18 August 2008 | Edited by Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
More cheap papers; Disney camp rocks; more.
18 August 2008 | Noelle Waugh | The Australian Financial Review
Marketing executives are confident the online advertising market will post solid growth in the next year as the internet steals ad dollars away from "old" media.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
McDonald's Australia has generated strong sales in the past five years with new products such as Salads Plus and Deli Choices.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
For most of the year, magazine industry executives have been muttering about how tough their lives have become
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
Pay television operator Foxtel is counting on a low-priced version of the iQ digital video recorder it will introduce in October to help cut its subscriber "churn rate".
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
The plan by Michael Hannan's Independent Print Media Group to set up a new printing centre in Sydney will not add more capacity to the overcrowded $1.5 billion heat-set, web offset printing industry, according to rival printer PMP's chief executive, Brian Evans.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
Sales are up, market share is increasing and this fast-food service is just loving it, writes Neil Shoebridge.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
The content-sharing deal that Paul Ramsay's Prime Media Group and Yahoo!7 announced earlier this month will accelerate the former's internet strategy and its plan to launch up to 200 websites aimed at local communities.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
The United States retail marketing services company Crossmark has boosted its Australian operation by buying Sydney-based The Marketing Department for an undisclosed sum.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
The weak sales posted by many consumer magazines this year have not stopped PBL Media's ACP Magazines division from predicting that the first issue of its new magazine, Good Food, would sell more than 90,000 copies and that the newcomer would reach its long-term sales target of 80,000 copies a month.
18 August 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review
High petrol prices and dwindling consumer confidence are starting to squeeze the top end of the retailing sector, as the pain the sellers of luxury boats and cars have experienced in recent months starts to spread to retailers of other luxury goods.