Rodale's Best Life Returns

Best Life Returns: Tanned, Rested Digitally Enhanced: Three years after folding (or putting on 'hiatus') its men’s lifestyle title, Rodale brings Best Life back to newsstands this week. Scheduled to stay at retail for the coming quarter, Best Life revives much of the content mix that made it a favorite among many affluent male readers for years: celebrity, style, high end goodies.

Deluxe Reports Growth in Q3

Deluxe Reports 7% Revenue Growth in Q3 2012: Revenue grows 7%: exceeds high end of outlookDiluted EPS of $0.81 grows 14%; adjusted EPS of $0.85 grows 9% - both exceed high end of outlookRaises full-year revenue and EPS outlookDeclares regular quarterly dividend.

Technology Review Relaunches

Technology Review Relaunches With Digital Focus: Technology Review has relaunched itself as MIT Technology Review, completing a digital-first transformation worthy of its cutting-edge namesake.

USPS Offers 6 Money-Saving Promotions

U.S. Postal Service to Offer Six Money-Saving Mailing Promotions in 2013: To help marketers prepare earlier for upcoming mail promotions, the U.S. Postal Service for the first time is publishing a yearly promotions calendar. The “2013 Mailing Services Promotions Calendar” will include six promotions designed to generate continued interest in the various uses and benefits of mobile barcodes in direct mail, as well as provide opportunities for marketers to be more successful with traditional integrated marketing campaigns.

Pearson and Bertelsmann in Talks

Pearson and Bertelsmann in Talks to Combine Random House and Penguin: Pearson, the British media conglomerate, said Thursday that it was in talks to combine its Penguin publishing house with Random House, owned by Bertelsmann of Germany. The combination would create a division with greater scale that could compete in a rapidly evolving eBook market.

Valassis Reports Q3 Results

Valassis’ Cost Cutting Spikes Its Net Earning as Revenues Fall: Valassis announced financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012. Revenues totaled $523.8 million, compared to $528.4 million in the prior year quarter. Its net earnings were $36.7 million, an.an increase of 33.5 percent from $27.5 million in 2011.

U.S. Businesses More Optimistic

Sage study shows U.S. businesses more optimistic than global counterparts: U.S. business owners are less optimistic about the economy than they were six months ago, but they are more optimistic about their own businesses' prospects over the next six months than their global counterparts, according to a survey by software company Sage North America.

Focus On Media’s ‘Great Realignment’

Focus On Media’s ‘Great Realignment’ at the ACT III Conference: Magazine publishers from a broad cross section of the industry spent two days presenting their best practices and innovative ideas for an era of transition during the third annual ACT III conference at the University of Mississippi.

Folio: People On The Move

People On The Move | 10.25.12:
Sports Illustrated has promoted Chris Stone to managing editor. Stone was previously assistant managing editor for the magazine.
Paul Fichtenbaum has been named editor at Time Inc. Sports Group. Fichtenbaum was serving as managing editor at SI.com.
Jennifer Levene Bruno is now publisher and chief revenue officer at Town & Country. Levene was previously publisher and chief revenue officer at VERANDA.
Bloomberg Buisnessweek has tapped Janet Paskin as its assistant managing editor and editor of Businessweek.com. Paskin joins the company from The Wall Street Journal, where she was a digital editor.

Marubeni, Oji & JK Paper in Joint Venture

http://www.marubeni-usa.com/

As already announced, we ("Oji") had incorporated an Indian subsidiary Oji India Packaging Pvt Ltd ("Oji India Packaging"), effective June 20, 2012, for the purpose of starting Corrugated Container Business in India. We are pleased to announce that the Business Plan for Oji India Packaging has recently been approved.

It has now been decided to conduct the business under a Joint Venture to be formed by Oji, JK Paper Ltd. ("JK"), who is a leading manufacturer of pulp and paper in India, and Marubeni Corporation in Japan. Three parties have executed a Joint Venture Agreement effective today.

