“Hachette will also be shutting down Pointclickhome.com, the umbrella site it launched in 2007 for all three of its shelter magazines at the time, Home, Metropolitan Home and Elle Décor, a spokeswoman said.” Crain’s New York Business Nov. 9, 2009
Todd Anderman, Senior Vice President of Hachette Filipacchi Media’s interactive division, announced last week that the company would re-launch all of its websites by the end of the year. He said the sites would emphasize new applications to encourage user involvement like a recipe finder, car buying tools, and links to other sites. Woman’s Day [...]
Jack Kliger, former chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America, is stepping down as president and chief executive officer of Hachette Filipacchi and will become chairman of HFM U.S.; a newly created position. Kliger said that he was hired as chairman of HFM U.S. in order to “develop strategic relationships for the company.” Folio (June [...]
Like Oprah and Rachael Ray, Ty Pennington is turning from TV personality to magazine brand. Ty Pennington at Home, which launched one test-issue in May of last year, will be published quarterly by Hachette with a circulation of 500,000. The “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” star has a huge personal appeal to Americans and his magazine is [...]
Alpha is losing Joe Mangione, chief marketing manager on March 14th. He had been hired to oversee integrated marketing for Maxim and Blender, in print and online. Mangione held this position with the company for only a short while. He came out of retirement in October to fill the position, but has decided that the [...]
Looking at the first half ABC numbers, Baird Davis notes the newsstand to subscription source ratio dropped to a new low of 17.2 percent. But he saw some good news in the overall circulation picture. Sales losses resulting from a 13 percent decline in the number of audited titles have been largely made up for [...]