Yesterday Rupert Murdoch proudly tweeted that the first
edition of his new Sun on Sunday had sold 3m copies.
How many of those purchases will turn out to be driven
by curiosity, or a desire to have a copy of the first of something, will
become evident once the settle down sales figure becomes established.
It is with trepidation that I once again venture into
the tricky environs of writing about my employer.
Worse, this particular piece also makes reference to
London 2012 and LOCOG, and as anyone involved in Olympics-related contracts
knows, this stuff is fraught with permissions about what can and can’t be said.
Mostly the latter.
During yesterday afternoon’s inevitable low blood sugar moment I was surveying the contents of the vending
machine here at PrintWeek Towers and noticed something that points to an apparently growing trend.
Gosh – ‘Print plc
in share price leap, shock’.
Communisis’ share
price has increased by a third over the past ten days. The shares were trading
at a heady 39p at the time of typing, and 123,000 shares had changed hands this
morning. To put that into context, the 52 week low is 18.75p.
I spotted the hashtag #loveyourlocalpaper on Twitter this morning, it seems to be gaining a
bit of momentum although it’s yet to trend above Harry Potter and the Deathly Vagina (don’t ask).
A quick tip of the hat must go to IPC Media, which in the space of just
over a week has put two new print products of note onto the newsstands.
A
joy-replenishing jaunt to the official unveiling of Duplo International’s new
UK HQ yesterday provided plenty of food for thought.
It’s always uplifting
to see a successful, growing company reinvesting, and managing
to do so despite dealing with the sort of travails that are affecting SMEs up
and down the country.
Valentine’s Day.
Hopefully a bumper period for people involved in various aspects of print
production.
Cards, obviously.
And an increasing amount of personalised ones, although these are likely to be
a straight replacement rather than an additional print piece. That said, a personalised card is more likely to be produced locally than shipped in a container from the Far East.
Facebook has been all over the news of late as
excitement mounts about its imminent flotation.
The coverage reminded me that a tip of the hat is
due to the team at Moo, for successfully securing a groundbreaking deal with the
social media giant for Moo’s new Facebook Cards offering.
Britain. Home to the
world’s largest commercial security printer but not, it seems, any printers
capable of printing the tickets for London 2012. How on earth did that happen?
Oh dear, oh dear.
News that the Olympic tickets will be printed by American company Weldon,
Williams & Lick is a PR disaster for London 2012 organiser LOCOG. When
it comes to promo items for the upcoming games that could best be described as
‘plastic tat’, I can grudgingly accept that this sort of thing will inevitably
be sourced from the Far East. But high-value
and high-profile items such as the tickets – THE BLOODY TICKETS – are a
different matter altogether.
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