22 Dec 1999
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Media Week would like to wish all its readers a happy Christmas and prosperous new millennium. Normal service on Media Week Online will resume on January 4, 2000. The next issue of Media Week will be published on Friday January 7, 2000.
21 Dec 1999
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Miller Freeman has sold five business to business titles to The Wilmington Group for £2.8 million. Wilmington is setting up a subsidiary business to house the titles called Wimtour. Former Miller Freeman managing director Denis Conlon has taken a 25% stake in Wimtour and becomes its managing director....
20 Dec 1999
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Guardian Newspapers is setting up a brand research unit as part of a restructure of its marketing department. Alison Hall, head of planning and research, has been promoted to deputy marketing director under marketing director Stephen Palmer and will co-ordinate the setting up of the unit. The unit...
20 Dec 1999
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Publishing duo launch bEurope
20 Dec 1999
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BSkyB seeks Open flotation
17 Dec 1999
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IPC is to launch a women’s site called BeMe.com in February and has hired Elini Kyriacou, editor of Emap’s Looks magazine, to take the post of channel editor. A preview page for BeMe.com went live this week stating that the site would be targetted at “mood swingers, city slickers, teched-up teens,...
17 Dec 1999
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Government wins tobacco ad ruling
16 Dec 1999
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Lis Howell, senior vice-president of Flextech Channels, has resigned from the company to form her own start-up venture. Flextech will be taking an equity stake in the new venture, which is expected to combine TV and internet content. Further details will be announced in the new year. Howell’s departure...