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From: Everyone@itp.com [mailto:Everyone@itp.com] On Behalf Of Sue Walters
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:56 PM
To: everyone@itp.com
Subject: November Newsletter
November 2007 ITP Business Publishing
There was no rest for ITP Business in October as a new launch and a number of massive trade shows coming up in November meant it was another busy month.
The Aviation Business team excelled, putting together its largest issue of the year for this month’s Dubai Airshow. The editorial team produced 100+ pages packed full of CEO interviews, design helped give the magazine a brand new look and the sales team took the magazine over its biggest sales target of the year.
The Construction Week team had its hands full as it began to prepare for the BIG 5 exhibition at the end of November. In addition to the weekly issues of CW, the team squeezed in a BIG 5 show preview and a developer supplement. Preparation for the five BIG 5 show dailies is also well underway.
The Architect, CID, FM and MEP teams were equally busy, putting out bumper BIG 5 issues and again taking the titles over their sales targets. The production team remained as cool as ever, dealing effortlessly with last minute page increases and lots of flatplan reshuffles.
Elsewhere in ITP Business, Medical Times reached its October working month target, Utilities Middle East and Arabian Banking & Finance both hit their numbers for the third month in a row and the hospitality titles again beat their targets easily. October also saw a new addition to the hospitality group in the shape of Leisure Manager, whose first issue matched the same high standards of ITP Business’s other recent launches.
Retail News nudged over target for the second month in a row and both editions of Windows continued their recent rallies. In the DIC office, the Business Information Systems Group continues to build up momentum. Revenue is flooding into the group’s first business directory ahead of its late December launch.
The marketing and events teams were busy preparing for the Hotelier, CID and CW awards, which will all take place over the next month. All will doubtless be up to the same high standard established by this year’s previous awards evenings. Whilst all that was going on, work continued on November’s CW Conference and what is shaping up to be an excellent speaker schedule.
ITP Consumer Publishing Women’s Lifestyle
Only plague and pestilence was missing from the VIVA office this month. We would add fire but on top of everything else we smelt burning in the IT cupboard next to our desks. However, the depleted team through sheer willpower and cheap garage biscuits still managed to get a bumper issue and a supplement out of the door. Katherine, Elliott, Chee, Celia, Jenny, Pepita and Shital. You are stars, you really are.
Though we couldn’t have done it on our own. Which is why we’d like to say a HUGE thank you for the Harpers team for pitching in and coming to our rescue while they were putting their own mag to bed.
Between trips to the various fashion weeks around the world during September and October, the Harper's Bazaar team still managed to put together another beautiful issue, featuring Kate Hudson on the cover and themed with a 'Body and Beauty' focus. Our styling team of Sarah Maisy and Sally Matthews were busy in London after fashion week organising the stunning Dominatrix fashion shoot featured this issue.
Huge congratulations to Gemma Champ who was announced our new Lifestyle Editor, while retaining her senior sub editor title (what a multitasking champion!) and to Imen Ben Ayed who has been promoted to designer. A warm welcome to intern Mariam Amro, who has fast become an invaluable member of the editorial team (not to mention our in-house model!)On the advertising side, huge applause for the sales team, Lauren Fryer and Vidhya, who smashed their sales target once again for the November issue. Welcome to Sandra Z who joins as the deputy sales manager from L'Officiel, where "Fur" is the word for our November edition. This month has a detailed preview and a fashion shoot featuring some of the latest creations for a warm winter. As promised last month, we take our readers all the way to Berne, where L'officiel Middle East was the official magazine and the organizer of a major event under the patronage of HH Sheikh Saoud Bin Sakr AlQassemi, ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, and the city of Berne. As usual, we took the coverage much further than mere society pages, to offer our readers an amazing fashion shoot on "the top of the world" with breathtaking images.So thumbs up for our editorial team, as well as our sales team who managed to meet a challengingly high target this month."
Men’s Lifestyle
November sees the biggest issue of CAR Middle East produced to date with 144 pages in the main issue along with a 56 page supplement providing the ultimate guide to the Dubai Motor Show. This meant it closed with the largest revenue earning since its launch! While they were at it, they've redesigned the magazine, to give it great new look and real contemporary feel. A great effort from the CAR team!
