Interview with Newsprint Producers Association President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? < ...>

Interview with RAO BUMPROM President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? 2. Какие проблемы остались нерешенными? »? 1-2. Начну с ...>

Interview with MASPOL President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? 2. Какие проблемы остались нерешенными? »? 1. В области ...>

Interview with GIPP President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? 2. Какие проблемы остались нерешенными? »? 1. Очевидно, ...>

What's your opinion: Who should have been our cover person of the year?

The editors of newspaper techniques selected News Corp's Rupert Murdoch as the magazine's cover person of the year for 2007. Our opinion is that his US$5.6 billion purchase of the Wall ...>

Business Overview 2007 in South America by Rafael Mathus Ruiz, editor Economía & Negocios at Diario La Nación

available only in Spanish for the moment de Rafael Mathus Ruiz, editor Economía & Negocios del Diario La Nación La profundización de los procesos de integración entre las distintas ...>

India summary II: Q&A with Anand Mathew

Anand Mathew is general manager of sales for Malayala Manorama in India. newspaper techniques: What do you remember as the major events in 2007 concerning the media industry? Anand Mathew: Nothing major comes to mind immediately. More internat ...>

Regional summary: Robert Whitehead address at PANPA 2007

Page 1 of 5 This was originally published in PANPA Magazine, the monthly magazine for Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association (PANPA, based in Australia). Described at the time as ...>

India summary: Media analysis by Sam Balsara

Sam Balsara is chairman and managing director of Madison Communications Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai, India. We asked him to shed some light on the situation in India. newspaper techniqu ...>

Business Report 2007: Interview with Tobias Trevisan

For the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.), one of Germany’s leading quality newspapers, 2007 was a year of change. Internally there were changes in the organisational structure, while a ...>

Business Report 2007: Interview of Scott Anthony

Scott Anthony is president of Innosight, a consulting firm based in Watertown, Massachussetts and co-author with Harvard professor Clay Christensen of “Blueprint for Transformation” a res ...>

Business Report 2007: Interview with Martin Fabel, A.T. Kearney

For Martin Fabel, Principal of A.T. Kearney in Berlin, publishing houses have understood the new challenges. In the future, however, they should focus even more on generating business themselv ...>

Atex acquires Mactive: Customer reaction

Göteborgs-Posten (GP) in Sweden uses the AdBase advertising solution as well as a subscription system from Mactive. The newspaper has never had any systems from Atex, says Lennart Rosqvist, the newspaper’s IT manager. Here is his reaction about Atex’s acquisition of Mactive. ...>

Gérard Démocrate on business 2006

Gérard Démocrate has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of France's Société Professionnelle des Papiers de Presse (SPPP), which deals with newsprint and other papers and Compagnie Française des Papiers de Presse (CFPP) since 2002. He has also been a member of the Ifra ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Allan Marshall, iMedia Advisory Services

Allan Marshall is a joint principal of iMedia Advisory Services Ltd., the new consulting company jointly formed by Ifra and the principals within iMedia. He is former Group Technical Director o ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from Nicolas Boutet, Wedia

Nicolas Boutet is CEO of Wedia, which was established in 1981 under the name of Datox, a specialist in publishing software for newspapers, the media and business. The company is based in France ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Mike Pelizzoni, BBC Worldwide

Mike Pelizzoni is head of advertisement systems for BBC Worldwide Ltd. (U.K.). newspaper techniques: What Atex and/or Unisys solutions are you using at the moment? < ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from John Marley, News International

John Marley is chief technology officer for News International Ltd., publishers of the U.K. national titles The Times, The Sunday Times, The News of the World and The Sun. News International ru ...>

Atex übernimmt Mediensparte von Unisys: Kurzinterview mit Gerd-Rüdiger Schmidtke von Funkinform

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Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Max Lederer, Stars & Stripes

Max Lederer is general manager of Stars & Stripes, the daily newspaper for the U.S. military communities in Europe, Middle East and Asia. newspaper techniques: Assuming you still ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from an integration specialist

Russell O'Brien is CEO of Bluescribe Pty Limited, a company that specialises in integration and rationalisation projects regarding business and technology. It is based in London, Sydney and Cap ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Klaus Dombrowski, multicom

Klaus Dombrowski is director of system provider multicom, which is based in Germany. newspaper techniques: The systems offering for publishing companies is shrinking. Do ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with consultant Andreas Pfeiffer

Andreas Pfeiffer is in charge of Pfeiffer Consulting and the Pfeiffer Report about technology and business issues in the media industry. newspaper techniques: In general, w ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction of José Bolufer, IT manager at Le Monde

"The newsdesks at the daily newspaper Le Monde have been working with Hermes since 26 June 2000. Unisys is more than just a supplier, because we have also collaborated with its teams on the develo ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Don Oldham, CEO, DTI

newspaper techniques: The system offer just got smaller for publishers; is this a good thing for the industry and for this sector? Don Oldham: More choices are almost alway ...>

Regional business summary: Middle East

As a result of the economic upturn during the first half of 2006, it proved possible to match the circulation figures and ad revenues achieved in 2005. The first changeover of a newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid was carried out at the beginning of the year. According to ...>

Thomas Hauser zur Zeitungsbranche im Jahr 2006

Available in German only. zeitungs­technik: Welches Business-Thema hat Ihrer Meinung nach die Zeitungsbranche im Jahr 2006 am meisten beschäftigt und aus ...>

What was most significant about the business of newspapers in 2006?

