30.12.02
Galleon
wins new business from Sunday Times and Pearson
Galleon
has won the subscriptions business for the Sunday TimesÂ’ new
stand-alone monthly travel magazine.
As well as this prestigious new contract, the Sittingbourne-based
subscriptions fulfilment company this year also won the subscriptions
business for Hello! magazine and Private Eye. As well as the magazine
itself, Galleon handles Private EyeÂ’s merchandise and during
November sold more than £30,000 worth of mugs, Christmas cards,
annuals and other books via its innovative electronic subscriptions
system, subscribeONLINE. Overall, the system handled more than £400,000
worth of transactions in the run-up to Christmas.
The
Sunday TimesÂ’ new stand-alone glossy title Travel - a brand
extension for the Sunday TimesÂ’ Travel section - will be published
by River and is due to launch in January.
Says Galleon's Managing Director Mandy Thwaites: "We are delighted
to have won this prestigious contract. New clients are attracted
by our database management capabilities and electronic subscriptions
system and 2003 will see us embrace new technology still further,
for example with a unique SMS system enabling publishers to use
their mobile phones to keep track of how many live subscriptions
they have.”
Notes to Editors:
Fulfilment
house Galleon is wholly owned by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide and provides subscription,
distribution, customer support and networking solutions for delivery
of media on behalf of publishers. Clients include
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Worldwide's magazine and video business, IDG Media, and over 20
other publishing and direct to consumer companies.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, does not use
licence fee income for its activities and re-invests in public service
programming. In 2001/2002 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide returned £106 million
to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
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