Port Hawkesbury; Employees on Site Monday to Prepare Restart

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/09/07/ns-newpage-ramping-up-to-open.html In a statement released Friday afternoon, Pacific West Commercial Corporation said 140 former employees of the former NewPage paper mill in Port Hawkesbury will be on the site Monday, preparing the mill for an eventual restart.

There is still one more hurdle to clear before the deal is complete. Pacific West is awaiting a ruling from Revenue Canada later this month on an advanced tax ruling sought by Pacific West and Nova Scotia Power.
In Friday's statement, Pacific West said after the mill purchase is finalized later this month, all 330 employees will be recalled to work.

SP Fiber Technologies Buys SP Newsprint

SP Fiber Technologies LLC (SPFT) has announced today that it has successfully acquired substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of SP Newsprint and its subsidiaries in a court-approved sale.

SPFT will relocate its corporate headquarters to its facility in Dublin, Georgia. The company will operate its mills in Newberg, Oregon and Dublin, Georgia as well as its wholly-owned subsidiaries SP Recycling Southeast LLC (SPRS) and SP Recycling Northwest LLC (SPRN). Based in Atlanta, Georgia, SPRS and SPRN are leading recyclers of recovered paper and other recovered commodities in the Southeast and the Pacific Northwest. The two recycling companies collect, process, and ship high quality material from 21 processing facilities in 9 states.

IP Schedules Downtime Maintenance

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/International-Paper-Schedules-October-Maintenance-Downtime-Four-US-Mills-Industrial-1699078.htm

International Paper Company, a world leader in pulp, paper and paperboard production, has scheduled the fourth quarter of this year to perform major maintenance activities at four of its U.S. mills. IP plans call for preventative maintenance, major repairs and overhaul, and equipment replacements at mills located in Eastover, South Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; Pine Hill, Alabama; and Cantonment, Florida. The combined expenditure of maintenance-related activities at the four mills is estimated to cost more than $20 million, and includes repairs to paper machines, pulp and stock processing equipment and boilers.

SF Chronicle Launches New Title

SF Chronicle Launches 49ers Digital Magazine: The San Francisco Chronicle launched its 49ers Insider digital magazine last week in advance of the team’s season-opener against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

Log Exports to China Down 25% in H1

http://earthfix.opb.org/land/article/chinas-economic-slowdown-means-work-in-northwest-f/

China’s economic slowdown is cutting down the number of logs exported from Pacific Northwest forests.
A new report from the U.S. Forest Service says 25 percent fewer logs were exported from Oregon, Washington, Northern California and Alaska during the first half of this year. That’s compared with the same period of 2011.

Under Armour's New Ad Focus; Women

http://www.adweek.com/print/143522

Under Armour, a sporting goods company that has traditionally been more successful selling to men, has launched a multifaceted fall campaign in what the brand is calling its biggest female-focused initiative yet. It’s running static and rich-media ads on Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, MTV.com and women’s lifestyle site Fitsugar.com. The video portion of the ad buys will utilize 15- and 30-second spots that depict females in sometimes grueling training activities.

Thrillist Names General Manager

With New GM Hire, Thrillist Looks to Expand Beyond Newsletters:
Thrillist, a men's lifestyle publisher, has hired former Maxim digital editorial director Gene Newman as general manager. The newly created position will execute on a strategy to expand the Thrillist brand as a destination site beyond its email subscription roots.

'The Economist'; First Global 'Consolidated Media Report'

'The Economist' releases first global 'Consolidated Media Report': The Economist has released its first global “Consolidated Media Report,” which shows audited data for The Economist's global print and digital products across seven regions.
The report, produced with the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) North America and ABC U.K., provides media buyers with the brand's print circulation and metrics from multiple digital channels.

"Esquire" Launches Spin-Off

http://www.adweek.com/print/143475

At first glance, there seems to be no lack of work-related publications for the modern man. But take away the lists of enormous companies (or their enormously wealthy CEOs) and entrepreneurial fairy tales, and there’s not a lot of pragmatic content. So says Esquire, which is hoping to fill the gap with a new supplement, Esquire, Working.

"Glamour's" New Campaign Targets Millennials

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/glamour-magazine-campaign-tries-to-reach-millennials.html?pagewanted=print

The new campaign, now under way, celebrates the Glamour readership not as Glamour Girls but as “Generation Glamour,” referring to the so-called millennials, or Generation Y, roughly defined as Americans born in or after 1980. The campaign, with a budget estimated at $250,000, comes six months after Glamour’s editor in chief, Cynthia Leive, known as Cindi, introduced a makeover of its editorial look and content, which was meant to increase the appeal of the magazine to its primary audience of women ages 18 to 34.

"Texas Monthly" Redesigned

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Three years after Evan Smith stepped down as editor-in-chief, Texas Monthly is introducing a redesign that calls attention to its resilience since then -- a product of some careful stepping and carefully stewarded advantages.
The redesign comes as the magazine seems to be performing better than many others. Texas Monthly's newsstand sales edged up 1.5% in the first half, a period when industrywide newsstand sales fell 9.6%, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Ad pages through the September issue increased 4.9% over the period a year earlier, while monthlies on the whole saw ad pages decline 4.9%, according to the Media Industry Newsletter.

Q2 Ad Spending Flat

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/182653/kantar-q2-us-ad-spend-flat-at-34-bil.html

U.S. ad spending growth nearly stalled in the second quarter of 2012, climbing less than 1% to $34 billion, according to a report issued today by Kantar Media. For the first half, spending was up 1.9% to $67.1 billion.

RR Donnelley Buys Express Postal Options

RR Donnelley Acquires Express Postal Options to Expand Logistics Offering: R. R. Donnelley & Sons announced that it has further expanded its fast growing logistics services offering with the acquisition of Express Postal Options International (XPO), a privately held company based in Torrance, CA. XPO provides international outbound mailing services to pharmaceutical, e-commerce, financial services, information technology, catalog, direct mail and other businesses.

DMA Names Winners in Innovation

DMA names marketing technology innovators: The Direct Marketing Association has named seven companies as winners of its 2012 Innovation Awards for excellence in direct and digital marketing technology.

Out-of-Home Advertising Up 4.3%

Out-of-home advertising up 4.3% in Q2: Out-of-home advertising revenue rose 4.3% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the same period a year earlier, accounting for more than $2 billion in expenditures, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.

Consolidation Could Save USPS $1 Billion

USPS Could Save $1 Billion by Combining Delivery Operations, Study Says: The U.S. Postal Service could save about $1 billion annually by closing nearly 10,000 postal facilities that house both retail and carrier functions, according to a study released today. A plan presented by the USPS’s Office of Inspector General would mean fewer clerks and postmasters, but increased labor costs for letter carriers.

Congress is Back; Postal Reform on the List

Congress Faces Continuing Resolution, Sequestration and Postal Reform: Lawmakers returned to Washington, DC, this week with a packed agenda. Topping the list of priorities is hammering out final details of a stopgap spending measure to keep the government running. Amid the election-year politicking, the list of unfinished business also includes legislation to restructure the financially ailing U.S. Postal Service.
The Senate approved a postal reform bill in the spring. However, the House version, which takes a very different tack to returning the USPS to solvency, has languished.