MDI/Hudson will be the servicing wholesaler, according to an email Paradies Buyer Debbie Moore sent today to newsstand industry contacts. One of the five store concepts will be based on Sports Radio 66 WFAN, New York’s all-sports station. Paradies Press Release (in .pdf format) (August 5, 2008)
Along with destroying homes and leaving many stranded, the flooding in Iowa has submerged roads and rails, slowing down or stopping altogether shipments of food, fuel, and other goods. The best case scenario is that transportation will get back to normal by next week, however it seems like it will be much longer until shipments [...]
In an effort to maintain a family-friendly, public environment, officials at Denver International Airport (DIA) use filtering software to restrict access to “provocative” sites. So, while you can pick up Vanity Fair and the SI Swimsuit Issue in the airport newsstand, you can’t access them online. Popular, non-magazine websites are also affected, including boingboing.net and [...]
Hudson Group has signed an agreement with Advent International, making the global private equity firm, based in Boston, the majority owner of the company’s newsstands, bookstores, cafes and airport concessions business whose revenues are expected to top $630M by year’s end. Advent indicates that the existing management team will continue to manage the [...]
His other 2008 media predictions include: “daily” newsspapers doing away with slim, Saturday issues, additional music acts following Raidiohead’s lead and offering “pay-what-you-want” album downloads, and Wall Street Journal staffers conceding that News Corp. ownership hasn’t destroyed their paper. His last prediction devolves into a fantasy in which he pines for the U.S. Congress to pass [...]