by MediaSlut (@mediaslut) The best international and local magazine covers in MagLove this week: Taste Magazine Australia, Newsweek, Rolling Stone US, Elle Decoration South Africa, House and Leisure, and Getaway.
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Louise Marsland’s (@Louise_Marsland) pick of new product, packaging and design launches.
Publishers embrace retail; new plans for Meyer & Associates; a whisky win for Grant’s; and Foschini launches a ‘rewards booth’ for customers.
Ramsay shapes up to sell
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Ramsay Media is being whipped into shape in preparation for the sale of shares currently held by the Ramsay family (mostly through a family trust). Ramsay Media, publishers of popular magazine titles such as CAR, Getaway, Leisure Wheels and Popular Mechanics, was established 1933, and has seen four generations of Ramsay family members employed in the business.
The last members of that generation has however now left the business to pursue other career and business interests, and the family, minus direct involvement in the business apart from Alan Ramsay, its chairman who took back the day to day running of the group at the end of last year, feels it’s time to sell.
Ramsay took a firmer hand in running the business after Ramsay Media MD Stuart Lowe left at the end of 2012. His replacement, yet to be appointed, will probably be a private equity manager with media experience who will be tasked to put the business on surer financial footing and make it more appetising for possible investors.
Ramsay says the business had a very tough 2012, but had stabilised significantly in the last few months, with budgets exceeding targets. Even in the digital age publishers need to keep their eye on fundamentals such as distribution, marketing, sales targets and of course the content of their titles, notes Ramsay.
Magazine covers made with love
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Magazine covers we love (this week)!
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media blogger MediaSlutZA.
Cover S’Hot: Magazine covers we love (this week)
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media blogger MediaSlutZA.
New business focus, units build a braver RamsayMedia
RamsayMedia has been undergoing a strategic transformation over the last three years under the management team lead by MD Stuart Lowe.
S’HOT 2011 review: Basejumper
The Client: Land Rover
The Agency: Y&R
The Brief: Target the lifestyle and leisure segment of the Defender consumer by playing off its class leading off-road capabilities.
Creative Solution: Put on your gear, drive up the Matroosberg mountains, park your car and jump out the door. The defender is a vital piece of equipment for the more adventurous at heart. The ad was originated out of the Cape Town office and is running in press and outdoor across Europe as well as locally in SA 4X4 magazine, Getaway and Property Magazine.
Creative Team: Clinton Bridgeford, Liam Wielopolski, Graham Lang (Y&R London) (Executive Creative directors), Ntobeko Ximba (Art director), Deanne Longmore (Creative director), Bryan Traylor @locker14 (Photographer), Lee Aldridge, Stuart Frost (Y&R London), Dillon @still (Retouching)