Outgoing Storytel CEO Johannes Larcher touted a sales increase of 9% and operating profit of $4.4 million in its second quarter as "the best financial performance in the history of the company." Larcher's replacement, Bodil Ericsson Torp, starts on October 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
Driven by an increase in its physical stores, sales at Indigo Books & Music increased 17.4% in the fiscal year ended April 2, 2022, over fiscal 2021, rising to C$1.06 billion. Canada’s largest bookstore chain had an operating profit of C$29 million, compared to a loss of C$31.9 million in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Bonnier Group has delivered a 35% increase in operating profit in its latest accounts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 10:21:24 UTC ]
Profile Books has reported a “solid” financial year 2018 to 2019 with turnover at £11.4m, a 4% dip on the previous year, while operating profit was “steady” at £983,375. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 21:34:54 UTC ]
Atlantic Books has announced that 2018 saw its first operating profit since 2009. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 19:58:43 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press’ annual report shows the firm had a 42% surge in operating profit from £17.2m to £24.4m for the year to 30th April 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 03:00:52 UTC ]
Despite a decline in sales at Penguin Random House in 2016, the world's largest trade publisher delivered 129 million euros in operating profit to its parent company, Pearson. The sum marks a 43% increase over its profit contribution from 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helped by a strong performance in its cloud services group, Amazon reported an operating profit of $1.1 billion in the first quarter ended March 31, 2016 compared to $255 million in the 2015 first quarter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile has seen a “breakthrough financial year” with turnover exceeding £10m for the first time in the company’s history, the publisher has said. Turnover was up 26% year-on-year to £10.4m with operating profit at just over £1m for the year 2014-2015. The company was named as the Independent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House contributed 24 million pounds in operating profit to Pearson in the first half of 2015, up from 18 million pounds in the same period in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
S&S UK has seen a "challenging year" which has not been helped by a number of staffing changes, its c.e.o Ian Chapman has told The Bookseller. The c.e.o and publisher of S&S UK and International was speaking following the release of S&S's global results by its parent company CBS on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Editor John Micklethwait departs on a high. But print circulation may never be so high - nor fortunes quite so serene – againYou used to judge successful editors by a simple test. How many copies did they sell on day one, and how many on their last day in the chair? Plus, of course, parallel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parragon Books has posted an operating profit of £19.4m in 2014 compared to a loss of £6m the year before, thanks to a company restructure earlier in the year. For the year ending the 31st March 2014, turnover fell 14% to £48m from £56m but “the overall improvement in profitability was due to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber saw a sharp drop in turnover for the year ending March 2014, and made a small operating loss for the year. The independent publisher recorded a turnover for the year of £16.3m, down 18% from £20m in the previous year. From an operating profit of £2.3m in the year to end March 2013, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson made an operating profit of £20m in the first half of 2013, compared with £... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson has announced a decline in operating profit for the first five months of the year, with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ad revenue at The New York Times Co. declined 8.9% in the third quarter from the quarter a year earlier as print ad revenue dropped 10.9% and digital ad revenue slipped 2.2%, the company said today. Circulation revenue, however, increased 7.4% on the strength of growing digital subscriptions and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
UBM plc reports a 25.8 percent increase in operating profit for the first quarter 2012 and an 11.1 percent increase in total revenue, according to unaudited results released today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 20/10/2011 - 09:00 Bertrams' sales and operating profit has dropped marginally in the last year while the book wholesaler said its merger with Dawson Books will increase revenues by a third. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 29/07/2011 - 09:30 Penguin reported lower sales and profits in the first half of 2011 as it adjusted to the "unprecedented challenges" afflicting the publishing sector including the loss of high street booksellers in the US and Australia... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]