The sales teams for Emap Metro’s Big and Smash Hits are reported to be moving over to Emap Elan’s young women’s glossies group. Editorial for the titles will remain under Emap Metro.The change is intended to allow the two sales teams to pool their resources and contacts and to provide a single point of contact… Continue reading Emap Restructures Its Sales Teams
Barker & Ralston will be merging with management consultancy firm PDP International to create a new company called Mountain View with a combined annual fee income of over £4 million.The main shareholders in the venture will be David Barker and Derek Ralston as well as Thomas Bayne, PDP’s chief executive. The move is a welcome… Continue reading Barker & Ralston Go For Mountain View
The Direct Marketing Association has launched a new Code of Practice which member companies will be expected to comply with by October.The new Code comes at a time when complaints relating to direct marketing are at an all time low. The percentage of complaints made to the Data Protection Registrar have fallen from 49% in… Continue reading New Direct Marketing Code
Football Monthly will be relaunched on 1 August after seven months of being off the newsstands. According to Press Gazette the 46-year-old title has been bought by Chelsea Communications, the media arm of Chelsea Village which also owns Chelsea Football Club.The title will aim to cater for a niche readership in the football magazine market… Continue reading Football Monthly Returns
The Independent Television Commission has awarded the Channel 5 teletext licence to Sky Five Text, which is jointly owned by BSkyB and Channel 5 Broadcasting. It is expected that the service will begin broadcasting within the next year though the actual licence will be granted by the ITC in the next twelve weeks.The licence was… Continue reading Sky Wins C5 Text Licence
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The north London arm of Independent Newspapers will be buying the Kentish Times group of newspapers, it has been announced.Independent, which owns titles including the Camden & St Pancras Chronicle, the Chiswick & West London Guardian and the Ealing & London Recorder, is believed to be paying around £10m for the group which has seventeen… Continue reading Kentish Times Find Buyer
The Radio Authority sees no reason, in terms of plurality of ownership or diversity of output, to terminate the acquisition of Virgin Radio by Capital Radio on the grounds of public interest.No final decision can be made by the Authority until the Office Of Fair Trading has completed its investigation into the competition implications of… Continue reading Radio Authority Approve Virgin Takeover
Euromoney Publications Plc has agreed to acquire all the issued share capital of Institutional Investor Inc from ABC Inc, an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, for $142 million.The directors of Euromoney believe the two groups will bring together two of the strongest brand names in international financial publishing and should create opportunities for… Continue reading New Acquisition For Euromoney
The Advertising Association has welcomed the adoption yesterday by the European Parliament of the Larive Report on the European Commission’s Green Paper on Commercial Communications.Lionel Stanbrook, deputy director-general of the AA, said: “The result is very good from the UK advertising industry’s point of view. This endorsement by the European Parliament has given the Green… Continue reading AA Welcomes Adoption Of Larive Report
