MailOnline revenue up 61% in DMGT first half results
Parent company Daily Mail Group Trust (DMGT) said the decline was partly mitigated by the MailOnline‘s 61% revenue growth to £20m (2012: £12m), although this is still dwarfed by printed revenues. Combined revenue for the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline declined by 4% to £306m, which was attributed to an 8% decline in overall print advertising revenue and the 6% decline in circulation revenue. London’s free paper Metro was hit by a post Olympics revenue decline of 8% to £40m (2012: £44m). Overall DMG Media, the division comprising DMGT’s newspapers, Zoopla, Wowcher and digital recruitment firm Evenbase, posted a 6% increase in operating profit on revenues of £406m (2012: £435m). DMGT chief executive Martin Morgan said good overall underlying performance reflected the strength of the group’s B2B companies and the resilience of its national consumer titles. He added: “As expected, reported operating profit increased despite a decline in reported revenue resulting from recent disposals. “Our UK consumer business, DMG media, continued to experience challenging conditions and underlying revenues were slightly down, although the increase in digital revenues more than offset the decline in print advertising revenues.” “We have continued to actively manage our portfolio of businesses and have made several acquisitions and disposals during the period and into the second half, to improve the overall quality and growth prospects of the group.” Morgan said that he expected comparatives in the second half of the year to be adversely impacted by the timing of biennial events and the Olympics, which were one-off benefits in the second half of the last financial year. “Overall, the outlook for the full year remains unchanged,” he added....
read morePaperlinx launches ‘win-win’ revenue generator for printers
“Our customers are buying paper to print on and therefore add value to, their customers may well want to buy packaging, copier paper or whatever and we can facilitate that and fulfil those orders,” said Paperlinx UK managing director Phil Carr. “Printers have deep relationships with their customers so we’re just trying to make that relationship stickier. What we’re doing is providing an income stream that printers would not have had access to before, importantly, without tying up their cash. It really is that simple,” he added. The service is known internally as “printers’ webstores” and the first webstore is expected to go live in the coming days, although Carr declined to reveal the name of the first user. PaperlinX is currently also in advanced discussions with another six customers. In essence the service is a white label online storefront that printers can add to their websites. The storefronts will offer around 500 Paperlinx products, ranging from blank packaging, office paper, consumables and other media. “Everyone we’ve spoken to sees the value in it, because we’re all experiencing a decline in volumes. It’s a low cost, no risk opportunity and people get that,” said Carr. “It stems from us trying to develop initiatives to enable our customers to bolt on new revenue streams. Of course if it’s good for their business, it’s also good for us because it continues our evolution from simply being a supplier of paper,” added Carr. The webstores will be branded in line with the printer’s own branding. They will be full e-commerce enabled sites where customers can pay by credit card, although invoice options will also be available. Once placed, the orders will be delivered direct to the printer’s customers via Paperlinx’s 250-strong logistics fleet, based across DeliveryCo’s 24 distribution hubs. The products will be supplied at a fixed price, to ensure a common pricing structure, which will be set by Paperlinx across all printers’ webstores. Printers will then generate a pre-determined “healthy” commission based on order value, which will then be either paid directly to the printer or credited to their Paperlinx account. “It’s a simple value added service for the printer to their customers, it plays into our strengths of logistics and breadth of products. We as merchants should be helping our customers to offer solutions to their customers and this does exactly that, it really is a win-win for all concerned,” said Carr. The pilot “printers’ webstores” service will initially be offered to 50 pre-selected Paperlinx customers, but Carr said over time it would be opened up. In terms of initial set up costs to the printer, Carr described them as “minimal”, but he added that they would depend on a variety of factors, such as volumes. While the service will initial focus on 500 products, Carr said that more products will be added over time – once the demand has been identified. The scheme is being launched in the UK, but Paperlinx expects to roll it out across Europe by the end of the year. Carr hinted that Paperlinx might introduce other similar initiatives in the near future, however he declined to reveal further details....
