month, overshooting the government target rate for the first time since July. New official figures from the Office for National Statistics show the key underlying inflation rate rose from 2.5% in November to 2.6% in December. Headline inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, was down from 3.0% to 2.8%.Subscribers can access… Continue reading Inflation Overshoots Government Target
Quality Market This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market – up by 11.6%, or 38,000 copies, year on year. In fact, all of the other national broadsheets lost circulation… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – December 1998
The possibility of a bidding war for the Mirror Group is looking more and more likely as yesterday’s £913 million takeover offer from Regional Independent Media (see Regional Independent Media Makes £913m Mirror Bid) is understood to have been rejected by Mirror’s majority shareholder, Phillips & Drew Fund Management (P&D).The offer from RIM was made… Continue reading Mirror Faces Possible Bidding War
This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market. The Express is in a decline which the poor recent TV ad campaign, created by St Luke’s (its third agency in a… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December 1998
The ITV drama Trial And Retribution II, broadcast in October last year, led to 42 public complaints being sent to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) concerning the violent and explicit nature of some of the programme’s sequences.The programme contained scenes of mutilated women which were broadcast very shortly after the 9pm watershed. Yorkshire Television, the… Continue reading ITV Drama Incites Public Complaints Of Violence
This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market. Up by 11.6%, or 38,000 copies, year on year, only the two Mail titles are matching the FT‘s progress. The Daily Mail… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December 1998
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has spoken out against plans by Royal Mail to increase magazine mailing rates by 5% from 26 April. The increase in rates could hurt the UK’s magazine subscriptions industry. PPA chief executive, Ian Locks, says that publishers would be disappointed at the rise in rates, especially when set against a… Continue reading Magazine Publishers Attack Mailing Rate Increase
Regional sales house, Amra, has taken over representation of the Scottish & Universal Newspapers (S&UN) titles across its London and Manchester offices as from today. Advertising on the S&UN papers, which are owned by Trinity International, was previously sold through Mediaforce.Since Trinity bought Amra in November last year (see Trinity Acquires Amra) it has been… Continue reading Amra Takes Over Scottish & Universal Sales
