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February 17th 2010
Magazines Published by “Color Press Group” Leaders in Six Categories!
Last week Ipsos Strategic Marketing publicized overall data concerning readership popularity of daily newspapers and magazines in Serbia throughout 2009. The research method used is CATI: Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing. Households owning a telephone defined the population. Sample – national representative sample within 12-65 age group on 1.850.000 telephone numbers, whereas participation of (fixed) telephones in the entire population is – approximately 84%. On a weekly basis, around 1.500 people were interviewed, 6.000 per month, and around 72.000 annually. According to these data, “Blic” is the most read daily newspaper in Serbia, its rating being 14.6%, “Novosti” is on the second place with 9.0%, followed by “Kurir” with 7.2% and “Press” read by 6.6%. In terms of magazines, Strategic Marketing divided them in categories.
By a landslide, the greatest number on leader positions in these categories, as high as six, is hold by magazines belonging to “Color Press Group”: category “Women’s glossy magazines” – JOY with rating of 2.6%; category “Tabloids and music magazines” – “Svet” with rating of 7.1%; then “Men’s magazines” – CKM with 2.6%; “Healthy life magazines” – “Lepota i zdravlje” with 7.4%; “Children’s and teenage magazines” – “Bravo” with 5.8%, while in a category “Children and mothers” the leader is “Moja beba” magazine with 2.3%. Magazines published by “Ringier” are leaders in two categories: “Women’s magazines” – “Blic žena” with 15.6% and “Politics and economics” – “Nin” with 0.8%. “Adria Media Srbija” also holds leader positions in two magazine categories – in a category “House, furniture, garden” – “Moja lepa bašta” with 3.1%, and in “Travels, culture, science” division – “National Geographic” with 1.3%. Other magazine publishers have either one or not a single leader within categories. All magazines taken overall, among eight the most read ones (with rating over 4%), “Color Press Group” has as many as four – “Lepota i zdravlje” 7.4%, “Svet” 7.1%, “Bravo” 5.8%, “Scandal” 5.7%, while the others are “Ringier” (“Blic žena” 15.6%), “Europapress” (“Glorija” 4.4%), “Delicious plus” (“Hrana i vino” 6.2%) and “Sat Media Group” (“Sat plus” 4,4%).
February 9th 2010
First signs of the advertising market recovery
According to the Print Adexa Strategic Marketing`s data for January 2010, advertising market in Serbia is close to recovery. Compared to the data from the same month of the previous year, several eminent publishers in Serbia have increased their income from advertising. "Ringier" has increased its income from 65 million RSD (January 2009) to 72 million RSD (January 2010) while "Color Press Group" is the only publisher that increased its income in both the previous and this year as well. When compared to the previous year`s income of 38 million, “Color Press Group” has made a profit of 42 million in January 2010.
The growth is also present in companies such as "Adria Media Srbija" and "Europaress" while the incomes of other companies – publishers like: "Novosti", "Politika NM", "Press PG", "Kurir Info", "Attica Media", "Pravda Press", "Dan" and "Media Max" are still decreasing like in the previous year.
January 22th 2010
Portal www.lepotaizdravlje.rs the first one in category “Health“!
According to the rating analysis that is regularly done by www.alexa.com (data for Serbia can be found on: www.alexa-rs.com), portal www.lepotizdravlje.rs has occupied the first place on a list in category “Health” in less than a year of its existance. Website www.stetoskop.info has been awarded the second place, while www.herbateka.eu has been awarded the third one. Other places on the list have been occupied by: www.doktor.rs, www.vakcinacijaprotivgripa.rs,
www.porodicnilekar.net, www.farmakon.rs and www.primarna-medicina.com.
In this way, the portal has only confirmed the success of the hardcopy of magazine “Lepota i zdravlje” that has been one of the most popular magazines with highest the highest circulation in Serbia for 7 years now with special editions in all six republics of ex-Yugoslavia.
January 11th 2010
“Svet” among 25 Most Sought After Notions on the Serbian Internet!
In an issue dated January 6th, daily newspaper “Danas” published a list of 25 most sought after notions on the Serbian Internet throughout the previous year. As you can guess, the top three are: Facebook, Google and Sex, and the same situation is probably present in majority of countries around the world.
In terms of names of media, in 2009, the greatest number of visitors typed as search words the notions: “Blic” (4.), “Press” (14.) and “Svet” (22.).
December 25th 2009
The rating of magazine “Hello” higher than the rating of magazine "Story"
For the first time since 2007, which is the year when magazine “Hello” was published in Serbia for the first time, magazine “Hello” has received higher rating than magazine “Story”, which has been present on the market since 2005.
According to “Strategic Marketing” data for the period from December, 14th to December, 20th 2009, the following celebrity magazines received the ratings as listed below:
- Magazine “Svet” – 352 557 readers,
- Magazine “Scandal” – 328 625 readers,
- Magazine “Gloria” – 184 305 readers,
- Magazine “Hello” – 134 683 readers,
- Magazine “Story” – 128 114 readers and
- Magazine “Plus” – 119 244 readers.
