Egmont group's profits rise in 'best year ever'

Denmark-based Egmont Group said it achieved its “best year ever” in 2014, as pre-tax profit for the year totalled €127m (£92.5m), a 36% increase from 2013. All divisions recorded improvements in their underlying operations and overall revenues for 2014 grew 10% to €1.6bn (£1.2bn). Ebitda (profit before interest, depreciation and amortisation) increased 34% to €237m (£172.5m), also a “record high”, said the company. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Watch time at YouTube 'growing 50% a year'

Publishers who do not have a strategy related to YouTube are missing an opportunity, publicists and marketeers were told at a YouTube conference held yesterday (27th October) in association with The Bookseller. The event, held at the YouTube offices in St Giles High Street, and aimed at giving... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book prices may rise as VAT law kicks in

Publishers and retailers will aim to prevent ebook prices from soaring when a new European-wide VAT law on digital products is introduced on 1st January. Following a European Commission ruling dating back to 2008, ebooks and other digital services—including broadcasting and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At NCIBA, Landon Touts Group's 'Solid' Finances

At this year’s show, which took place October 23-24 in San Francisco, executive director of NCIBA, Hut Landon, said the trade organization's "financial picture is solid." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion creates group publicity department

Orion has created a new group publicity department, to be headed by Helen Richardson, who takes on the role of group publicity and communications director. The new department will comprise of two teams – a non-fiction team led by deputy publicity director Elizabeth Allen, and a fiction team led... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First-half revenue and profit fall at Bloomsbury

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[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Icon signs Vintage Years columnist

Icon Books has signed a book from the anonymous Guardian columnist behind 'The Vintage Years'. The author of the column, who was known in the newspaper only as 'The Invisible Woman', was revealed last year as Helen Walmsley-Johnson, a former PA for the Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger, who... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto expected to have annual profits of $12.2m

Publisher Quarto Group is aiming for profits of more than $12m this year, chief financial officer (c.f.o.) Mick Mousley said at an analysts’ dinner in London yesterday (15th October).   “Normalised profit was $11.4m (£7.1m) last year but market expectations are $12.2m (£7.6m) this year,” he... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Perseus Reorg, Weinberg and Suchomel Rise

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Hearst UK sees pre-tax profits fall by more than a quarter

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[ The Guardian | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont Selling U.S. Division

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH Completes Sales Group Buyout

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Adams Publishing Group Acquires The Athens News

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson targets literacy with five-year project

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[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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