JICBUILD’96 has been released today; the third building industry survey of its type to be produced this decade, JICBUILD 96 is sponsred by The Builder Group, Miller Freeman and Barbour Index.Building magazine has again emerged as the most read magazine, with the highest Average Issue Readership of all building titles, at 35%, closely followed by… Continue reading JICBUILD’96 Data Released
General Cable saw operating profits rise to £31.6m in 1995 after sales rose by 18% to £671.7m, helping its new owner Wassall achieve profits of £55.1m.The industrial group acquired General Cable in 1994 and the cable provider’s performance has far outstripped initial expectations. This has been achieved primarily through a restructuring and reorganisation of General… Continue reading General Cable Performs Well For Wassall
Mohamed Al Fayed’s latest offer for the Observer was rejected yesterday by the Scott Trust, owners of the Guardian Media Group. The Trust met to discuss the second offer by Mr Al Fayed, this time up by £10m to £25m.Guardian Media Group issued a statement saying that the company secretary had been instructed to write… Continue reading Observer Not For Sale
The government is set to negotiate a voluntary code of practice among those involved in broadcasting TV highlights of sports events. This comes after Labour withdrew an attempt to force broadcasters, especially satellite companies, to make recorded highlights of such events available to all terrestrial television.Under the proposal agreed in the Lords last night, an… Continue reading Voluntary Code For TV Sports Highlights
Another batch of July-December ABCs have been released. Mac Format shows a significant increase while most of the other specialist titles record losses. Title Jl-Dec 94 Jl-Dec 95 %Ch Actual Ch Mac Format 40,146 50,053 24.67 9,907 PC Format 92,387 102,585 11.03 10,198 PC Gamer 46,152 50,269 8.92 4,117 Future Music 22,118 23,030 4.12 912… Continue reading Latest Jul-Dec ABCs
McCann-Erickson Manchester’s campaign for Sanofi-Winthrop won the agency the Judges’ Gold Award at the 1996 IPA Business-to-Business Advertising awards ceremony. The campaign also won the best campaign award in the UK Business-to-Business Media category. The business-to-business ad sector is worth in excess of £3.1 billion per annum.Other winners were:National press and general business magazines category:Best… Continue reading IPA Advertising Awards
Rosemary Conley Diet & Fitness Magazine, which launched on 18th January this year, is claiming to have exceeded all expectations with a launch sales figure of over 250,000 copies and over 8,000 subscriptions. Its second issue is now on sale and includes highlights such as how “super slimmer” Sarah Casey lost 12 stone and how… Continue reading Rosemary Conley Magazine Success
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/Virgin Radio’s new net site contains information on every aspect of Virgin Radio imaginable: ranging from ratecard information to personal profiles of DJs and staff.The Virgin pages are attractively designed using cartoon-style graphics, bright colours and clever animations. The pages can take time to download and the structure of the site can be confusing –… Continue reading Website Of The Week: Virgin Radio
Regional newspaper group Trinity has recorded profits of £27.5m for 1995, up 20% on 1994’s figure of £22.9m. Turnover was up 2% from £164.5m to £167.9m.Although there were increases in paper prices of around 25% Trinity was able to overcome these through a reduction of 5% in operating expenses. After strong growth in advertising revenues… Continue reading Trinity Hits £27.5m Profit
Football has made its presence felt in this week’s viewing summary, with three top matches being screened. First up on Sky Sports on Monday there was the top of the table clash between the Uniteds of Manchester and Newcastle which was watched by 2.6m, and achieved an individuals TVR of 18.9; this is the second… Continue reading Football, Fussball, Voetbal