They weren’t the only men’s title to have a great month as Middle East Golfer also closed over target, and achieved the largest revenue in MEG history, well done Stuart M.This month Charged unearthed a secret location (the alleyway by the side of the Party Store) for its sophisticated and extremely intellectual 'Girls and Tools' cover shoot. Sadly the team soon had to fend off the interest of passing strangers, who were either captivated by the wide array of expensive power tools on display, or more interested in the female bikini-clad DIY expert/model holding them.
With the weather cooling off, Boat Owner has been leaping back on the water again by speeding around in high-powered RIBs, performing a world-exclusive test on a Jebel Ali-built motor cruiser and seeing if the Italian modern design really works in a modern powerboat. The November issue also introduces the inaugural Arabian Gulf Yachting Awards, to be held on the 10th November, and recognising all the effort marine companies have put in over the past 12 months.
Oh, and Boat Owner is also looking for a new editor to step in from the end of November.Time Out Group
Another busy month for the Time Out team has seen Time Out Dubai and Abu Dhabi both burst back into life as the cities wake up after the summer slumber and a number of key guides completed. It has been a month of big interviews for the magazines, Becky Lucas took on the biggest ego in hip hop, Kanye West and won and Matthew Pomroy who after signing the interview equivalent of a pre-nup managed to (almost) interview Justin Timberlake.
There have been some key promotions on both magazines. Congratulations to Time Abu Dhabi’s new Editor, Matthew Pomroy and features writer Scott Walker. Changes on the TOD team as well, well done to Jeremy Lawrence (who is now the Deputy Editor), Andy Buchan (the new Features Editor) and Becky Lucas (who takes on Nightlife). Mark Smith also joins the weekly team as Books and Music Editor. More changes are afoot so watch this space.
On the guides team, congratulations to Dana El Baltaji, Kaye Holland and David Donaghy for a great new edition of the Muscat visitor’s guide and to Ananda Shakespeare for spearheading the new edition of the Shopping Guide. Finally, October also saw the first copies of the Time Out City Guide enter the building. This year’s book is a vast improvement on the previous editions and early word is that it is outselling other guides to the region. Congratulations to the entire team.
ITP Lifestyle Publishing It's been a busy month for the Lifestyle team...
Ahlan! English
Not only did The Hot 100 Things To Do fly off the shelves this month, Lucy Wildman and Gemma White revamped the Glamour section and introduced a fantastic new fashion and beauty section, Star Style, that has more celeb style secrets than Rachel Zoe!
Many thanks to Group Art Editor, Cate Warde for yet another inspired Ahlan! makeover!Ahlan! Masala
Happy Birthday to all the team, who celebrated the 200th issue of their hit magazine and gave away more than Dhs160,000 worth of gifts for their readers! Now that's a party we'd like to be invited to!Ahlan! Arabic
Ahlan! Arabic launched Style Arabia - the region's first fashion and beauty guide and event for our most fashionable and trendsetting local readers. Full of celebs and fashion and exclusive interviews with Ellie Saab, Walid Atallah and Haifa Wehbe, it's the Arabic style bible for this season.
Many thanks to Mirei, Dani, Sawsan and Mohammad for creating such a ground-breaking event!Grazia
Aside from smashing October's sales target, Grazia had possibly the craziest month of its history, as the editorial team was whittled down to a core of four people for three weeks. That the 32-page guide to Wafi shopping mall was produced during this period is thanks to the exceptional hard work of the whole team, and especially Helen Carter, Elaine Greenshields and Anna Whitehouse. Thanks also to Autumn Mooney for her invaluable support carrying Grazia's picture desk during this time, and Gemma Champ and Jenny King for helping us cope without a sub. Even Donatella Versace pitched in, writing a column for the Wafi guide - cheers Donatella!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Katie Heskett who has been promoted to Group Editor for the Ahlan Group, overseeing Ahlan! English, Ahlan! Masala, Ahlan! Arabic, Hot 100 and Jet Set.
Congratulations to Louise Pyne who has been promoted to Health and Beauty Writer, and many thanks to Colwyn Kidger for all her tireless work on the Hot 100 and Jet Set.
Congratulations to Nicola and Lauren on the Grazia sales team for hitting their target yet again!ITP Digital Publishing This month ITP Digital salutes ITP.net, which has won the prestigious "IT Portal Outstanding Achievement Award", an association created to recognize excellence in the IT Industry. This is an achievement that not only belongs to Editor Mark Sutton and journalist Michele Howe who have guided the Web site, but also to its contributors from ITP Business - Mathew Southwell, Elliot Beer, Andrew Seymour - amongst many others. A huge congratulations to you all.