Please contribute your viewpoint to the Ifra Newspaper Business Report 2006. From your perspective and that of your newspaper company, what trend stood out as having the most influence on how ...>

David Kirk on business 2006

David Kirk is CEO of Fairfax Media in Australia. The following are excerpts from a speech he made addressing the national Press Club in Canberra, 24. October 2006. “I want to discuss our strategy for our business in a world of structural change for the media – and ...>

Tendencias en la prensa escrita española en 2006

Available in Spanish only. por Iñaki Arechabaleta Torróntegui, director general de medios impresos del grupo de comunicación Vocento. En el año 2006 cabe destacar la tendenci ...>

Manfred Werfel on business 2006

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Manfred Werfel: Maybe we can ...>

Dietmar Schantin on business 2006

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Dietmar Schantin: The start ...>

Phillip Crawley on business 2006

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Philip Crawley: Ownership di ...>

Gunnar Springfeldt on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Gunnar Springfeldt: The most ...>

Interview with Tony Ridder

In his time as CEO of Knight Ridder, Tony Ridder brought the company years of success. But changing market conditions – the decline of employment-classified advertising, the decline in readership, a stagnant national economy – halted revenue growth. Soon analysts ha ...>

Steffen Helmschrott, Berliner Zeitungsdruck, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Sverre Munck, Schibsted ASA, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Steve Yelvington, Morris Digital Works, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Murdoch MacLennan, Telegraph Group, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Mike Coleman, Cape Publications, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Franz Rossi, Tera Digital Publishing, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

David Stamp, PrintCity, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? David Stamp: The PrintCity a ...>

Bob Brown, Goss, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Bob Brown: 2006 will be char ...>

Analysis on France: by Jean-Clément Texier

“At a time when financial globalisation in all sectors of the economy is causing an in-rush of hedge funds that increase primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary leveraged buy-outs ...>

Analysis on Europe: by Christian Rauch

Christian Rauch European Media Analyst Moody's Investors Service “When we look at 2006, we notice that public media companies have been the target for private equity firms. There was more speculation than real actions, but if you look at the VNU acquisition (The N ...>

Analysis on Germany / Europe: Q&A with Martin Fabel

Martin Fabel reports that German newspaper companies, like others in Europe, have done quite well at diversifying their operations – into book publishing, CDs, DVDs, events, and the Internet. ...>

Analysis on U.K.: Q&A with Charles Peacock

Charles Peacock, who analyses the newspaper industry for Seymour Pierce in Great Britain, says the British market has generally been stagnant, though some newspapers (not all) are continuing t ...>

Analysis on U.S.A.: Q&A with Steven Rattner

Steven Rattner is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC focused on the firm’s $2.9 billion media and communications private equity business. Rattner sees a dim future for newspapering i ...>

Trend lines

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Reaction from José Manuel Lozano, KBA client

José Manuel Lozano is general manager of Heraldo de Aragón, Spain. newspaper techniques: How do you regard the sale by MAN AG of MAN Roland Druckmaschinen to Allianz Capital Pa ...>

Interview mit Alexander Diekmann

Die Verlagsgruppe Passau orderte bei der letzten IfraExpo vor einem halben Jahr zwei Colorman-Rotationen für die Passauer Neue Presse (Neue Presse Verlags-GmbH) und eine Colorman 4/1-Maschine für Polskapresse in Polen. Alexander Diekmann ist Geschäftsführer d ...>

More flexibility going 'alone'

by Manfred Werfel Now has happened what analysts have long expected. MAN is divesting itself of its press division. However, the separation is not quite total and final, as MAN retains a significant minority share of 35 percent. The main owner will be the Allianz ...>

Reaction from Kjell Johnson, industry consultant

As far as MAN Roland’s customers go, existing ones will probably hope for improved service and aftersales, as promised in the statement from Allianz. Of course there is also the threat of pric ...>

Comment from merger expert Owen Van Essen

newspaper techniques: Does the sale of Knight Ridder to McClatchy signal major changes in the way newspapers will be valued? Owen Van Essen: Knight Ridder is one of just ...>

Reaction from U.S. consultant Chuck Blevins

newspaper techniques: What are some of the questions MAN Roland customers in the United States will be thinking about? Chuck Blevins: Why was it necessary to go to a priv ...>

Interview with Frédéric Fabre, client of MAN Roland

Frédéric Fabre is the director of Roto Garonne (Sud Ouest Group) in France, which has been using MAN Roland Cromoman presses since 2000. newspaper techniques: Should Man Roland ...>

Interview with Purnendu Sen, client of MAN Roland

Purnendu Sen is the technical director of Bennett, Coleman & Co, Ltd., printers of The Times of India in Mumbai and owners of a Geoman. newspaper techniques: Were you aware of ...>

Interview with Julián Esteban, client of MAN Roland

During IfraExpo 2005, MAN Roland announced the sale to the Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo of a Colorman 4x1, to be installed before the end of this year. Julián Esteban is technical manager ...>

Interview with Gerd Finkbeiner, CEO of MAN Roland

In an exclusive interview with newspaper techniques, Gerd Finkbeiner confirmed that he will remain as CEO of MAN Roland Druckmaschinen, and steer the company into its future with a new ...>

Now MAN Roland also wants a stock exchange listing

by Boris Fuchs Two years ago, when the RWE power company sold its majority share in the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG through the stock exchange, Bernhard Schreier, Heidelberger cha ...>

Viewpoint from Uwe Junglas, Ifra

The separation of the printing press division from the MAN group is an entirely logical development. Allianz Capital Partners can be expected to exert their influence and reorganise and streamline the company. Although it is too early to judge to what degree, MAN Roland ...>