Zinio LLC, the leading digital distributor of magazines and books, has partnered with GlobaCollect to offer subscribers a wider selection of electronic payment options, including international methods, for their online subscriptions and purchases. MarketWatch (July 9, 2008)
Mindworks Global Media employs 90+ to edit, design, layout pages and in some cases even report for media groups in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. The company, which manages outsourced work that journalists and copyeditors normally do, expects business to increase as cost-cutting in U.S. and European print media continues. BusinessWeek (July 8, [...]
B2B publisher IDG is no small fish. They have over 450 websites, 300 magazines, 13,000 employees and revenues over £3bn. Their strategy to move online appears to be paying dividends.Â
The Guardian
Conde Nast U.K., has announced the launch of a British version of WIRED. Publisher Jamie Jouning perceives the challenging economy as an ‘opportunity not a threat’.    ‘We’ve done a lot of research into this launch and genuinely feel there’s not a better time to launch. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in contemporary civilisation [...]
Electronic information publishing house Reed Elsevier is offering a £1billion-plus loan to potential suitors of their magazine unit that publishes Farmers Weekly and Flight International.  Reed hopes that the offer of the loan will ‘kick – start’ an auction for this division of Reed Business Information.
The Times of London
War on Want, the charity group, has accused Tesco, the United Kingdom’s largest grocery chain, of retailing clothes that were created under slave labor conditions.   It is alleged that Tesco is buying their clothes from a textile factory that, in India, pays it’s employees $17.29 (USD) for a 54 hour week. This equates to $.32 per hour.
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U.S. Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is urging TESCO’s Sir Terry Leahy to reconsider their policy of non-engagement with unions. Obama is concerned over the worker’s rights in TESCO’s FRESH & EASY outlets.
The Times of London
In the United Kingdom, as a result of the credit crunch, a growing number of consumers are shopping in discount retailers LIDL and ALDI. These two discounters are moving ahead of their retail rivals in the British grocery sector. ALDI grew by 20.7 per cent. While below ALDI’s performance, LIDL’s sales lift of 12.8 per [...]
Dennis Publishing has plans to launch a digital-only motoring title, iMotor, on July 17, the work result of its new product development team. The company launched digital men’s magazine Monkey in 2006 and digital gagdet magazine Gizmo in February of this year. Bruce Sandell, the team’s managing director said “The creative interactive advertising opportunities this [...]
Printer Quebecor World Inc. has received court approval to sell its European operations (comprised of 17 facilities, employing some 3,500 people in six countries) to Hombergh/De Pundert Group (HHBV), a Netherlands based investment group for 133 million euros ($206.2 million). Direct Newsline (June 19, 2008)