Archived news for Mar 2006
Competition for campaign to promote business & professional media31 Mar 2006
PPA is inviting its members’ in-house creative teams to pitch for a generic advertising campaign to fly the flag for business media brands under the umbrella ‘PPA Business and Professional’.
Ian Hislop to present Magazines 2006 awards
30 Mar 2006
Ian Hislop has been confirmed as the presenter of the PPA awards for editorial and publishing excellence on Wednesday 3 May at London’s Grosvenor House. In their 26th year, PPA’s prestigious awards have attracted some 811 entries across 22 consumer, business and customer publishing categories.
Yahoo search guru to speak at international business media conference
30 Mar 2006
Stephen Taylor, RVP and MD of Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Search Marketing, Europe, is the latest speaker to sign up to the Fifth international FIPP business magazine and professional media conference taking place as part of Magazines 2006 from 1-3 May.
The Economist announces John Micklethwait as new editor
29 Mar 2006
The Economist Group’s board of directors has chosen John Micklethwait as the 16th editor of The Economist, succeeding Bill Emmott on 1 April.
United Business Media expands events presence in China
28 Mar 2006
United Business Media (UBM) has announced that its CMP Asia division has expanded its events business in China with the joint acquisition of a majority stake in the Guangzhou Beauty Fair. The acquisition is being made with BolognaFiere Group, CMP Asia’s joint venture partner for its Asian beauty industry events. CMP Asia and BolognaFiere Group will also launch a new event, Cosmoprof Shanghai, with the first show scheduled for January 2007.
IPA launches healthcare awards website
27 Mar 2006
IPA has launched a new IPA best of health awards website. The awards showcase creativity in healthcare advertising accross magazines, posters, tv, radio, direct mail and new media.
Regulation changes to affect animal medicine advertising
23 Mar 2006
Changes in the regulations affecting the advertising and promotion of animal health medicines will be the subject of a meeting at PPA’s offices on 24 April at 3:00pm. As a result of the legislation, which will remain under review, the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) will present its Code of Practice to publishers.
UK ad spend rises 2.1 per cent in 2005
23 Mar 2006
Advertising expenditure in the United Kingdom rose by 2.1 per cent between 2004 and 2005 according to figures published this week in the Quarterly Survey of Advertising Expenditure, researched and compiled by the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) on behalf of the Advertising Association (AA).
United Business Media expands its presence in India
16 Mar 2006
United Business Media (UBM) has announced a number of initiatives to expand its presence in India. UBM’s healthcare division, CMPMedica, has acquired a set of assets from Mediworld Publications, an Indian medical publisher.
DMGT reports strong growth in business divisions
16 Mar 2006
The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) has released a trading statement updating investors on the group’s progress in the current year, ahead of its half year end on 2nd April 2006.
The Group reports that businesses-facing divisions are seeing good growth in revenues and are finding new opportunities while consumer-facing divisions have seen continuing difficult conditions. Overall, the Group remains on track for a satisfactory year.
Business and professional publishers highlight growth
16 Mar 2006
Business and professional media publishers Incisive Media, Wilmington Group and Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) have all reported revenue growth in statements released this week.
Siemens global media director to speak at London 06
09 Mar 2006
A raft of new speakers have been confirmed for the fifth international FIPP business magazine and professional media conference taking place as part of Magazines 2006 on 2-3 May.
VNU agrees to public offer from private equity group
08 Mar 2006
VNU N.V., the global information and media company, and Valcon Acquisition B.V., a holding company newly incorporated in the Netherlands, have announced that they have agreed to a public offer for VNU that values the company’s equity at EUR 7.5bn, or EUR 28.75 per common share.
ABC announces rule changes for business magazines
07 Mar 2006
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) Council has ratified changes to the business to business magazine standard audit rules.
Leading in the information world – London 06
02 Mar 2006
How can publishers remain relevant and profitable in the information world? Helen Alexander (pictured), chief executive of The Economist Group, Joseph Kasputys, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Global Insight and Claus Wüstenhagen, CEO, Vogel Business Medien will debate this topic and the issues surrounding it at the fifth international FIPP business magazine and professional media conference on 2 May.
The great B2B debate - brand vs search
02 Mar 2006
Claridges was the venue for the ‘great B2B marketing debate’ this week. Richard Bush, managing director of Base One made the case for brand marketing while Russ Cohn, head of B2B vertical markets at Google championed search marketing. The debate was chaired by Joel Harrison, editor of B2B Marketing magazine.