Out of six weekly magazines published in Serbia, “Color Press Group” publishes three which occupy the first (magazine “Svet”), the second (magazine “Scandal”) and the fourth (magazine “Hello”) position on the list.
December 2th 2009
First Edition of „The Economist“ in Serbia
„Color Press Group“ in collaboration with the British magazine „The Economist“, is preparing a special licensed edition „The World in 2010“ for the Serbian market.
So far, this magazine has been published in twenty-eight countries worldwide, and the Serbian edition will be twenty-ninth. A publication regarding 2009 had an overall circulation of 1.105.094 copies, together with over 3 million readers. Twenty-seven percent of readers are board directors, whereas forty-four percent are senior managers. Detailed data could be found in an enclosed presentation.
For „The Economist: The world u 2010“ articles are contributed by:
- Russian President - Dmitry Medvedev,
- South African President Jacob Zuma
- Chairman and CEO of the company „Yahoo“ - Carol Bartz,
- Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund - Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
- Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso
and many other experts in economics and politics, as well as leaders from around the world
. „The Economist: The World in 2010“ will appear on newsstands on December 14th 2009, and will be on sale for three months. The magazine’s circulation is 30.000 copies (128 pages, warm binding, 150 dinars) out of which 29.000 will be distributed through a sale network, while 1.000 will be sent to addresses of managers of the greatest Serbian companies.
December 1th 2009
A Giant Leap of Rating of the Web Portal www.lepotaizdravlje.rs
The first women’s lifestyle Web portal www.lepotaizdravlje.rs this week managed to climb onto the eighty-fifth position of the Internet list of Web sites in Serbian, according to ratings publicized by
www.alexa-rs.com. So far, this is the biggest increase indicating how read our portal is, because it reached 85.place out of jumping from 102.position.
In addition to regular sections connected to health issues, care, fashion and other topics of interest to our readers, this rise in rating of the L&Z portal is also due to applying and voting at the contest to choose the Face of the “Lepota i zdravlje” magazine, which is organized by “Color Press Group” in collaboration with Fashion TV SEE in all six former Yugoslav countries.
November 9th 2009
CPG’s Representatives Attended WMM in Dubai
International fair of licences, Worldwide Magazine Marketplace, organized by FIPP, this year was held in a hotel “Jumeirah Beach” in Dubai. “Color Press Group” at WMM was represented by Robert Čoban and Miroslav Vajda, who attended a number of meetings with current as well as with future licensing partners in Dubai.
Panel-attendants agreed on many lectures that in 2010 the world’s media industry would begin to leave the crisis – investments in advertising in magazines are again on the rise in Europe and in the USA, where they have been dropping for over a year. On the other hand, there is belief that after the end of the crisis, media scene will no longer be the same, because aggressive expansion of the Internet on the account of print editions has completely altered the structure of this industry.
One attendant expressed an interesting comparison: “We, employed at print media, today are reminiscent of monks in monasteries who were copying the books by hand at a moment when Gutenberg appeared. They just waved a hand and said it was an ephemeral thing. By using his printing press, Gutenberg quickly eliminated copying by hand, and in order to survive, the monks had to turn to other endeavors – to produce cheese, wine, brandy… It is time we started to produce cheese!”, half jokingly, half seriously, said Patrick Moreau, representative of the French company “Figaro”.
October 29th 2009
"Svet" and "Ubavina i zdravje" Still on Leading Positions in Macedonia
In September, researches conducted by the "Strategic marketing & media research" agency showed that our company’s publications were still holding the leading positions among the most-read magazines in Macedonia. Magazines "Svet" and "Ubavina i zdravje" are on the top of the list, which is reflected in the ratings: 2,89% and 2,70%.
By presenting actual news from the showbiz world and latest trends in the beauty and health department, editorial crews of these two publications will continue their efforts to justify the confidence of readership audience in Macedonia, thus retaining their leading positions.
October 26th 2009
Record Visits on Web Portals svet.rs and lepotaizdravlje.rs
During a week between October 16th and October 22nd 2009, absolute records were registered concerning the number of visits and number of viewed pages on a showbiz Web portal www.svet.rs. Tuesday, October 20th, was the day when the record was broken, because 37.567 visits were registered, as well as 249.301 viewed pages.
Alongside regular following of actual happenings in Serbian reality shows – “Big Brother”, “The Farm” and “Survivor”, this leap in the number of visits is beyond doubt also due to exclusive paparazzo photographs of Svetlana Ražnatović and her new boyfriend Vladimir Cvetković, which were exclusively published by the Web portal www.svet.rs on that day.
Similar tendencies are evident by the Web portal www.lepotaizdravlje.rs, because a record in the number of visits was registered on October 22nd, namely 7.908 visitors and 29.648 viewed pages.
October 16th 2009
JOY-face is being sought after, to become a new star of the fashion editorial!
Mutual activity of the magazine “Joy” and Erste Bank, with the support of shopping malls Delta City, Bazar, Ušće and Mercator
The magazine “Joy” has provided an opportunity for all its readers to appear in their favourite magazine, in one of its fashion editorials, as well as to win excellent prizes and sign a contract with a fashion agency “Click”! Under professional guidance of leading stylists, visage masters and hairdressers, our finalists will pose in front of cameras of top class fashion photographers, while the best photographs will be published.
