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From: Everyone@itp.com [mailto:Everyone@itp.com] On Behalf Of Sue Walters
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:58 PM
To: everyone@itp.com
Subject: ITP Newsletter
October 2007 ITP Business Publishing It was GITEX, GITEX, GITEX in August and September as the ITP Business team put in another awesome performance at the Middle East's largest trade exhibition.
It was touch and go in the weeks running up to GITEX though, as the Summer exodus and market apathy made it look as if the formidable sales target would not be reached. But thanks to a final week flurry and active selling down at the show itself, the sales team nudged over its target on the final day of GITEX. Editorial also played a blinder at the show, accommodating countless requests to 'be nice' to clients and dealing effortlessly with all Matthew's flatplan changes.
Sevag and his photography team again showed how good they've become at trade shows. Not a single photo shoot was missed and not a single photo went missing.
Helping ensure that this year's 16 show dailies actually happened were Subahar and Mohammed. In just a few hours on a Friday afternoon, they set up a press room with 25 networked PCs in and kept it running throughout the five days of the show.
Thanks to Dan and his marketing team, ITP and its brands were everywhere at GITEX. The ACN Arab Technology Awards evening was particularly impressive, and goes down as one of the company's most successful awards dinners to date.
Many thanks to everyone who made this year's GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK another resounding success.
Back in the office, a new hardline approach from Neil Baker meant there were almost no instances of 'last-minute-front-cover syndrome' last month. Concepts were decided upon early and most covers were done by the middle of the month. Well done to the entire editorial team.
Getting all those covers out early meant that Neil had plenty of time to design a mere two new magazines in September. Both PMV and Architecture looked the part and surely have a great future ahead of them. Congratulations to Jeff Roberts, Emily Potts, Charlotte Butterfield, Stuart Matthews and Neil Baker on the new launches.
ITP Consumer Publishing Women's Lifestyle:
Emirates Home
Two girls, one magazine! Special thanks go to Samar Sadik who has been of invaluable help not just on the design front but also on the shoots with the styling and propping. Emirates Home sadly says farewell to Saffron Goodyear after two great years of hard work and sales triumphs. We wish her every success in her new role on the Time Out team. And after holding the fort on our own for two months, we look forward to welcoming our new features editor Monika Grzesik who joins us from Construction Week.
Viva
For the September issue features Ed Katherine burnt the midnight oil this month when she tracked down the 9/11 prisoner and victim's mums who have joined together to fight terrorism. While Senior Features Writer Aoife found out about the dreaded human smuggling trade that is hitting Oman's shores. New starters Pepita, Celia and Catherine worked their fingers to the bone too. Pepita not only soldiered on alone when indispensable Els took a few well-earned days off, but also braved the traffic for this month's test drive. Newcomer Catherine Langley brought us some fearless reporting - facing a group of opinionated women for a story on irritating in-laws and picture researcher Celia tracked down possibly our best-looking cover ever. VIVA staffers we salute you!
October issue is VIVA's real-life special and our features team tracked down a host of must-read stories. On top of this they've also put together VIVA's first-ever Designer Auction. Tiffany, Mulberry, Louboutins - all up for grabs from Dhs1 on souq.com. Every dirham spent will go to Breast Cancer Foundation of the Emirates. Tell your friends!
Harper's Bazaar
Congratulations to the Harper's Bazaar sales team - Lauren Fryer, Vidhya and Penelope Georgakis who smashed their targets for the September & October issues. Likewise, the editorial team heralded the start of the Autumn/Winter fashion season with an impressive September issue filled with exclusive interviews and stunning locally-produced photo shoots. The team also welcome new fashion and beauty editor Sarah Joan Ross, who has joined the team from the UK and previously worked as Beauty Director at UK Elle.
October issue features Oscar nominee, Thandie Newton, on the cover and includes a beautiful shoot with celebrated fashion photographer Matthew Shave in London to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Matthew Williamson's label.
