Pearson profits hit by advertising slump
30 Jul 2001 | by Staff,
LONDON - Financial Times publisher Pearson has announced better-than-expected half-year results, but said that the depressed advertising market would hit its full-year profits.
LONDON - Dotmusic.com, United Business Media's music website, has laid off half its staff, including the editor Andy Strickland.
LONDON - Financial Times publisher Pearson has announced better-than-expected half-year results, but said that the depressed advertising market would hit its full-year profits.
LONDON - Sir Anthony O'Reilly, whose media group owns The Independent newspaper in the UK, is planning a takeover of Fairfax Holdings, the largest newspaper group in Australia.
LONDON - The Independent Television Commission has imposed a financial penalty of 100,000 on London Weekend Television for breaches of the ITC code of programme sponsorship in the series Club@vision .
LONDON - Cordiant Communications, the UK marketing services group, has acquired 100% of live events company Presentation Communications International.
LONDON - The BBC plans to create a new public square in London's West End as part of a 400m plan to redevelop its Broadcasting House headquarters.
LONDON Chrysalis, the media company whose internet interests have taken their toll on profits, is thinking of axing its entire web business.
LONDON - HSBC, Burberry, Orange, Tesco and Vodafone are close to joining the list of the top 100 global brands, according to a survey from marketing consultancy Interbrand.
LONDON Cordiant Communications has bought the whole of Presentation Communications International in a bid to set up a new face-to-face marketing company.
LONDON Cordiant Communications has bought the whole of Presentation Communications International in a bid to set up a new face-to-face marketing company.