Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) has reported record annual earnings and profits for the year ending 30 September 2000. Pre-tax profit for the group hit £20m, representing a year on year increase of 27%. Total turnover improved by 30%, reaching £71.7mRichard Findlay, chief executive of SRH commented, “SRH today has a profitable mix of traditional and… Continue reading Scottish Radio Holdings Announces Record Annual Results
New technology could be set to eclipse the beer mat as a way for advertisers to reach pub goers. A pilot programme in a range of bars, clubs and pubs is currently testing the use of plasma screens carrying satellite-delivered content, with links to electronic tills (EPOS) and the internet.It is hoped that the delivery… Continue reading No Chance Of A Quiet Pint As Translucis Targets 18-24 Year Olds In Pubs
Media training organisation Media Circle has launched a website as part of its ongoing project to attract UK university and college graduates towards positions in the commercial side of the media industry.Terry Wheeler, Media Circle’s general secretary said, “Our members want to attract the best graduates to work for them and we decided to extend… Continue reading Media Circle Aims To Attract Graduates With Launch Of Career Website
Cable & Wireless’ new strategy of concentrating efforts on becoming the “leading global provider of internet protocol solutions to business customers” appears to be showing its worth, as interim results for the six months to 30 September have shown pre-tax profit jump by 33% to £4.6bn.£4.2bn of this consisted of the net cash generated by… Continue reading Cable & Wireless Sees New Strategy Deliver Profit Above Expectations
Cable & Wireless releases its interim results today (report to follow on Newsline). The market appeared confident of good news, as the company’s share price rose nearly 5%, ending up 40p at £8.50.Results also had a good effect on WPP shares, although the company itself was not releasing them. Instead, the financial performance of one… Continue reading Sharewatch
Over the last ten years total national newspaper sales have fallen by around 8%, according to trends from the ABC. The bulk of this decline has come from the popular tabloid papers (see previous Media Track), which have seen combined circulation fall by 21% from 17.6 million to 13.9 million. The mid-market sector – the… Continue reading Feature: Broadsheets Buck The Trend Of Falling Circulations
Magazine publishers Future Network made the most dramatic performance among media shares yesterday, as a profits warning issued by the company sent share prices spiralling downwards (see Future Shares In Freefall As True Cost Of Accounting Errors Is Revealed). By the end of the day they had nearly halved in value, ending at £2.60, a… Continue reading Sharewatch
IBM’s latest advertising campaign is believed to be a world’s first, in that it runs across a total of six media platforms. The campaign for the Thinkpad i series 1200, which broke on 6 November, is appearing simultaneously on the Guardian Unlimited PC, email, interactive TV, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and WAP channels as well… Continue reading IBM Campaign Runs Across Six Platforms In World First For Advertising
New research has shown just how much adspend by dotcom and ecommerce advertisers has increased over the last five years. Figures from CIA MediaLab show that spending in this category has increased from £2.6m to £257.1m since 1995. This period has also seen a diversification in the media used by these advertisers, with a decline… Continue reading Research Charts Spending Boom In Dotcom Advertising
Against expectations, the underlying rate of inflation in the UK fell during October, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics. Underlying inflation dropped from September’s figure of 2.2% (see Underlying Inflation Rate Up Again After August’s Record Low) to 2.0%, very comfortably below the Government’s target of 2.5%.Headline inflation for the… Continue reading Underlying Inflation Rate Falls During October