read morePaperlinx launches ‘win-win’ revenue generator for printers
“Our customers are buying paper to print on and therefore add value to, their customers may well want to buy packaging, copier paper or whatever and we can facilitate that and fulfil those orders,” said Paperlinx UK managing director Phil Carr. “Printers have deep relationships with their customers so we’re just trying to make that relationship stickier. What we’re doing is providing an income stream that printers would not have had access to before, importantly, without tying up their cash. It really is that simple,” he added. The service is known internally as “printers’ webstores” and the first webstore is expected to go live in the coming days, although Carr declined to reveal the name of the first user. PaperlinX is currently also in advanced discussions with another six customers. In essence the service is a white label online storefront that printers can add to their websites. The storefronts will offer around 500 Paperlinx products, ranging from blank packaging, office paper, consumables and other media. “Everyone we’ve spoken to sees the value in it, because we’re all experiencing a decline in volumes. It’s a low cost, no risk opportunity and people get that,” said Carr. “It stems from us trying to develop initiatives to enable our customers to bolt on new revenue streams. Of course if it’s good for their business, it’s also good for us because it continues our evolution from simply being a supplier of paper,” added Carr. The webstores will be branded in line with the printer’s own branding. They will be full e-commerce enabled sites where customers can pay by credit card, although invoice options will also be available. Once placed, the orders will be delivered direct to the printer’s customers via Paperlinx’s 250-strong logistics fleet, based across DeliveryCo’s 24 distribution hubs. The products will be supplied at a fixed price, to ensure a common pricing structure, which will be set by Paperlinx across all printers’ webstores. Printers will then generate a pre-determined “healthy” commission based on order value, which will then be either paid directly to the printer or credited to their Paperlinx account. “It’s a simple value added service for the printer to their customers, it plays into our strengths of logistics and breadth of products. We as merchants should be helping our customers to offer solutions to their customers and this does exactly that, it really is a win-win for all concerned,” said Carr. The pilot “printers’ webstores” service will initially be offered to 50 pre-selected Paperlinx customers, but Carr said over time it would be opened up. In terms of initial set up costs to the printer, Carr described them as “minimal”, but he added that they would depend on a variety of factors, such as volumes. While the service will initial focus on 500 products, Carr said that more products will be added over time – once the demand has been identified. The scheme is being launched in the UK, but Paperlinx expects to roll it out across Europe by the end of the year. Carr hinted that Paperlinx might introduce other similar initiatives in the near future, however he declined to reveal further details....
read morePrintWeek to produce official Fespa show daily
The PrintWeek team will be decamping to produce the Daily live from the showfloor at London’s Excel in a specially built newsroom on the PrintWeek stand, M90S in the digital hall. The FespaDaily will be published in English and German. The 32-page publication will cover all of the show news as it happens: the deals, the launches and everything in between. In addition, it will offer insightful and thought provoking analysis of some of the key trends at the landmark event. The six-strong editorial team’s key objective will be to ensure that no delegate’s visit to the show is complete without securing their copy of FespaDaily, which will be available at all of the entrances, registration points and other high-traffic areas. “Fespa is the key international event in the wide-format sector in 2013 and it will offer an unparalleled opportunity to see where the industry is heading now and in the future. So actually reporting the latest news live from the show floor is critical – and it’s what we do best,” said PrintWeek editor Darryl Danielli. For the first time, PrintWeek will be producing the FespaDaily in collaboration with Digital Textile magazine, part of the World Textile Information Network. The Digital Textile team will be producing textile news live from the show, as well as a number a textile focussed features for the Daily. As well as producing the FespaDaily, the PrintWeek team will also be producing a daily email bulletin that will be sent to more than 40,000 key players in the wide-format sector, which, along with the Daily, will ensure that all the latest news and views of the world’s largest wide-format show will be broadcast to the global industry’s leading players. You can register for the Fespa bulletin here. If you have any news during or in the run-up to and during the show, please email fespa.daily@markallengroup.com or complete the attached press release template available here. For advertising enquiries, email angela.koduah@markallengroup.com....
