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Quebecor, Operating Under Bankruptcy Protection, Announces Results
Quebecor World Inc., which is operating under Chapter 11 protection in the United States and creditor protection in Canada, generated $976 million in revenue from continuing operations during its second quarter. ...
Ziff Davis Media Declares Bankruptcy
Ziff Davis yesterday announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to pay down its debt and restructure....
Live From Circ Day: Time’s Stengel Celebrates Online, Offline Content Differences
Not only can online and offline media products co-exist under the same brand, if positioned correctly both can offer value to a reader, according to Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel....
E.U. Printer Drops DM to Improve Bottom Line
One of the largest printing services companies in the European Union, Schott Gruppe AG, based in Freudenstadt, Germany reported on Jan. 11 that the disposal of its direct marketing division significantly improved its bottom line. ...
Transcontinental, Seven Squared, Form Joint Venture
Transcontinental Media has teamed up with U.K.-based agency Seven Squared to launch of Transcontinental Custom Communications, a company that will furnish custom publishing services to clients in Canada and the U.S. ...
Who Are You?
Do you fancy yourself a obsessed with making your children all they can be, before they're even potty trained? Or maybe you're Ms. Independent, a woman...
Get 'Em Talking
Everyone knows what word-of-mouth marketing is, but do they know how to make it work for their organization? The mission of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation...
Get Real!
The National Association of Realtors claims more than 1.3 million members. To hear Lois K. Geller tell it, when she moved her direct marketing agency...
Prism Business Media to Buy Publisher Penton
Prism Business Media Holdings, the B-to-B media company whose portfolio includes Direct and Multichannel Merchant magazines, announced it has agreed to buy the stock of Penton Media for $194.2 million. ...
Live From Total Circulation 06: Yoga Journal Builds Sub List Online
Who said that only large magazines can build a strong online subscription business? Smaller publications can do it, too. Take the case of Yoga Journal, a niche periodical that appears seven times a year. ...
Live from the ACCM Show: Learning from Circulation History
[Multichannel Merchant] If you don’t understand your past, you won’t be aware of your future. That was the underlying theme of yesterday’s session on circulation planning and analysis, part of the Circulation Intensive here at the Annual Conference for Catalog & Multichannel Merchants (ACCM)....
Quebecor Closes Book, Magazine Facilities
Quebecor World Inc., Montreal, will shutter a book manufacturing plant in Kingsport, TN, and a magazine printing location in Brookfield, WI. Items that had been produced at these two facilities will be transferred to other Quebecor printing locations....
Delivery Drama
LOUISIANA ENTHUSIASTS doubtless understood if their fall issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas came a little late last year: The quarterly magazine's fall...
Time Inc. Settles With States Over Autorenew, Solicitations
Time Inc. will set aside $4.3 million for consumers as part of a settlement with 23 states over its billing practices. The publisher will also hand $200,000 to the states to cover their investigation costs....
Live from New Orleans: Publisher Faces the Cost of Doing Business – With The USPS
Louisiana enthusiasts doubtless understood if their fall issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas came a little late last year: The quarterly publication’s fall issue should have rolled off the presses and into the mail on Sept. 30, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina it wasn’t finished and in the mail until Nov. 15...
Hachette Filipacchi, Alloy Team Up in Marketing Deal
Hachette Filipacchi Media has joined forces with Alloy Inc. to build circulation and ad revenue for ELLEgirl magazine and grab a larger share of the teenage...
Skyguide Gains Altitude
American Express Publishing has improved the renewal rate for its Skyguide business traveler program by adding an online component. Roughly 10,000 people...
PAGE TURNER
Sure, it's easy to get people to come to the show. But getting them to buy a ticket is another story. Chet Van Wert, strategic marketing director for...
Whose WORD IS IT ANYWAY?
The text of a direct response e-mail (not the subject line, where spam filters would kill it, dismember it and heave it into the Ganges River) suggests:...
McDonald's, Scholastic Launch Program
McDonald's Corp. has budgeted about $1 million for a customized marketing campaign it will conduct with Scholastic Corp. Like a similar one last year,...
Boys Will Be Boys
What do men want? That is, men who are young, single, spendthrifty and care deeply about how Jessica Simpson appears in a push-up bra? Freud never asked,...
Still the Champ
Never mind the young bulls: Playboy is still the magazine to beat. The magazine founded by Hugh Hefner in 1953 has a monthly circulation of more than...
Bookspan Rolls Out Hispanic Book Club
Hispanics, now the largest minority in the United States, are being targeted in a major push by Bookspan for its Spanish-language book club Mosaico. The...
Columbia House Adds Member Services
Columbia House members will be offered a range of new services thanks to a strategic agreement between that firm and Trilegiant Corp. Trilegiant's membership...
Three Plead Guilty in Subscription Fraud Case
Three men will be sentenced next month for their part in a nationwide magazine subscription fraud scheme. Dennis James Ward, Michael O'Malley McKee and...
