2016-03-19 18:53
News today that Mike Danson, who sold \Datamonitor a few years ago or more than £200m, has now sold his stake in Dods (formerly Huveaux), to the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative par… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
The departure of Stephen Grabiner from APAX is hardly a surprise. Bright, able and very ambitious, notwithstanding when your job is to make money from media investments and you lose most of… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Centaur has announced ite largest aquistion in many years paying £1.9m for taxbriefs. This business was founded back in 1975 - so its hardly an overnight success but does appear to be… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Tim Weller telling the tale of how Incisive Media got through its debt crisis Read More
2010-05-18 15:31
Although Centaur and others have been reporting a modest recovery in advertising, this is compared to the horros of last year. Rtraher in the same way that a itanic survivor might have broke… Read More
2010-05-05 07:37
We know now what the future for many business magazines will be. Many observers are surprised that the big behemoths of business media have not been more active in disposing of a tail of ass… Read More
2010-04-19 09:15
The defintion of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. News today that RBI owned Computer Weekly is laying off more editorial staf… Read More
2010-03-10 10:58
Older readers might remember that Findlay Publications fell into administration last year and then come back to life. At the time Ed Tranter, a director, said that the only reason this had… Read More
2010-02-19 16:27
The Reed Elsevier results presented for the first time by a slightly nervous looking CEO contain some clues not only for the future of Reed but also the future of business media in general… Read More
2010-02-02 14:04
The Geldof backed Tenalps, home of Kent TV and Teachers TV has acquired some magazine assets from RBI in Asia. This follows the disposal of assets in the USA and Australia. No news of the mo… Read More
2010-01-20 23:11
Oh dear. The PPA has announced its new CEO. A print man through and through apparently. At the same time the AOP starts to distance itself from the PPA. What use is this to business media co… Read More
2010-01-07 21:00
RBI has told its emlpoyees in the USA that it is selling many of its controlled circulation titles and closing others. There will be job losses. I hear there were no bidders for the entire b… Read More
2009-12-16 10:47
Both The Times and PG have reported on the Emap debt mountain focussing on their posted accounts which question its future as a going concern. Message to all at Emap. Don't panic. Well n… Read More
2009-12-11 08:42
Lord Hesletine is standing down as Executive Chairman of the company he founded. He will be a tough act to follow. In an exhaustive executive search, carefully reviewing all the talent avail… Read More
2009-11-26 09:34
DMGT has released its preliminary results. ALthought the headline talks about something called "b2b resilience" the truth is much flakier. If we ignore currency movements underlying revenues… Read More
2009-11-23 07:54
Centaur has described with some optimism current trading. The year on year revenu decline has slowed from 32% to 28%. The world is so awful that this is seen as good news these days. Expect… Read More
2009-11-17 15:39
It wasn't long ago we were mourning the demise of Press Gazette only to see it jolted back to life by Mike Danson. Now Media Week is to close. There will be no saviour. Haymarket has always… Read More
2009-11-12 16:26
RBI has announced the closure of Contract Journal. Once highly profitable with a bucket full of tenders ads and recruitment, this recession has finally killed it off. Of course the constru… Read More
2009-11-11 12:08
Ian Smith, the newly installed CEO of Reed Elsevier is leaving with immediate effect. Press Gazette reports that the board concluded he was the wrong man from the current economic circumstan… Read More
2009-11-03 18:30
As Paid Content points out, Emap has flip flopped on strategy for some time. Now all content on their web sites is to drop behind a pay wall. Unless there is an investment in new high value… Read More
2009-10-27 10:03
Who said this,“Stabilise. Revitalise. Grow”,Here's a clue. It was said in 2003 by a leading media executive.Now, next question. Who said this,"Stabilise. Revitalise. Grow". It wa… Read More
2009-10-22 09:52
The Government has launched a web site for schools to use when recruiting. Local newspaper editors are already bleating about the damage this may do to their business. But the biggest benfi… Read More
2009-10-22 08:39
Thanks to a reader for noting that Centaur has announced the retirement of Graham Sherren as Chairman of Centaur. He will stay on as a non executive for 12 months. Will this lead to a chan… Read More
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