UPM Reports Q3 Finances

SUMMARY - UPM INTERIM REPORT - SEPTEMBER 2012: UPM'S Cash flow continued to be strong in Q3 in challenging operating environment.
•Earnings per share excluding special items were EUR 0.15 (0.19), and reported EUR 0.06 (-0.21)
•EBITDA was EUR 305 million, 11.8% of sales (331 million, 12.7% of sales)
•EBITDA was affected by temporary production disruptions in Pulp
•Net debt decreased by EUR 246 million to EUR 3,139 million

International Paper Reports Q3 Earnings

International Paper 3Q 2012 results: operating profit down 6% from year ago to $539 million:
International Paper today reported third quarter 2012 net earnings from continuing operations attributable to common shareholders totaling $223 million , compared with net earnings of $118 million in the second quarter of 2012 and $468 million in the third quarter of 2011.

Domtar Reports Q3 Financial Results

Domtar posts net earnings of $66 million in Q3, 2012:
Domtar is reporting net earnings of $66 million for its third quarter of 2012 on sales of $1.4 billion.
These results can be compared to net earnings of $59 million for the second quarter of 2012 and net earnings of $117 for the third quarter of 2011.

IP and Grupo Orsa Form Joint Venture

International Paper and Grupo Orsa to Form Joint Venture: IP to Expand Global Corrugated Packaging Platform In BrazilMEMPHIS, Tenn., - International Paper and Brazilian corrugated packaging producer Jari Celulose, Embalagens e Papel S/A, a Grupo Orsa company, have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture which will support IP's strategy of growing its global packaging presence and better serving its global customer base.

West Fraser, Domtar Increase Pulp Price

West Fraser announced that its North American list price for northern bleached softwood kraft (NSBK) will increase $20/tonne, effective November 1 until further notice.

Domtar has informed North American customers that its northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) and southern bleached softwood kraft (SBSK) market pulp prices will increase $20/tonne, effective November 1 until further notice.

Forbes Launches New Campaign

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/185898/forbes-launches-new-tagline-brand-campaign.html

Forbes is launching a new brand advertising campaign this month -- its first in five years.

The print and online campaign will feature mini-profiles of entrepreneurs recently featured on Forbes covers who “exemplify what it takes to be truly successful today.” The campaign also introduces a new positioning tagline for the 95-year-old publication -- “Change The World” -- that will appear across Forbes’ print and digital properties.

Meredith Reports Ad Revenues Up 12%

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/185948/meredith-ad-revs-up-across-board-tv-rises-26.html

Meredith Corp. says advertising revenue climbed by double digits in its first fiscal quarter 2013, with big gains coming from its TV properties.
Total company advertising revenues climbed 12% to $207 million, with local media (its TV-related businesses) up 26% to $87.2 million. It had 7% advertising gains from its national media group (its print and magazine-based brands) to $132.6 million.
Overall magazine businesses grew 3% to $267 million. While magazines did see rising advertising revenue, it was the result of acquisitions. Without those new revenues, total advertising revenues declined 9%.

Power of Print in a Digital Age

http://www.pubexec.com/article/oprah-take-notice-linda-magazine-wants-you/1

Also full, this week, of lots of magazine folk in town for Mr. Magazine and Publishing Executive columnist Samir Husni’s annual ACT conference, this year with the theme: “Never Underestimate the Power of Print in a Digital Age.”
Today’s presentations began with a Rebecca Darwin, President and CEO of Garden & Gun magazine, who started out by quipping “I feel like I’m at an AA Meeting: ‘I’m Rebecca and I believe in print." Darwin was followed by a bevy of fascinating presentations.

7 Reasons to Rethink Print

http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/2012/10/print-content-strategy/

Most prognosticators say that by 2020 most printed media will be gone. I think anyone who makes those types of comments doesn’t understand history...

The evolution of the internet doesn’t kill off these channels… it makes us look at them differently because they are used differently by consumers.

We are releasing our third annual content marketing study next week. Among the findings, the usage of EVERY channel is flat or up. After years of seeing the usage of print magazines on the downside, we saw no change year-over-year. 

1. It grabs attention

2. Its focus on customer retention: 

3. There are no audience development costs:

4. What’s old is new again:

5. Customers still need to know what questions to ask

6. Print still excites people

7. Print lets people unplug

Newsweek’s CEO: Digital Transition

Newsweek’s Rob Gregory on Its Digital Transition:
Here, FOLIO: catches up with Rob Gregory, president of the Newsweek-Daily Beast Company, to get some insight on the decision to ditch print and what the brand will look like going forward.