read morePrintWeek to produce official Fespa show daily
The PrintWeek team will be decamping to produce the Daily live from the showfloor at London’s Excel in a specially built newsroom on the PrintWeek stand, M90S in the digital hall. The FespaDaily will be published in English and German. The 32-page publication will cover all of the show news as it happens: the deals, the launches and everything in between. In addition, it will offer insightful and thought provoking analysis of some of the key trends at the landmark event. The six-strong editorial team’s key objective will be to ensure that no delegate’s visit to the show is complete without securing their copy of FespaDaily, which will be available at all of the entrances, registration points and other high-traffic areas. “Fespa is the key international event in the wide-format sector in 2013 and it will offer an unparalleled opportunity to see where the industry is heading now and in the future. So actually reporting the latest news live from the show floor is critical – and it’s what we do best,” said PrintWeek editor Darryl Danielli. For the first time, PrintWeek will be producing the FespaDaily in collaboration with Digital Textile magazine, part of the World Textile Information Network. The Digital Textile team will be producing textile news live from the show, as well as a number a textile focussed features for the Daily. As well as producing the FespaDaily, the PrintWeek team will also be producing a daily email bulletin that will be sent to more than 40,000 key players in the wide-format sector, which, along with the Daily, will ensure that all the latest news and views of the world’s largest wide-format show will be broadcast to the global industry’s leading players. You can register for the Fespa bulletin here. If you have any news during or in the run-up to and during the show, please email fespa.daily@markallengroup.com or complete the attached press release template available here. For advertising enquiries, email angela.koduah@markallengroup.com....
read moreDouble celebration for DXG Media
The Manchester-based company has just been named Green Business of the Year in the Pride of Tameside Awards, with managing director Duarte Goncalves carrying off the trophy for Business Person of the Year. DXG has recently completed a major upgrade of its facilities, which included the installation of a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster CD102 LX2 and the latest version of Heidelberg’s ImageControl system, which has also been linked to its existing five-colour Speedmaster CD74 LX. The CD102 is a 2011 model and came from an Italian printer with just 18m impressions on the clock. It was supplied by Albion Machinery. “I can’t speak of them highly enough, they’ve been absolutely excellent,” Goncalves said. DXG gained a 20% Regional Growth Fund grant for the purchase through Lombard, a process Goncalves described as straightforward and “really user-friendly”. “I’d encourage other companies to look at it,” he said. The firm employs 30 staff and runs 24/5. It specialises in rapid turnaround, high-quality litho and digital printing and serves a range of blue-chip clients, predominantly in the North West. “Quality and service are important to us. There is no point in trying to compete on price with the really cheap people out there,” Goncalves stated. “We always use triple-coated stock, and clients love the results we get with hybrid screening. Having a 24-hour finishing department means we can produce a lot of work, incredibly quickly.” DXG has also revamped its MIS and recently went live with Tharstern’s Primo system. “Primo gives me instant information, real-time figures that will help us to make better decisions,” he added. Goncalves also said he had noticed a change of sentiment about media spend among some of the firm’s key clients. “Big companies are starting to spend on print again. It’s all very well doing emails and having a nice website, but print is effective even as a standalone communication. It’s still got life in it.”...
read moreDouble celebration for DXG Media
The Manchester-based company has just been named Green Business of the Year in the Pride of Tameside Awards, with managing director Duarte Goncalves carrying off the trophy for Business Person of the Year. DXG has recently completed a major upgrade of its facilities, which included the installation of a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster CD102 LX2 and the latest version of Heidelberg’s ImageControl system, which has also been linked to its existing five-colour Speedmaster CD74 LX. The CD102 is a 2011 model and came from an Italian printer with just 18m impressions on the clock. It was supplied by Albion Machinery. “I can’t speak of them highly enough, they’ve been absolutely excellent,” Goncalves said. DXG gained a 20% Regional Growth Fund grant for the purchase through Lombard, a process Goncalves described as straightforward and “really user-friendly”. “I’d encourage other companies to look at it,” he said. The firm employs 30 staff and runs 24/5. It specialises in rapid turnaround, high-quality litho and digital printing and serves a range of blue-chip clients, predominantly in the North West. “Quality and service are important to us. There is no point in trying to compete on price with the really cheap people out there,” Goncalves stated. “We always use triple-coated stock, and clients love the results we get with hybrid screening. Having a 24-hour finishing department means we can produce a lot of work, incredibly quickly.” DXG has also revamped its MIS and recently went live with Tharstern’s Primo system. “Primo gives me instant information, real-time figures that will help us to make better decisions,” he added. Goncalves also said he had noticed a change of sentiment about media spend among some of the firm’s key clients. “Big companies are starting to spend on print again. It’s all very well doing emails and having a nice website, but print is effective even as a standalone communication. It’s still got life in it.”...
