Luxury Publishing, customer publisher for upmarket clients such as personal concierge outfit Quintessentially, has gone into administration.
September 15, 2009
July 9, 2009
Cre8 tive acccounting
Cre8, the publisher of various football magazines including Arsenal, Tottenham, Celtic, Rangers and QPR has gone into voluntary liquidation.
The situation is a little uncertain, but seems linked to the company’s recent involvement with a hotel in Peterborough. The fact that it’s a voluntary liquidation raises the possibility of a phoenix operation with some of the more profitable assets being bought and reborn by the owners. (more…)
January 29, 2009
Lies, damn lies and growth forecasts
You’ve got to feel sorry for trade bodies such as the PPA and APA. They’ve got to keep maintaining that the publishing model is just about as perfect as it can be and that everyone is doing wonderfully well – continuing to try to justify their existence while the world collapses around their members’ ears. One of the ways they do this is to commission ludicrous research that proves that everything is great and will get even greater (so keep on coughing up the membership fees).
The latest example of this is the APA’s wonderful statement that Customer publishing set to top £1bn despite downturn. (more…)
January 7, 2009
Property slump
Brooklands Publishing called in the administrators on 23 December (Merry Christmas employees!). That means A Place in the Sun magazine and associated exhibition has gone south. What will happen to their much reduced clutch of customer mags (which were mainly for car manufacturers and airlines) remains to be seen.
A great mix of recession vulnerable titles – second homes abroad, cars and airlines.
April 2, 2008
Ad-funded+’slowdown’+print=doomed
Press Gazette: “Publicis Blueprint is to axe a third of its staff, several magazines and is negotiating the departure of its chief executive… the company … is abandoning several of its ad-funded magazines. It has already closed DVD rental company Blockbuster’s title and is in discussions over accounts for a number of hotel chain magazines. It will now turn to a fee based or part-fee part ad-funded model for titles”
