Paul Williams has been appointed advertisement director of the IPC Country & Leisure Group with effect from yesterday. He returns to IPC after a year with Emap Nationals as commercial planning director.IPC Press Office: 0171 261 6575
Overall readership in the national newspaper market fell 3% year on year to 72.657 million during January, an actual fall of 2.317 million readers.It was two tabloid papers, the Daily Star and the People, which showed the largest year on year falls, with respective drops of 12.4% and 9.1%. The Independent meanwhile saw its readership… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – January
Southern Newspapers has released interim financial results for the second-half of the year which show an increase in pre-tax profits from £8.2 million to £9.9 million. Turnover increased from £47.3m to £59.5m.Recruitment, property and national advertising all experienced growth, with ad revenue increasing by 26%. The rise included sales from its South Wales newspapers, which… Continue reading Profits Rise To £9.9m At Southern
ITN has retained the contract to produce news for Channel 4 in the face of competition from Sky News.Under a new contract set to run from January 1999, ITN will continue to produce the weekday flagship C4 news programme and will also launch a new half-hour Saturday evening news bulletin.The decision will come as an… Continue reading ITN Retains C4 News Contract
Following the sale of United Provincial Newspapers (UPN) to venture capitalist group Candover (subscribers see United Sells Northern Newspapers), the Northern newspaper group will continue to be run by UPN area directors.Steve Kendall, area director Northwest, and Steve Auckland, area director Yorkshire, will take care of day-to-day business until a chief executive for UPN is… Continue reading Area Directors To Run UPN In Lieu Of Chief Executive
Revolution, the new media marketing magazine, announced the winners of its first new media awards in the latest edition of the magazine, and gave the best online advertising award to RAC Grand Prix Advertising (http://www.rac.co.uk/).Produced for the RAC’s group communications manager Peter Hawtin by CHBi, the campaign was described by Revolution as ‘simplicity itself, and… Continue reading RAC Scoops Two Revolution New Media Awards
Pearson media group has sold its law and tax publishing business to Thomson Corporation for £70 million. Today’s Financial Times, also owned by Pearson, reports that the sale is the latest in a series conducted under Pearson’s strategy of pruning speciality publishing businesses that are not market leaders in their sectors.Last year the law and… Continue reading Pearson Sells Law Publishing Business For £70m
A report conducted by National Economic Research Associates (NERA), on behalf of the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA), has recommended that the current regulatory controls on the radio industry should be relaxed if the funding required for a successful launch of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) is to be achieved.The Report On UK Commercial Radio’s Future… Continue reading Radio Industry Regulations Should Be Relaxed Says NERA
United News and Media announced at the weekend that it had sold its remaining regional newspapers to venture capital group Candover for £360 million.The sale of the United Provincial Newspapers northern division includes flagship daily titles such as the Yorkshire Post , Yorkshire Evening Post and Lancashire Evening Post among its 44 titles.The titles were… Continue reading United Sells Northern Newspapers
The latest IKEA ad which features a “management consultant” illustrating how you can refurbish your office for around £8,000 has drawn a mass of complaints from viewers. The furniture retailer has now withdrawn the ad.In the ad the woman insinuates that if an office assistant is sacked then the refurbishment can be afforded. Almost 400… Continue reading IKEA Ad Offends Viewers
