NEWS: Stockting quits Conde Nast’

Charlotte Stockting, the first corporate sales and marketing director at

Conde Nast, has quit suddenly.

Stockting, who was previously the publisher at Elle, joined the company

two years ago in a newly created role. Her original brief was to

attract new business and develop group ad deals. The appointment was

seen at the time as a break with Conde Nast’s tradition of brand

supremacy.

In reality, Stockting’s role appears to have centred primarily on new

business.

‘Two years in, I did not feel that the role had developed like those

which have developed at other magazine houses, notably the National

Magazine Company. I felt I would be stifled by staying at Conde Nast,

and needed to look outside,’ Stockting said.

Nicholas Coleridge, managing director at Conde Nast, said: ‘She did a

terrific job, but she felt like a change. She’d been handling new

business for us, and a couple of other projects. We both felt it was

time for her to move on.

‘We will be looking for a replacement in the new year. I can’t say yet

whether it will be a direct replacement, but we want someone to fulfil

that sort of role,’ Coleridge explained.

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