Consumer spending is predicted to slow during 1998, with consumer durables being the worst hit, according to a report published by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).The Quarterly State of the Market Report forecasts that consumer durables, especially car sales, will feel the effect of an economic climate where building society windfalls are less and… Continue reading Consumer Boom Is Over, Says CIM
Here is the latest addition to the ever growing crop of BBC magazines. One by one the powers at the Beeb are turning programme after programme into glossy mags – some are hits (take for example the continuing success of Top Of The Pops Magazine which saw a 71% increase in its last ABC) while… Continue reading First Issue Review – Tomorrow’s World Magazine
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has announced that it plans to use internet browser software in its digital cable television services. It has placed an order with Network Computer Inc. (NCI), an affiliation between Oracle and Netscape, for the DTV Navigator – software which will use the internet to deliver interactive services to customers’ televisions.Graham… Continue reading CWC To Incorporate The Net With Its Digital Cable Service
Scottish Media Group has today reported a sharp rise in underlying profits for the year to December 31.Pre-tax profits fell from £61.2 million to £37 million in the year to December 31, on turnover up from £127 million to £197 million. The previous year’s figure was boosted by a one-off profit of £38 million on… Continue reading Underlying Profits Grow At Scottish Media Group
The chief financial officer of BSkyB, Nick Carrington, died suddenly last Friday after a short illness. He was aged 47, and had worked at BSkyB since 1995 (as well as from 1989 to 1991), and joined the main board at the beginning of the year.This could cause further personnel upheavals at a time when Sky… Continue reading BSkyB Chief Dies After Short Illness
The heart sinks at the first glimpse of No Limits World , the new “extreme lifestyle” title from Future. A busty brunette pouts from the cover above the line “Thrills, Excitement, Challenge…Its All Out There (And In Here!)”. In fact it looks like a carbon-copy of AIM’s Adrenalin magazine but, as with that title, the… Continue reading First Issue Review – No Limits World
Emap On Air has appointed Charlie Norton as head of sponsorship and promotions for Emap’s television interests which include The Box and Magic TV, due for launch this Spring (subscribers see Box To Launch Sister Channel). Norton joins Emap On Air from Kiss TV where he was commercial manager.Tom Toumazis, managing director of Emap On… Continue reading Emap Appoints New Head Of TV Sponsorship & Promotions
The proposed £17.5 billion merger of Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer has been abandoned, it has just emerged.A statement from Reed says that the decision was made by the boards of Reed International, Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer due to disagreements over the terms of the merger.During the last few days Wolters Kluwer made it known… Continue reading Reed And Wolters Call Off Merger
The European Commission has agreed a Communication which aims to encourage cross-border “commercial communications” whilst ensuring protection of consumer rights.The measures include the application of a transparent method of assessing whether restrictions on cross-border commercial communications are proportional to public interest objectives, an accelerated complaints process and the creation of a group of Member States’… Continue reading EC Encourages Cross-Border Ad Campaigns
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has asked the government to investigate whether there is a case for referring The Times‘ ownership by News International to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC).Ashdown has asked industry secretary Margaret Beckett to consider whether News International has broken the agreement it made when it bought The Times in 1981… Continue reading Ashdown Asks For Inquiry Into Times Ownership