TimeOutDubai.com also edged past another milestone, moving up 70,000 places on the Alexa ranking for Web sites, and making it within the top 100,000 sites in the world. With millions of sites around the world vying for attention that is a real achievement - but is only the start. As we speak the second nightlife newsletter is being prepared, just ahead of the maiden flight of the first TimeOutDubai Film email which will make its debut in November.
ArabianBusiness.com meanwhile just keeps on growing. The English-language site has now cruised past one million page impressions a month, while a new editor has taken the helm of ArabianBusiness.com/Arabic. Ahmed Shahem Shareef succeeded in doubling the site's readership in his first week as Editor - not a bad start. We're just waiting to see what he can achieve by the end of the year.
Meanwhile ITP Digital's sales teams look set for yet another impressive month. Richard O'Sullivan and Elliot Lintott look set to guide ArabianBusiness.com over the $200,000 mark for the first time in its history, while Colin Saldanha has stepped up to the plate with confidence after Karl Hougaard's departure. Last but not least all star Stuart Morgan looks set to hit eight sales targets out of eight for TimeOutDubai.com.
Perhaps the most exciting news story to come out of ITP Digital this month was with TimeOutTickets.com which secured exclusive rights for the Justin Timberlake concert to be held in Abu Dhabi next month. Including sales of Rugby 7s tickets, ITP Digital has sold 17,795 tickets in October, with a value of over Dhs 5 million. Well done to Hitesh and Arvind.
Finally a sneak preview of what's to come. Next month should see two new additions to the ITP family with AhlanMasala.com and ArabianBusiness.com/Property coming online. It's been an exciting year for ITP Digital so far, but it seems the best has really yet to come.
ITP Executive Publishing
A strong month for ITP Executive, with Arabian Business English crossing $300k for the first time ever - and has already hit November target. CEO Middle East crossed the $100k marked, helped by the huge success of the first ever CEO Middle East Awards. Revenues across just eight titles topped $1 million in October. Well done to all the sales and editorial teams.
Several new projects, launches and events are due to be announced shortly.New arrivals: Fadi Tayyoun (business development director); Walid Zok (commercial director); Lisa Hodge (editor, First Class)
Promotions: Anil Bhoyrul (editorial director); Diana Milne (group editor); James Bennett (group editor)ITP Customer Publishing ITP Customer Publishing closed down the 3rd quarter with a couple of new records - the Gitex Catalogue hit its highest ever revenue, ably managed by Josephine D'sa and some key performers from ITP Business. The catalogue, the flagship show catalogue in ITP Customer's portfolio, also exceeded the previous high standards of last year and was warmly received by all, so hats off to Catalogues Editor Emma Milner who ably and capably managed the gargantuan task, with Hala El Khoury performing similar feats with her Arabic team. Special mentions in dispatches to Matt Wade and David Wesley.
Etihad hit its highest ever revenue on its September issue, the title going from strength to strength under Stephan van der Merwe and the talented editorship of Kathryn Clark, Hala El Khoury, Jessica Gliddon and Zeina Eid, with help from Fatima El Homsi. Etihad Inflight also welcomes Jan Stoop as its new designer. Jan has already settled in well and has shown himself to be a safe and dependable pair of hands. The Etihad team also welcomes Nora Elias , who will be working on the Entertainment Guides alongside her core role as the English language editor of the newly acquired Rotana Hotels magazine. Nora is busy planning the first issue of the magazine, due out in January.
ITP's catalogue division welcomes Rolan Huisamen as its Sales Manager. Rolan started with the bit between his teeth and hasn't looked back, with both Motor Show products sailing over target.
Visitor magazine has turned a corner, due to a great re-design, a new and increased audit and some excellent USPs, including display at out-bound airport terminals in the UK. Visitor magazine approaches 2008 looking fresh and full of potential.
