Cable company, Telewest Communications, has appointed Tony Illsley as its new chief executive.Telewest’s previous chief executive, Stephen Davidson decided to step down from the company following its takeover of General Cable in April this year (see Telewest Chief Stands Down). Davidson was succeeded, on a temporary basis, by David Van Valkenburg.Of his appointment, Illsley says:… Continue reading Telewest Appoints New Chief Executive
The marketing director for Beeb.com, Simon Johnson, is leaving the group this week to create a new media consultancy.He will be joining forces with Harry Weber-Brown, who also left the beeb.com last week, where he held the position of head of business affairs.The new commercial consultancy, called Affinity Interactive Media, will be concentrating on developing… Continue reading Beeb Loses Its Marketing Director
The computer sector has proven once again to be a growth marketplace with many titles seeing excellent year on year increases in sales.Notable is the exceptional growth within the Playstation sector. The recent outdoor advertising campaign and revamp of the Future’s Playstation Power title appears to have paid off with a substantial 115.60% year on… Continue reading Playstation Mags Storm The Computer Market
Latest national newspaper figures, released by ABC, show that the overall market has declined by over 900,000 copies year on year.July was the first month to operate under the ABC’s new audit procedures which have been drawn up to end disputes over bulk sales copies (see ABC Attempts To Put An End To Bulk Sales… Continue reading Mirror Retains Daily No. 2 Spot Despite Loss Of Bulk Sales
Newsquest, England’s largest publisher of local and regional newspapers, says its business had grown strongly after its flotation last October.The company made a pre-tax profit of £35.3 million in the 27 weeks to July 5 – almost double the figure of £18.3 million for the first half of last year. Turnover improved from £143.6 million… Continue reading Newsquest Sees Profits Grow
The July Retail Prices Index was announced this morning as 163.0, a decrease of 0.2% on the previous month and a rise of 3.5% on July 1997. The headline rate of inflation last month stood at 3.7%.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
A variety of fortunes was experienced by the music magazines which have a circulation of at least 50,000 in the January-June 1998 ABC figures released on Friday. Of the magazines suffering a loss, music/style mag Face (down from comfortably over the 100,000 barrier to under 80,000) and IPC’s revamped NME were the most unfortunate.Music Mags… Continue reading TOTP Stays Top Of The Pops
Advertising and marketing group WPP has shrugged off the downturn in the Far Eastern market to report rising global sales and profits.The group, which includes the leading advertising agencies Ogilvy and Mather and JWT, said improvements in business in Europe and the US offset any effects of the Far Eastern economic slump.WPP saw sales increase… Continue reading WPP Posts Strong Results Despite Asia Slump
BSkyB announced over the weekend that it was dropping the writ which it issued earlier this year against British Digital Broadcasting (now On Digital) over the compatibility of their set-top boxes needed to unscramble digital signals (see Newsline).Problems have arisen over the compatibility of the set-top boxes with the different digital services (see Newsline). On… Continue reading BSkyB Drops Legal Action
A variety of fortunes was experienced by the music magazines which have a circulation of at least 50,000 in the January-June 1998 ABC figures released on Friday. Of the magazines suffering a loss, music/style mag Face (down from comfortably over the 100,000 barrier to under 80,000) and IPC’s revamped NME were the most unfortunate.At the… Continue reading TOTP Stays Top Of The Pops