Wedding
Warning! No one mention the words 'Big Day' or 'emerald cut diamonds' to Penny McCormick (unless you're on bended knee proposing!). Seriously though, a huge thank you to all on the First Floor who have helped put together the latest issue of Wedding – a real triumph of effort over time!L'Officiel ME
For the new season, L'Officiel ME is adopting a sleek look! Check out the new layout with the September issue which was implemented in a record time (15 days) thanks to our creative art editor, Dima Elatab, who worked hand in hand with our editorial team to make it happen. September also witnessed a new version of L'Officiel Sharkiah, again with a whole new layout, great features and elegant shoots, addressing the modern and local women in the Arabian Gulf.
October is definitely L'Officiel's month with an international event organised by L'Officiel for the city of Bern, Switzerland, as a closing ceremony for a 5 week event called Arabian Nights. The closing ceremony will witness a fashion show by Kuwaiti designer Adiba El Mahboub, and our team will be covering the event, mainly in the form of a shoot on "the Top Of The world', and mingling with VIPs from Switzerland and the GCC for vibrant event coverage. The October edition also features lebanese designer Adam Zayat introducing the brand new "Prete Couture", and star designer Frank Zambrelli, UAE movie maker Nayla AlKhaja, and a stunning photoshoot featuring Jodie Foster,exclusively for L'Officiel Middle East.
Congratulations to Group Editor, Souha Abbas and her family who had a beautiful baby girl weighing 3.8kgs on Saturday 22nd September.
Welcome and good luck to Projects Director, Sue Taylor, who joins us from EMAP to head up ITPC's brand extensions. Her first two tasks will be to get the L'Officiel Hommes' Most Wanted and Harpers Bazaar's Best Dressed events to fly before the end of the year.
Women's Lifestyle also gained a new Marketing Manager in August; Jolene Nash, who joins us from Marie Claire and In-Style UK.
Time Out Group
Time Out Group had a busy month with Jeremy and Chris Anderson working hard on the soon to be published, Milan Guide. Well done guys for all your efforts on this last minute project!
This month saw the autumn edition of the Time Out Dubai Kids Guide bagged with the Ramadan issue of Time Out Dubai. As well as increased point of sale in Spinneys and Borders stores throughout the city, flyers and banners were distributed to Magrudys and the Magic Planet at Deira City Centre and Mall of the Emirates branches to promote this special issue. In addition to this activity, a two week radio campaign was also aired on Coast FM. Well done to Sarah Lucas on this impactful campaign.
Chris Anderson and Scott Walker worked together on a 56-page preview for the Rugby World Cup 2007, currently taking place in France. It has to be the most thorough guide to the event in the city, featuring a complete fixtures list, information and prospects for each team taking part, plus info on the best places to watch around town.
Men's Lifestyle
Congratulations to Robbie & Christine who have worked hard on the new look for Middle East Golfer. The magazine has been completely modernised and initial feedback from the golf trade has been wholly positive - well done to you both!
Charged literally rocked the socks off Gitex Shopper this year with its Guitar Hero Challenge. Hundreds of visitors took part in the competition, which saw wannabe rockers pit their rhythmical wits against each other, strumming wildly to a variety of rock classics. The elaborately designed stand gained considerable pr coverage including Gulf News, E-Gamers, Channel 4 Radio, City 7 and Sama Dubai TV.
Congratulations to Alex Ritman for his single-handed efforts on Charged September and well done to Stuart Matthewson for generating the biggest revenue issue of the year.
Well done to Toby Haws who again managed to get a shot of himself on the September front cover of Boat Owner ME and welcome to new Ad Manager, Scott Walker who joins us from IPC's Motor Boat Monthly.
Welcome to Thair Soukar, the new Group Editor, Men's Arabic titles, whom brings a wealth of editorial experience. His initial task is to overhaul L'Officiel Hommes.
ITP Digital Publishing A strong way to finish Q3 with revenues crossing the all important psychological barrier of $500,000 in a month for the first time for ITP Digital.
Big congrats to the ArabianBusiness.com team for all of their efforts in September. Editorial broke traffic record after traffic record during the month, peaking at 19,442 visits on 24 Sep and generating 63,397 page views. This took the total page views for the month over the magical million mark. ArabianBusiness.com was visited 351,000 times by 163,000 unique visitors and its crack sales team, Richard O'Sullivan and Elliot Lintott, made that pay with a record $177,225 in revenue.
