By Stephen Foster on December 19, 2012
‘Strewth. I don’t think even the Americans, who have all sorts of editors populating their interminable mastheads, have ‘brand editors.’ But that’s what former PR Week editor Rogers (left) – who is also editor in chief of the Brand Republic group, how many titles can a man have? – is becoming. He is replacing long-serving [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, PR | Tagged Arif durrani, brand editors, campaign, Claire Beale, Danny Rogers, haymarket, Maisie McCabe, marketing
By Stephen Foster on December 4, 2012
In an illuminating interview with Matthew Gwyther, editor of Management Today. Sorrell has just been voted their business leader of the year, or something, so he fronts up and reveals some of what bugs him personally – his relationship with his father, his (very expensive) divorce and his feeling that he is the proprietor of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Finance, News | Tagged haymarket, management today, Matthew Gwyther, pay row, personal life, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 21, 2012
Recently-appointed UK Newspaper Marketing Agency boss Rufus Olins, former CEO of research operation WARC and before that of Haymarket’s business titles, is relaunching the Newspaper Marketing Agency as Newsworks. Olins says: “The media landscape is evolving fast and this is affecting the national press as much as any other medium. We need to start thinking [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Research | Tagged digital platforms, from newspapers to newsbrands, guardian, haymarket, mail online, newspaper marketing agency, newsworks, relaunch, Rufus Olins, uk newspapers, warc
By Stephen Foster on October 7, 2011
Life looked a bit grim for Haymarket, publisher of Campaign, Management Today, Brand Republic and What Car? among many others, last year after a pre-tax loss in 2009 of £3.7m. This was only the half of it as the company, now wholly-owned by the Heseltine family, was forced to mortgage its collection of properties around [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged brand republic, campaign, hammersmith hq, haymarket, losses, management today, media week, Michael Heseltine, paywall, profits, Rupert Heseltine, what car
By Angie Dean on September 7, 2011
Samsonite and JWT Shanghai won the Press Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes international Festival of Creativity and now Samsonite has picked up advertiser of the year at Asia’s Spikes awards, organised by Cannes and Haymarket. It’s Samsonite’s 100th anniversary so there will have been a few rumbles that this particular gong is rather too [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 100th anniversary, advertisier of the year, asia, cannes, haymarket, jwt shanghai, press grand prix, samsonite, spikes awards
By Stephen Foster on June 28, 2011
And how long will it be before other leading Centaur titles like Marketing Week, Creative Review, The Lawyer and Money Marketing follow Design Week and New Media Age into online-only publishing? That’s where Design Week and New Media Age are headed anyway while Pitch, the website aimed primarily at ad agencies, has lost all three [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged brand republic, campaign, centaur, creative review, cutbacks, david benady, design week, haymarket, Louise Black, marketing, Marketing Week, new media age, online, pitch, sonnoo singh
By Stephen Foster on October 8, 2010
If you were a quoted media company and lost 20 per cent of your sales in a year, without a major disposal, the directors would be queueing on the nearest window sill to meet their fate. But Haymarket, which publishes Campaign, Marketing, Autocar and Management Today did just that last year, sales dropping from £273m [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged autocar, campaign, haymarket, Lindsay Masters, management today, Michael Heseltine, Rupert Heseltine
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