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Capital Ideas Financial Publishing
(CIFP) was established in 2008 to provide quality information to UK corporates
and private investors alike.
The company's expanding portfolio of subscription
newsletters, magazines, directories and online databases provides customers
with accurate, timely and actionable information they can use on a daily
basis; be it for stock market investment purposes, corporate due diligence,
sales & marketing or FSA-regulated financial markets compliance.
CIFP's core products are well-established in their
respective markets, going back as far as 1982. Only their ownership
is new. We aim to cement and build on these hard-earned market positions,
and exploit the synergies created in bringing together / uniting under
one corporate brand such respected individual titles.
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Note: Please refer all media enquiries to our Press Office as follows:
Paul Quade
City Road Communications
0207 248 8010
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BID FOR THE OBSERVER NEWSPAPER
14 AUGUST 2009
FROM CITY AM
Friday, 14th August 2009
EXCLUSIVE
VICTORIA BATES
INVESTMENT boutique Capital Ideas has launched an audacious bid to buy
the embattled Observer newspaper from Guardian Media Group (GMG) for
a nominal sum, with a view to turning the brand into a weekly news magazine
and website.
In the first of what is sure to be a number of bids to emerge for the
newspaper, Capital Ideas’ publishing division said it had sent a preliminary
letter containing details of the proposal.
“We are making the first overtures at the moment but we are quite serious
about it,” said consultant Renwick Haddow. “We will be talking to them.”
The group, which owns the Compliance Monthly and Investing for Growth
trade titles, said it would publish a weekend news magazine under the
Observer brand, in the style of The Week.
However, it plans to slim down the paper’s current staff considerably
if any deal goes ahead.
GMG said it had not yet received the letter, but hinted that any forthcoming
offer would be unwelcome, saying: “It is not surprising, in the light
of recent media coverage, that opportunistic and unsolicited approaches
of this nature might be made.”
Guardian Media Group will next month publish the results of a strategic
company review, which may include closing The Observer or turning it
into a weekly news publication.
THE TIMES
Help arrives for The Observer from an unlikely quarter.
While The
Guardian people consider closing the country’s oldest Sunday paper
to scale back some of the losses incurred on its internet operation,
an AIM-quoted publisher has offered to buy the title.
The publishing
side of Capital Ideas, which owns Company REFS and The Corporate Register,
has written to Derek Gannon, chief operating officer at Guardian News & Media.
Renwick Haddow, in charge of finding new business opportunities at Capital,
offers to buy the paper for a peppercorn payment, the vendor, he adds
drily, to assume the first year’s losses, or suggests the purchase of
The Observer’s intellectual property rights and assets.
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