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Newsletter #4  Spring 2009

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ONWARDS & UPWARDS
By Andy Cassie

By now I am sure you are fed up to the back teeth with the gloom, doom and despondency…. and from a personal perspective the year certainly hasn’t been a cracker! However, with Leicester City promoted, things are looking up!

For all of those that sent their best wishes and cards following my skiing accident - a big thank you. If I’m honest it has certainly been rather an ordeal but hopefully I am now on the road to a full recovery - thanks to the inventors of titanium plates and screws, which have allowed me to enhance my good looks.

On a positive note, I’m pleased to announce that from May we will have a satellite office, based in Ellesmere Port. We’ve set this up with a view to offering PR support for some of our Northern-based clients initially and PR Account Manager, Jo Evennett (née Curtis!!) will now be based there. For those Southerners lucky to have Jo as their account manager, fear not! She’ll continue to do a grand job for you and will be regularly down our way.

Finally, in terms of this little missive, hopefully some of the content will leave you richer in spirit and up for the challenges ahead.


THE CIMCIG CONFERENCE
- SURVIVING THE RECESSION

The one-day conference in February was aimed at helping construction marketers and companies come through the downturn in good shape, ready for the upturn. Our very own Andy Cassie was asked to speak on how the marketing mix will change throughout these tough times. Andy also presented the findings from the CIMCIG and CIB survey.



CIMCIG / CIB SURVEY

As some of you will be aware, the CIMCIG / CIB survey was distributed to 1,200 marketers across the construction industry to generate research into current marketing trends. The aim was to provide the most comprehensive survey of the industry, how it is changing and the various factors that influence marketing strategy.

»Click here for the results podcast.

NEWS

Building Design has gone subscription.
Plant Managers Journal is now bi-monthly.
Progressive Media has launched a new site for designers, architects, and specifiers, World Interior Design Network. The website is an ‘umbrella site’ for Blueprint, FX and idFX.
Click here to view
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Waverley, publishers of Housing Association, R&R and MMC, has launched School Building Magazine, incorporating the latest news and reviews from the Building Schools for the Future programme. Stable Publishing has also launched Education Design & Build, a real reflection of where many believe the (only?) money is.
Building Services Journal is no longer published by UBM (formerly CMPi) and has been replaced by Building Sustainable Design, aimed at building services, with an additional 3,000 architects also added to its circulation.
Red Active Media has launched the CIBSE Journal - the official magazine of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. Click here for the media pack.
HHM – Healthcare and Hygiene Management from MPP (launched in 2008) has gone bi-monthly.
Product cards have been dropped by a whole host of publications, including Building, Building Design, HABM, LABM, PSLG. Do the publishers know something we don’t, or is it that just when you start to look for response driven media, they pull the plug? Another casualty is the dreaded literature panel (hurrah) – this will show who can really do PR and who can’t!

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

James Parker is the new editor of Building Products.
Martin Read has left MPP and the current editor is Wayne Cyrus (no relation to Billy Ray, we think!).
Keely Portway is now the editor of Window, Fabricator & Installer magazine.
Elaine Knutt is now the editor of Construction Manager, with Will Hunter taking Elaine’s place as editor of BD Magazine.
Aaron Morby is now the editor of Contract Journal.
Nick Edwards’ remit has changed and he is now responsible for the entire construction and built environment market (both editorial and commercial) for EMAP, incorporating Construction News, Heating & Ventilation News, RAC and Lighting magazines.

WHAT ARE YOU?
SOME KIND OF CHAMELEON?



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