read moreShuttleworth extends webinar programme
New for the June and July programme will be sessions on ‘Shortcuts to make it quicker and easier to navigate in SBS,’ ‘An Introduction to the new 5.3 Milestone module,’ and ‘An introduction to the Shuttleworth MIS’. Each webinar will be held at different times on 20 June, then repeated again on 12 July. The new sessions will join topics already established in April and May webinars ‘How to keep your database tidy’ and ‘How to set up events and filters to manage customer service and sales,’ which will both be repeated on 18 June and 2 July. Dawn Safford, implementation and marketing at Shuttleworth, said the developer expected the enhanced programme to boost webinar attendance, from around 350 attendances throughout the year in 2012, to around 450 this year. She said: “Webinars are a great way to keep informed; they are environmentally friendly, save time and users get to appreciate new developments that otherwise they would not see. “The webinar attendance is increasing year on year and we have experienced a record number of customers registering to attend the new 2013 webinar programme.” The webinars are free for Shuttleworth customers, with each taking around 30 minutes to complete. Meanwhile Shuttleworth will also exhibit at Fespa next month with the latest developments in its MIS software, which it claims is the “ultimate tool” for customer facing wide-format printers. Other developments on show will be its new supply chain management product, a new iPhone and iPad CRM app and its new Business Intelligence suite....
read moreShuttleworth extends webinar programme
New for the June and July programme will be sessions on ‘Shortcuts to make it quicker and easier to navigate in SBS,’ ‘An Introduction to the new 5.3 Milestone module,’ and ‘An introduction to the Shuttleworth MIS’. Each webinar will be held at different times on 20 June, then repeated again on 12 July. The new sessions will join topics already established in April and May webinars ‘How to keep your database tidy’ and ‘How to set up events and filters to manage customer service and sales,’ which will both be repeated on 18 June and 2 July. Dawn Safford, implementation and marketing at Shuttleworth, said the developer expected the enhanced programme to boost webinar attendance, from around 350 attendances throughout the year in 2012, to around 450 this year. She said: “Webinars are a great way to keep informed; they are environmentally friendly, save time and users get to appreciate new developments that otherwise they would not see. “The webinar attendance is increasing year on year and we have experienced a record number of customers registering to attend the new 2013 webinar programme.” The webinars are free for Shuttleworth customers, with each taking around 30 minutes to complete. Meanwhile Shuttleworth will also exhibit at Fespa next month with the latest developments in its MIS software, which it claims is the “ultimate tool” for customer facing wide-format printers. Other developments on show will be its new supply chain management product, a new iPhone and iPad CRM app and its new Business Intelligence suite....
read moreOriam Green secures distributor deal for Bee-Lite
Claimed by the distributor to be stronger than other honeycomb board substrates, Bee-Lite is light-weight and transportable yet robust and is ideal for exhibition graphics and stands. It is designed to be simple to slot together, disassemble and dispose of and is claimed to be 100% recyclable. The product complements Oriam Green’s other, more robust signage and stand board Reboard, by offering a cheaper alternative, said Oriam director Craig MacWilliam. “This will be ideal for the printer with a digital flatbed printer and cutting machine that wants to go green but in a very cost-effective way,” he said. “Previous honeycomb boards might not have been strong enough and don’t react well to going under lamps in the digital process, but this does.”...
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