September also saw the launch of ArabianBusiness.com/Jobs, headed up by Toni Morley-Taylor. The site has been very well received by advertisers and users alike. Billings crossed $10,0 00 this month, but the real news was over 1,000 applications sent via the site last week and more than 200 last Monday.
Well done to all for a truly exceptional performance.
But it has not been all ArabianBusiness.com this month. TimeOutDubai.com faced its highest target of the year during Ramadan - and beat it. The team also found time to launch weekly restaurant and Rugby World Cup newsletters as well. With record targets for the rest of the year, and plans to redevelop the nightlife section and launch film, nightlife and shopping weekly newsletters, it is well placed for a very strong finish to the year.
AhlanLive.com is entering its soft launch stage - the time that we get to learn what works and what doesn't. Tweaks are still be made to the site, but early indications are that the visitors like it. Visitors are viewing more than 8 pages per visit, more than double the page views that we get to our other sites.
Finally it was a tough month for ITP.net from a sales point of view, with GITEX so early in the year and very high targets. It was tough also for the editorial team, with 8 halls to cover in 5 days talking to the great and good from the Middle East ICT industry. Well done to Mark and Michelle - as well as all of the ITP Business editorial team - for a stunning GITEX as well as some great articles and interviews at the show.
Roll on Q4.Spectrum Digital Print Solutions Operations
The Spectrum web2print solution went live in the last week of September, hours of hard work have gone into the configuration and bug testing of the portal, my thanks to Daniel Rodgers for doing such a good job and leading the instillation so competently. Expect to see more product selections being launched on the estimating tool over the next few months and additional enterprise clients joining our anchor customer Xerox for the hosted print solutions we can now manage and provide.
Industry experts around the world are writing that web2print production is the way of the future for print production; we are leading this initiative in the region.
Sales
We welcome Andrew Harker to the Spectrum team, Andrew will be specialising in sales of VDP and Hosted Solutions, the company has some clear commercial advantages in both these markets so we look forward to seeing him capitalise on them.
Digital
Variable Data Printing (VDP)
New clients to start using Spectrum for VDP are as follows : Al Attar Group – Personalised customer communications, Hertz – personalised direct mail, Landmark Group, Splash – Personalised birthday cards, IQPC – Personalised invitations.
Thanks to the sterling efforts of Graeme Selby, VDP is now gathering momentum. Big name clients are reporting very impressive response rates and are now willing to discuss second and third campaigns on the strength of the results. We are getting "copy cat" inquiries which should be a sign of things to come. Well done Graeme.Fixed Image (FI)
Our retail team together with the sales force continue to build good relationships with those of our clients that have requirements for small quantities of high quality corporate presentations, recent new client gains have been, The First Group, PA Consulting Group - & Jones Lang LaSalle. Often these requirements are met in time scales that are measured in minutes rather than hours or days, very well done to all in operations for keeping all the balls in the air and I thank you!Print Management
New clients to start using Spectrum's print management service are: London Business School, The MMG group, Ducab and Falcon college.
Print Management is a new part of our business and has lots of potential. Well done to Ladan Rahbary for the clients wins so far and judging by her prospect list we will have a number of important new wins to "write home about" this time next month.Internal Vacancies Spectrum Digital Print Solutions is looking for a BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE. If you're interested, please email your CV to graeme.selby@spectrumdubai.com
