[caption id="attachment_144315" align="alignright" width="150"] Steve Grune[/caption] Meredith Corp.'s VP of brand licensing, Steve Grune, is stepping down after 18 months in that role and eight years with the company overall. He'll be succeeded by Toye Cody and Sondra Newkirk, who have each been promoted to VP from executive directors in the brand licensing division. Cody and Newkirk will split duties, with Cody continuing to lead the Walmart account, serving Walmart.com and 4,000 stores with Better Homes & Gardens-branded products. Overseeing all other brand licensing business, Newkirk will manage roughly 35 partnerships across 11 Meredith brands. Grune was first at Meredith from 1999 to 2000, when he was publisher of Midwest Living, before spending nine years at Hearst Magazines as VP and publisher of Country Living. After three years at Bonnier Corp., he rejoined Meredith in 2013 as founding publisher of Allrecipes magazine before taking over Meredith's Parents Network as VP and group publisher in 2016. He moved atop the brand licensing division in 2018. A Meredith rep says Grune is stepping down to "pursue new interests" and spend more time with his family. Cody first joined the company in 2004, having held various positions within Meredith Books, while Newkirk has been with Meredith since 2006 in different roles within the brand licensing division. Both have served as executive director since 2018. “Toye and Sondra are seasoned professionals with deep brand... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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Little, Brown has signed two books by bestselling historical novelist Suzannah Dunn, who was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books sales and trade marketing director Jane Harris is to join Quercus as executive... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones has begun promoting the Amazon Kindle devices that will be on sale in stores from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some bookshops are invoking the name of Super Thursday for promotions and marketing. Chapter... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto shareholders are to vote on 7th November on the potential removal of chairman and c.e.o.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s been 10 years since David Borgenicht founded Quirk Books, and three years since the Philadelphia publisher released its massive hit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a title that has not only sold more than 1.5 million copies (combined print and digital) but launched the mashup book... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon and Sony are continuing to offer ebooks at 20p, with further titles added to their... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has promoted Sam Hancock to digital product development manager. In his new role... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is to delay its head office move from Brentford to its flagship London Piccadilly... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ed Wood, editor of We Love This Book, is to join Sphere as senior editor for men's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Book Group chairman and c.e.o. David Young will return to the UK to head up Orion next... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sony and Amazon’s 20p ebook offer shows no sign of coming to an end, with a Faber novel... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has created a new business role to improve its pricing strategies. Eloy Sasot,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Magazine publishers have been criticized for being slow to meet advertisers’ demands for performance metrics, but Condé Nast is taking a step in that direction with an investment in Flite, a cloud-based platform that lets brands measure and adjust their ads in real time. Condé Nast has been a... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Wiley & Sons is changing the way it licenses journals published under its Open Access... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Department of Justice has filed a motion with Judge Denise Cote asking her to approve the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Licensing has long played an important role in the cookbook category. While most of the action has been in brands and cooking shows that have been extended into licensed cookbooks, more recently quite a few characters and entertainment properties have entered the category, and those deals have... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The embattled St. Mark's Bookshop has a new defender. Lucky Ant, a year-old, hyper-local crowd-funding platform, is helping the 35-year-old East Village literary landmark raise the money it needs to move to a cheaper location. The online campaign, at Luckyant.com, launched Wednesday at midnight,... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Four local online newsrooms have united to broaden New Orleans’ news options. The mission of the newly formed New Orleans Digital News Alliance is to connect independent digital news organizations for the benefit of our readers and to stren ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell is to operate a bookshop at the University of Northumbria, following the departure of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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