EUROGRAPH has announced European shipments of coated mechanical paper in August fell -11%, demand declined -11.1% and exports were down -10.7%.
Coated woodfree shipments for the month decreased -8.9%, demand fell -7.4% and exports were down -16.5%.
Supercalendered paper shipments declined -6.8%, demand decreased -5.3% and exports fell -12%.
Uncoated woodfree shipments were down -8%, demand fell -5.7% and exports declined -14.3% for the month.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Evergreen Follows Suit
Evergreen Packaging has announced an increase of $3.00 cwt, effective with orders shipping on or after October 23, on the following grades: Skyland Offset and Skyland Reply Card.
Port Hawkesbury Reaches Timber Harvesting Agreement
The
five Mi'kmaq bands in Cape Breton have signed their first forestry agreement
with Port Hawkesbury Paper.
The
agreement with the new owner of the Point Tupper paper mill gives Crown land
harvest quotas to harvesters from the First Nation communities.
Lisa
Young, executive director with the Unima'ki Institute for Natural Resources in
Eskasoni, said she couldn't put an exact number on how much the quotas could
mean for the individual harvesters.
Postal Rate Hikes Disappoint Mailing Industry
Magazines,
newspapers and marketing businesses that depend on the U.S. mail suffered a
setback in the fight to ward off an exigent rate hike on top of the annual rate
that's tied to the consumer price index.
Citing
its "precarious financial condition," the Postal Board of Governors
proposed a rate increase of 5.9 percent on top of the annual CPI increase of
1.6 percent. If approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the rates would
go into effect Jan. 26, 2014.
Folio: People on the Move
James Taylor promoted to senior editor of Private Equity and will manage online and print for Private Equity International and PE Manager. His appointment replaces Amanda Janis who was promoted to director-specialist investment networks and will help launch a new business line for the company. And more...
Hearst's New Magazine Add Ins
The two-and-a-half milliliter tubes will come poly-bagged to 100,000 copies of the November issues of Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Seventeen, for a total of 400,000 subscribers, according to Hearst Magazines. Affixing sample-size bottles of perfume to magazines is believed to be a first. "The technology just didn't exist," said Michael Clinton, president-marketing and publishing director of Hearst Magazines.
For magazine publishers, it could serve as yet another way to attract dollars from beauty advertisers, which has been among a handful of persistent bright spots for the industry.
More Cuts at Condé Nast Traveler
NY Post: A second round of cuts hit
Condé Nast Traveler on Wednesday as new editor-in-chief Pilar Guzman continues
to reshape her staff. Guzman is said to have let go executive editor Kevin
Doyle and senior editors Alison Humes and Dinda Elliott. Separately, WWD
reports that Brides magazine seems to be benefiting from editor Keija Minor
(its EIC for a year) having used executive coaching services offered
at Condé–as well as from guidance from Anna Wintour, in her role as
corporate artistic director.
WWD (Brides)
One Publisher’s “Radical” Proposal
During PBAA Canada, veteran consumer
marketer-turned publishing entrepreneur Michael J. Fox presented a “radical”
proposal for changing the structure and dynamics of the magazine category’s
current economics and dynamics. Goal: Funneling resources and costs away from
returns copies and into more flexible, effective marketing practices.
Q&A with Esquire’s Editor
David Granger talks about the
opportunities and challenges in editing across platforms, and print’s value.
“Print encourages the production of qualitative experiences, and I think that’s
going to be the value that moves print forward and makes it become even more of
a thing to be cherished,” he notes. Also stresses the strength and power of
print magazine design and packaging, and says that print is necessary for brand
expansion. “We still and always will, I think, create things for print Esquire
that [aren't] created for purely digital media.”
7 Ways Innovative Magazines Are Adding Value
During this week’s FIPP Congress,
Innovations Media Consulting exec John Wilpers offered case studies of how
magazines are maximizing advertising and new product opportunities in print and
digital platforms–examples that include personalization, using tablet
technology to enhance ads’ power, shoppable content, e-singles, social media,
multimedia and spin-off apps.
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