New Staff - August 07 Mehroof Mohamed - Media Trafficker, ITP Digital
Mehroof joins ITP from American Systems USA where he working as a Sales Consultant, Business Development.Mark Sutton - Editor, ITP.net
Mark joins ITP from the UK where worked as Account Director for The Portsmouth Group. He previously worked for ITP as Editor on Computer Reseller News up to November 2004.Abdulmonem Al Fadhel - Sales Manager, CEO Arabic
Abdulmenem previously worked for 3 Points Advertising in Dubai in their Client Servicing and Strategic Planning Department.Amy Glass - Deputy Editor, Arabian Property
Amy joins ITP from London where she worked as a Reporter for Investment Week Magazine (London).Noor Mahdi - Credit Controller
Noor joins ITP from BUZZ (Contact Centre Solutions) part of Emirates Bank Group in Sharjah.Priya Ragoowansi - Deputy Advertisement Manager, Viva
Priya originates from India where she worked as and Advertising Executive on L'Officiel in Mumbai.Jemima Dilla - Image Retoucher
Jemima joins ITP from AL Nisr Publishing L.L.C. – Gulf News in Dubai.Talal Malik - Senior Journalist, Arabian Business.com
Talal previously worked as a Journalist for Middle Eastern Correspondent in Egypt.Ishaq Siddiqi - Assistant Editor, MEP
Ishaq joins ITP from the UK where he worked as a News Reporter/Writer for the LLC Newspaper and online site.Christina Corbett - Senior Staff Writer, Arabian Business
Christina has previously worked as a Journalist for Fox News, Fox and Friends in London.Laura Collacott - Assistant Editor, CEO Middle East
Laura Joins ITP from the UK where she previously worked as a Fitness training consultancy course Advisor.Christopher Earnshaw - Sales Manager, MEP
Chris Earnshaw joins ITP from the UK where he has previously worked as Account Manager for SMG – Primesight.Anmol Raj Sahota - Art Editor, ITP Business
Anmol has previously worked as a Designer for Lowe Worldwide.Laura Parker - Sales Manager, Dentist Middle East
Laura has previously worked as a Sales & Marketing Manager for Visual Magic in Tanzania.Marie Maakaroun - Sales Manager, Health Care ME
Marie originates from Australia where she has previously worked as an Academic Sales Representative for Pearson Education Australia.Rebecca Wicks - News Editor, Ahlan Live
Rebecca Wicks has previously worked as a Deputy Editor for Explorer Publishing in Dubai.Jolene Yeo - Marketing Manager
Jolene Yeo originates from London where she has previously worked for IPC Media as a Marketing Manager.Sarah Ross - Fashion & Beauty Editor, Harpers Bazaar
Sarah Ross previously worked as a Beauty Stylist & Writer for ELLE.Aisha Riaz - Production Coordinator, ITP Executive
Aisha joins ITP from the UK where she has previously worked for Parsley Production.Bryan Mayes - Junior Designer, ITP Executive
Bryan has previously worked as a Designer for Bravado PromotionsAnne Walker - Sales Manager, Retail News
Anne originates from the UK where she previously worked as a Travel Advertisement Manager for IPC Media.Ramamoorthy Magesh - IT Support
Magesh originates from India where he previously worked for AVV Technologies.Farah Omar - Press Editor, Arabian Properties
Farah has previously worked as an Assistant Field Researcher for Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Mohamed Giado - Staff Writer, ACN
Mohamed originates from Sri Lanka. He has been previously working as a freelancer in Dubai.Wael Al-Lababidi - Deputy Editor, Arabian Business.com/Arabic
Wael has previously worked as a Business Reporter/ Translator at Al – Khaleej newspaper in Sharjah.Khaled El Khoury - Deputy Sales Manager, L'Officiel
Khaled has previously worked as a Head of Sales / Front Office Executive for Rivera Hotels.Theotokis Makris - Sales Executive, Arabian Banking & Finance
Theotokis previously worked for FSW Securities in Berlin as an Equity BrokerLama Yassine - Marketing Manager, ITP Executive
Lama has previously worked for Venture Communications in Dubai.Welcome back!
