Express Newspapers has dismissed the Express On Sunday‘s editor, Amanda Platell, following the paper’s publication of an article which detailed the private friendship between Peter Mandelson, former Trade Secretary, and a Brazilian student. Ian Walker, the paper’s news editor, has also been given the sack.The dismissals have fuelled the debate that the Labour government has… Continue reading Express On Sunday Editor Dismissed Following Mandelson Story
The BBC’s commercial internet venture, beeb, has appointed David Atter, the former marketing manager behind the Tango ads, to the newly-created post of sales and marketing director. Atter moves from his current position, as director of marketing at Turner Entertainment Networks International, in March.Rupert Miles, director at beeb, said: “David’s marketing experience in the FMCG… Continue reading Beeb Appoints Sales And Marketing Director
Quality Market This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market – up by 11.6%, or 38,000 copies, year on year. In fact, all of the other national broadsheets lost circulation… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – December 1998
Dennis & Beyond, the customer publishing arm of Dennis Publishing, has set up division which is dedicated to producing customer consumer magazines. The company already publishes customer magazines for CompuServe, travel agent Thomson and estate agents, Winkworth, but claims that this is a burgeoning market sector. In 1998 the market grew by 17% year on… Continue reading Dennis & Beyond Launches Customer Consumer Mags Division
Advertising group Ogilvy & Mather has announced that its CEO and deputy chairman, Tom Bury, has decided to leave the company. Mike Walsh, chairman and European chief executive of the group, is currently in the process of finding a replacement for Bury – there have been no announcements as yet.Bury commented on his departure: “I… Continue reading O&M Chief Executive Departs
Underlying inflation rose last month, overshooting the government target rate for the first time since July. New official figures from the Office for National Statistics show the key underlying inflation rate rose from 2.5% in November to 2.6% in December. Headline inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, was down from 3.0% to 2.8%.Subscribers can access… Continue reading Inflation Overshoots Government Target
Quality Market This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market – up by 11.6%, or 38,000 copies, year on year. In fact, all of the other national broadsheets lost circulation… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – December 1998
The possibility of a bidding war for the Mirror Group is looking more and more likely as yesterday’s £913 million takeover offer from Regional Independent Media (see Regional Independent Media Makes £913m Mirror Bid) is understood to have been rejected by Mirror’s majority shareholder, Phillips & Drew Fund Management (P&D).The offer from RIM was made… Continue reading Mirror Faces Possible Bidding War
Carlton Communications has spent £91 million buying a library of more than 300 films and television programmes from Hollywood company Universal Studios. As well as films such as The Eagle Has Landed and The Big Easy, the library includes classic ITV programmes from the past such as The Saint and the mini-series Jesus of Nazareth.Also… Continue reading Carlton Buys Universal Studios Archive
This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market. The Express is in a decline which the poor recent TV ad campaign, created by St Luke’s (its third agency in a… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December 1998