Congratulations to Zoe Moleshead and Tracey Markham on their recent engagementsSpectrum Digital Print Solutions Retail
October saw the start of the season as financial organizations at DIFC seemed to spring back into life after a some what extended summer lull and most of our core clients were back with last minute urgent print requirements all of which were handled brilliantly by the Spectrum production team, my thanks to everyone for keeping up with all the customers demands.External sales
New wins for this month for VDP are Toshiba and Talent brokers, Personalised Direct Mail and Invitations respectively .Results coming back to us from early adopt clients show a strong financial case for VDP and repeat business should undoubtedly follow together with copy cat initiatives.Internal Vacancies Time Out vacancies
Sub editor contact chris.anderson@itp.com
Guides writer contact chris.anderson@itp.com
Picture editor contact david.donaghy@itp.comNew Staff - October 07 Katy Morrison - Group Designer, Lifestyle
Katy joins ITP from the UK where she worked for the Kent Messenger Group. She has also worked in Calgary, Canada for GES Canada.Martin Staniszewski - Designer, ITP Business
Martin also joins ITP from the UK where he worked as a Graphic Designer for Publications UK.Walid Zok - Commercial Director, ITP Executive
Walid previously worked for CPI in Dubai as a Sales & Marketing Director.Joel Martin - Sales Manager, ITP Business
Joel previously worked for Laird Recruitment in the UK as a Senior Recruitment Consultant.Lucy Taylor - Assistant Editor, Hotelier
Lucy joins ITP from Bristol in the UK where she worked as a Features Writer for South West News Service.Matthew Ross - Sub-Editor, Construction Week
Matthew previously worked for Trinity Mirror Newspapers in Oldham, UK as a Sports Sub-Editor.Louise Oakley - Editor, Leisure ITP Business
Louise previously worked as Deputy Editor for Health Club Manager in the UKFadi Tayyoun - Business Development Director, Executive
Fadi originates from Jordan and joins ITP after undertaking several projects including branding for Questor Holding in France and event management for the Elite International Model Look in Dubai.Aleem Chatur - Sales Manager, Ahlan Live
Aleem previously worked for Intertrust Corporate Group in Dubai as a Special Projects Director. He has also worked as an Exhibition Sales Executive for Ithaca Media in London.Tibor Fuchsel - Sales Executive, Logistics ME
Tibor originates from Hungary but joins ITP from Positive Publications in Norwich UK where he worked as a Sales Executive for Eastern Europe and the Middle East.Nora Elias - Editor, Rotana
Nora joins ITP from the UK where she worked as a Content Producer for Baptie Online.Jessica Trad - Junior Designer, Arabian Business
Jessica originates from Lebanon but has been freelancing in Dubai with Salon Charles and NDU Sports amongst others.Angela Ravi - Designer, ITP Business
Angela previously worked as a Consultant Graphic Designer at Sunray Design, a design studio based in Chennai, India.Chris Kelly - Publisher, Women’s Lifestyle
Chris joins ITP from the UK where he worked as Publisher for IPC Media on magazines including Living, Beautiful Homes, Ideal Home.Kirsty Melia - Advertisement Manager, Time Out
Kirsty previously worked as Media Sales Manager for Insignia Advertising / Publishing.Ahmed Shareef - Editor, Arabianbusiness.com (Arabic)
Ahmed joins ITP from Dabbagh Information Technology (DIT) where he was employed as Technology Unit Managing Editor.Ahmad-Ziad Bashour - Sales Manager, Arabianbusiness.com
Ahmad previously worked as a Manager for Browsarabia UAE, a regional e-marketing & SMS company.Leigh Walsh - Production Co-ordinator
Leigh joins ITP from Northern Ireland where he worked as a Graphic Designer for Ireland’s Homes Interiors and Living Magazine.Julian Pletts - Editorial Assistant, Channel ME
Julian joins ITP from Lancashire where he has been studying Masters in Magazine Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire.Zeina Sukkarieh - Sales Manager, L’Officiel Hommes
Zeina has previously worked as a Account executive for Rotana Media Services RMS Dubai.Ratna Kiran Badireddi - Telemarketing Manager, Construction Week Directory
Ratna originates from India where she has previously worked as a Manager with GETIT Infomediary Ltd.Yasmin Mohamed - Assistant Credit Manager, Credit Control
Yasmin has previously worked as a Personal Assistant, Credit Control for UK Land Investments International.Bassel Al Daoudi - Web Developer, ITP Digital
Bassel originates from Syria where he has previously worked as a Software Developer.Welcome back!
Natasha Pendleton - Advertising Director, ITP Consumer© 2007 ITP
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