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- Colin Morrison - 15 June 2019
Hearst UK set for change
The 132-year-old Hearst Corporation is arguably the world’s oldest multi-media group as a 19th century newspaper publisher which invested in magazines and movies before Rupert Murdoch was born. It also has a fair claim to be the best. Not because it has consistently been the most successful in any or all of its chosen media…
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- Colin Morrison - 8 June 2019
Can Time Out make it?
Exactly three years ago, Time Out magazine promoted its £145m IPO by telling would-be investors that the UK’s star fund manager Neil Woodford would be buying shares. It was a prize endorsement from the celebrated stock-picker whose £32m investment ultimately accounted for 35% of the £90m raised by the IPO. But the price was at…
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- Colin Morrison - 1 June 2019
Euromoney prepares for pricing deals
It is 50 years since the ground-breaking Euromoney magazine was launched by the UK’s Daily Mail Group whose finance editor Patrick Sergeant had predicted the expansion of international banking as a result of the UK’s relaxed foreign exchange regulations. Euromoney championed the boom and became the leading magazine of the financial wholesale markets. The £6,200…
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Hearst UK gets ready
Magazines. The 132-year-old Hearst Corporation is arguably the world’s oldest multi-media group as a 19th century newspaper publisher which invested in magazines and movies before Rupert Murdoch was born. It also has a fair claim to be the best. Not because it has consistently been the most successful in any or all of its chosen…
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2019
This week, the redoubtable Mary Meeker (now the general partner at Bond Capital) delivered her annual US Internet Trends Report (see link below), some key points from which are: E-commerce is now 15% of retail sales Worldwide gamers grew by 6% Internet ad spending grew by 22% in the US, some 62% of digital display…
The Maven buys ‘TheStreet’- for 2%
News. The Maven, of Seattle in the US, has agreed to acquire TheStreet Inc for a total price of some $34m – some 2% of the financial media company’s peak value. Both are listed companies. The Maven provides a digital distribution platform for a coalition of over 270 media providers. The news and media platform is…
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