Derek Hemment has been appointed deputy chief executive of Laser and Philip France has been appointed managing director. Gary Knight and Simon Pardon are both appointed as executive sales directors and will jointly manage the newly-merged sales department, supported by six account directors. Ian McCulloch is operations director.Mick Desmond, Chief Executive of Laser, said, “We… Continue reading Laser Restructuring – Appointments
In recent years the men’s monthly magazines market has grown considerably. There are currently nine titles in the market. Four were launched in the past five years with the latest addition, Ikon, launching at the end of July.The expanding sector has seen massive growth in terms of copies sold lately; in a year on year… Continue reading Mens Monthly Style Magazine Roundup
The Telegraph has released what it claims is the first ever global qualitative research live on the Internet for its on-line version, the Electronic Telegraph. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk).The results show that the majority of users are male and under 40, intelligent and computer literate. Most readers use computers in their jobs in industries ranging from business to… Continue reading ET Users – Not Readers Of Any Other Paper
Coca-Cola has appointed Publicis as its local service agency for Europe, replacing McCann-Erickson. The move does not however affect the creative work, which will continue to be carried out by the Creative Services Agency. Media planning and buying will still be carried out by McCanns.
Channel 4 has announced its proposed budget for next year. It will rise by 15% from £230m to £265m, with expansion for every area of the schedule. The Word will not be included in the new season after the budget.Youth commissioning editor David Stevenson said “Channel 4 is committed to constant innovation and that should… Continue reading Channel 4 Axes The Word
TSMS has promoted its operations director Gill Emery to assistant managing director; Ian Davis, joint sales director becomes agency sales director, and Andy Farwell, joint sales director becomes sales negotiations director.
IPC is claiming that Loaded magazine has taken market leadership in the younger men’s lifestyle magazine sector with a 26% share of all advertising pages for July issues.In an internal review of pages, Loaded achieved 54.2 pages in comparison to Sky with 44.3, FHM with 45.8, The Face with 35 and I-D with 28.8.Karen Swan,… Continue reading Loaded Claims 26% Of All July Ad Pages
Mills and Allen has replaced its departing sales director, Michael Higgins, with Paul Shearring, current group head.
BBJ Media Services have just published the initial results from a long-term study into the media habits of young people. The project, Media 2000, is monitoring 2 groups taken from 2 secondary schools in West London.Media 2000 will track one set of 202 fourteen-year olds through until the year 2000, recording on a quarterly basis… Continue reading Tango Is Most Popular Ad Among School Children
SelecTV has announced preliminary results for the year ending 31 March 1995. The financial results show a pre tax profit of £1.32m compared with £926,000 in 1994. Profits for this year were boosted by the London cable station Channel 1.SelecTV announced that if UKTV is awarded the Channel 5 licence, it will subscribe to 20%… Continue reading SelecTV Preliminary Results
