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Archant has announced the appointment of Craig Nayman as its first-ever chief commercial officer, with a brief covering sales and commercial activities right across the company. Craig is a former director of sales for ITV Channels and owner of commercial and sales consultancy Red Cannon. He takes over the role, created when Archant was reorganised into a function-based [...]
Newspaper sales in Ireland appear to be falling slightly faster than in the UK. According to the latest set of ABC figures for the island of Ireland, overall circulation decreased in the second half of 2014 by more than 7% compared to the same six months the year before.Interestingly, papers published in the UK but [...]
More than 230 people have been made redundant at Aylesford Newsprint in Kent, the administrators have confirmed. The newsprint manufacturer, which employs more than 300 people near Maidstone, applied to the courts on Monday to go into administration. The firm, which supplied its newsprint to some of the main newspaper groups in the UK, including DMGT, News [...]
Aylesford Newsprint, which produces 400,000 tonnes of newsprint annually from recycled newspapers and magazines, has now officially been placed into administration. The plant employed a workforce of over 300. The appointed administrators are KPMG. The company told staff yesterday that it was seeking the move. Aylesford is a major buyer of material from local authority sources [...]
Dennis Publishing has placed an order with Papermule for AdDesk. The system, which will be installed at Dennis Publishing’s London office, will automate and streamline the process of chasing, receiving and matching advertisements. Stephen Catherall, Dennis Publishing’s group production manager, said: ‘Papermule were the first company to approach Dennis that seemed to fully understand our production needs and requirements. ‘We [...]
A Second World War bomber pilot who was awarded the DFC, Sir Gordon Linacre became a leading and influential figure in English provincial journalism from the 1980s until his death on Thursday night at the age of 94. He was made chief executive of the extensive United Newspapers group in 1983, and later served as president of [...]
TWELVE months ago, The Irish News, the best performing regional daily morning newspaper among all Irish titles, and PCS, solidified their partnership, as the newspaper took on PCS’s portfolio of publishing solutions. The portfolio includes Knowledge, the editorial solution as well as advertising, production and circulation solutions. The Irish News set out to achieve a fully integrated system, allowing [...]
Hearst Advertising Worldwide (HAW) has confirmed the purchase of an ad DEPOT ad booking and processing system from UK-based software business 5 Fifteen. HAW offers advertisers and clients direct, centralised and simplified access to an expanded and exclusive international portfolio of 335 magazines, 188 websites, radio and TV channels owned by Hearst and its partners. Designed and [...]
Trinity Mirror has become a founding member of a working group which aims to combat online advertisement fraud. Trinity Mirror has joined the new group, which also includes the Financial Times and multinational consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser. Among the aims of the group, named the Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS), will be to publish a list [...]
With exclusive deals and incredible bargains, www.thesunholidays.co.uk will build on the existing strength of The Sun newspaper’s holiday offering News UK has just launched a brand new dedicated holiday website, The Sun Holidays, packed with exclusive offers, great savings and plenty of choice. The huge popularity of The Sun’s annual £9.50 holiday offers – 45 million people have holidayed [...]