Francis Morgan - Advertising Director, Men's Lifestyle titles
New Staff - September 07 Youmna Yammine - Assistant Editor, Ahlan! Arabic
Youmna joins ITP from the Ministry of Education in Dubai where she worked as a Translator.Rami Tayarah - Sales Executive, Arabian Property Arabic
Rami previously worked as a Customer Relations Officer for Emirates Computer Company in Dubai.Rosa Alias Rekha - Data Entry Operator
Rosa is a fresher taking up her first job with ITP since leaving University.Fatima El Homsi - Features Writer, Customer Publishing
Fatima previously worked as a PR Manager for Venture Communication in Dubai.Chandni Devnani - Website Content Executive
Chandni has previously worked as a Sales Coordinator for Sound line Electronics in Dubai.Selin Arkut - Assistant Editor, Oil & Gas ME
Selin originates from the UK where she worked as a Sales Advisor for Bentalls Department Store.Nour El Din Solomon - Sales Manager, Car Arabic
Nour previously worked as a Project Manager for The Domus Group in Dubai.Jan Stoop - Designer, Etihad Inflight
Jan originates from South Africa where he was working as a freelancer.Suzanne Taylor - Director, Projects
Suzanne originates from the UK where she has previously worked as Group Commercial Director, EMAP Sports Division.Anil Tejwani - Web Designer, Online
Anil previously worked as a Manager for Megabyte Cafe in Sharjah.Jeffrey Roberts - Editor, Architect
Jeffrey is an American national but joins ITP from Japan where he worked as a Managing Editor for Scope Magazine in Tokyo.Marija Kovijanic - Key Account Manager, Channel ME
Marija joins ITP from the UK where she worked as a Travel Sales Executive for The Daily Mirror in London.Husam Jbara - Features Editor, L'Officiel Hommes
Husam previously was employed as Editor of Paris Gallery in Dubai prior to which he was Educational Secretary for Shades Media Publishing Company also in Dubai.Lee Crawford - Junior Designer, Men's Lifestyle
Lee joins ITP from the UK where he worked as a Designer for Doctor Who Magazine for BBC Worldwide.Victor Besa - Staff Photographer, Ahlan & Grazia
Victor originates from the Philippines where he has worked as a photographer for various magazines and newspapers.Charumathi Palaniraj - Sales Co-ordinator, Directories
Charumathi previously worked for the Du Smart Yellow Pages as a Sales Co-ordinator.Ghassan Saleh Dardir - Art Editor, CEO & Arabian Property (Arabic)
Ghassan previously worked as an Art Director for Ad Markets ME in Dubai.Scott Matthew Walker - Sales Manager, Boat Owner ME
Scott originates from the UK where he worked as a Senior Sales Executive for IPC Media.Hana Saleh Ali Zahira - Reporter, ITP
Hana previously worked for CNBC Arabia in Media City as a Writer.Fawzia Yassmineh - Editor, Arabian Properties
Fawzia originates from Syria where she worked as an Editor for Al Iktisadiah Magazine. -K.A Jamal - Motorbike Messenger
Jamal previously worked as a bike messenger for SNTTA Travel in Dubai.Richard D'Cruze - Web Content Executive, ITP Digital
Richard has previously worked for ITP as a Freelancer and now joins our permanent staff.Lauren Willington - Staff Writer, Construction Week
Lauren joins ITP from Stockport in the UK where she worked as Online News Editor for LCC News.Lisa Hodge - Editor, First Class
Lisa joins ITP from Sunderland in the UK where she worked as a New Reporter on the Sunderland Echo.Tracey Pitts - Sales Manager, Arabian Travel News
Tracey joins ITP from Sydney, Australia where she was employed by www.virtualmedicalcentre.com as a Business Development Manager.Amel Badji - Press Writer, Arabian Property
Amel joins ITP from Al Aquaria Group in Dubai where she worked as a Journalist. She has also worked as a Journalist in Algeria for Khaleej Newspaper.Mohammed Bin Naser - Database Researcher, Directories
Mohammed previously worked for Eurostar Communications in Dubai dealing with Showtime and Orbit amongst others.Rouba Attieh - Production Co-ordinator
Rouba joins ITP from Track Advertising where she worked as a Graphic Designer / Pre-Press.Gemma Waskiewicz - Credit Controller
Gemma joins ITP from the UK where she graduated from FTC Kaplan in Birmingham as an NVQ Level 3 Associated Accounting Technician.Amnas Safeer - Web Developer, ITP Digital
Amnas previously worked as an Intersolv PVCS Version Manager for TATA Consultancy Services in Kerala, India.Richard Wilson - Chief Photographer, Consumer
Richard joins ITP from the UK, but he has recently worked in Melbourne, Australia as a Director / Photographer for Wilson Pictures.Geoffrey Cadenhouse-Beaty - Sales Executive, Construction Week
Geoffrey also joins ITP from the UK where he was employed as a Classified Senior Account Executive with The Independent Newspaper.Gemma Zinyama - Sales Manager, Commercial Outdoor Design
Gemma joins ITP from the UK where she was part of the BBC1 series “Castaway”, a social experiment lasting 3 months on the Great Barrier Island in New Zealand. She previously worked for ACCA in London.Welcome back!
Anisha Motwani - Deputy Advertisement Manager Ahlan! Masala
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