Archived news for Feb 2008
United Business Media transforms CMP29 Feb 2008
United Business Media (UBM) today announced that it will restructure CMP Technology (CMP) 
into four new market-focused businesses. Each will be positioned to meet the changing needs of the professional communities and technology markets it serves.
Informa announces end of year results
28 Feb 2008
Business media company Informa has announced their year end results, reporting revenues of £1.13bn and “strong trading” across all three divisions (academic and Scientific, Professional and Commercial) and a “confident outlook” for 2008. Informa’s portfolio includes magazine titles such as Lloyds List, Health Insurance and Cable & Satellite Europe.
United Business Media acquires AeroStrategy data business
28 Feb 2008
United Business Media plc has announced it has acquired AeroStrategy’s aviation data business on behalf of its Commonwealth Business Media division. The business has been acquired for an initial cash consideration of $0.9m, with a further performance-related consideration of up to US$1.2m payable over the next three years.
FT launches fee-based social networking site
27 Feb 2008
The Financial Times' conferences arm has launched a membership forum so that media and technology executives working in the digital, new media, mobile and telecoms sectors can network.
DPA announces new director and chairman
21 Feb 2008
The Data Publishers Association (DPA) today announced a new management line-up to take the association forward in what has become a new age for data and data services.
CMP Technology acquires specialist events business
21 Feb 2008
United Business Media (UBM) this week announced that it has acquired Vision Events on behalf of CMP Technology's channel business. The company has been acquired from Gartner Inc for $11.4m.
Reed Business Information to be sold
21 Feb 2008
Business media company Reed Business Information (RBI) is to be sold by parent company Reed Elsevier. According to Elsevier, RBI is an advertising based business that differs from that of Elsevier, with the market growth profile and performance being less consistent than its parent.
Strategy for the Creative Economy launched
21 Feb 2008
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham will tomorrow launch a strategy for the Creative Economy. In a Ministerial written statement the Minister claims the strategy will aim to 'exploit British talent to the full', 'remove barriers to business growth' and 'invest in reasearch, innovation and the protection of intellectual property. '
Data publishing, shaken not stirred
21 Feb 2008
Data publishing is to explore 'the Martini effect' - anywhere, anyplace, any time as provision of data goes mobile. Jerry Gosney executive director DPA and currently MD of RBI search will chair and moderate a panel of speakers at Magazines and Business Media 08, exploring the potential and the challenges posed by the provision of data to mobile devices.
Information from PPA’s salary survey, useful and unique
14 Feb 2008
A recent questionnaire providing feedback from PPA’s annual salary survey has shown that 71 per cent of respondents felt that the survey provided them with information they wouldn’t otherwise get.
Driven by online expansion, UK business media worth £23bn
14 Feb 2008
The UK business media market has experienced dramatic growth in the past three years, with revenue up 35 per cent, according to the most wide reaching market size research ever undertaken.
‘Beyond the subscription’ research lunch
14 Feb 2008
Key issues and themes arising from a major new research project ‘Beyond the Subscription: tracking the customer journey’ will be discussed at a networking lunch at PPA offices on 10 March. The research, commissioned by PPA’s Customer Direct Marketing Group in conjunction with Royal Mail, is the group’s most ambitious to date.
Business media markets lead DMGT to success
14 Feb 2008
The all encompassing approach taken by international media company Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) is proving a great success in this time of uncertainty. According to an article in the FT this week, the company has reported revenues ahead of expectations, with diversification into business media markets giving them a strong element of consistency.
PPA inputs into review of postal services
14 Feb 2008
In a series of meetings held earlier this week about the Government’s review of the postal services sector, PPA has been engaging with key stakeholders to understand more about the objectives of the review and how the publishing industry can input to it.
Reuters - Thomson deal near to completion
14 Feb 2008
The deal between Reuters and Thomson the biggest business information providers both sides of the Atlantic looks like it will finally come to fruition nearly a year after its initial announcement last May.
Driven by online expansion, UK business media worth £23bn
12 Feb 2008
The UK business media market has experienced dramatic growth in the past three years, with revenue up 35 per cent, according to the most wide reaching market size research ever undertaken.
PPA bolstered by 30 new members in 2007
07 Feb 2008
Over the last year, 30 publishers joined PPA from across the business, consumer and customer sectors.
New research assesses size of business media market
07 Feb 2008
Helen Alexander, chief executive, The Economist Group and Tim Weller, group chief executive, Incisive Media will address 200 business media professionals next week to mark the launch of groundbreaking new research into the business media market.
Stephen Grabiner of APAX to open Magazines and Business Media 2008
07 Feb 2008
Stephen Grabiner has been announced as the keynote speaker on Tuesday 6 May at Magazines and Business Media 2008. Grabiner will be able to provide unique insight into why Private Equity and the City in general has been so supportive of business media in recent years and the immediate future direction for the sector.
The Economist does business abroad with a difference
07 Feb 2008
The Economist has launched a unique series of free audio guides to the world’s top business cities. Aimed at international business travellers, the guides offer candid insider advice on 20 cities from Beijing to Washington DC. They are available to listen to, or download.