Sponsor of the money prize ERSTE BANK provides a reward for the winner and two finalists, namely 1.000, 500 and 300 Euros! Coupons for applying to the contest have been published in the latest issue of JOY, whereas applications (even without coupons) could be submitted to one of the numerous JOY stands situated at the following locations: SHOPPING MALL DELTA CITY in Belgrade, Bazar in Novi Sad, SHOPPING CENTER UŠĆE in Belgrade and TC Mercator in Novi S
October 13th 2009
In September, the only ones with a rise in advertising income were “CPG”, “EPH” and “24 sata”!
source: SMMRI PrintAdex difference for IX 2008. / IX 2009.
Although the first signs of leaving the recession are now emerging in the field of media industry in Europe and in the USA, in our country most publishers are still facing worse results in comparison with the corresponding period last year. According to data by “Strategic Marketing” (SMMI Print Adex), this September only three publishers did register a rise in advertising income, comparing with the corresponding month last year.
These are namely: “24 sata” (+21.23%), “Color Press Group” (+19.89%) and “Europapress” (+16.92%). All other publishers, on the first ten positions in Serbia, registered a fall in advertising income in comparison with September 2008. The fall is drastic with companies “Kurir info” (-34.68%), “Press Publishing Group” (-32.24%), and “Adria Media Serbia” (-24.12%).
These data are even more drastic concerning the fact that they are expressed in Dinars, taking into account that last September the exchange rate between Dinar and Euro was 80, whereas this year it is 93 (-16%).
September 21th 2009
“Svet” and “Ubavina i zdravlje” Are Still the Most Read Magazines in Macedonia!
According to researches conducted in August by the “Strategic Marketing & Media Research” marketing agency, in Macedonia the most read publications are still “Svet” and “Ubavina i zdravlje”. The tabloid “Svet”, which follows a showbiz scene in the entire region, for the sixth consecutive year registers the greatest number of readers in this country.
Furthermore, according to results of this research, in competition of all weekly and monthly magazines in Macedonia, the second place is taken by another publication of ours, the women’s lifestyle magazine “Ubavina i zdravlje”.
When compared to the entire population, the rating of the most read tabloid, “Svet”, is 4.5%, whereas the second-placed “Ubavina i zdravlje” registers overall rating of 3.15%. Behind them are magazines “Hrana i vino” with 2.15% and “Fokus” with 2.05%.
September 21th 2009
In Terms of Rating, "Hello!” Surpassed "Puls" and Came Close to the Magazine "Story"!
According to the latest data by "Strategic Marketing", our weekly magazine "Hello!" was read by 145.238 Serbian citizens during the week as of September 7th until September 13th, which marks this magazine’s record since it was launched on our market.
During the aforementioned week, "Hello!" surpassed the magazine "Puls" (140.141 readers), coming close to its nearest competitor, the magazine "Story" (194.313 readers).
The other two celebrity weeklies published by the company "Color Press Group" - "Svet" (357.482 readers) and "Scandal" (316.146 readers) are still holding the first and second position respectively, while the magazine "Gloria" is on the third place (228.449 readers).
September 14th 2009
"Svet", "Scandal" and "Hello!" Have Reached New Records in Terms of Sales and Rating!
Three celebrity magazines published by Color Press Group - "Svet", "Scandal" and "Hello!" over the past month reached new records in terms of sales and rating. According to researches conducted by "Strategic Marketing", during August "Svet" had 412.752 readers on average among the Serbian citizens between the age of 12 and 65, rating of the magazine "Scandal" was 368.638, whereas that of "Hello!" was 93.427 readers.
Overall rating of all three celebrity magazines published by CPG was 875.049, while overall rating of the remaining three celebrity magazines present on the Serbian market ("Gloria": 265.104, "Story": 205.758 and "Puls": 122.593) was 583.455.
The rating data follow excellent data from the distribution of press, and hence the latest issues of CPG’s celebrity magazines have reached records in sales: "Svet" issue number 635 was sold in 90.366 copies, "Scandal" issue number 274 - 66.263 copies and "Hello!" issue number 87 - 26.348 copies. It is implied that these data refer only to Serbia, keeping in mind that all three magazines have significant sales in the region, whereas "Svet" has separate editions for the diaspora, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and FYRO Macedonia.
Interesting is the fact that out of 6 magazines with the highest rating in August as many as four are published by CPG: "Lepota i zdravlje", "Svet", "Scandal" and "Bravo", while the remaining two are - "Blic žena" and "Hrana i vino".
August 13th 2009
CPG, EPH and “24 sata” the only ones with rise in July!
Source: SMMRI PrintAdex difference for VII 2008. / VII 2009.
During the previous month, decrease in advertising income compared to the corresponding month last year was continued. Out of twelve greatest publishers in Serbia, only CPG, EPH and “24 sata” registered rise in comparison with July last year, whereas all the others registered fall in advertising income. The largest decrease in terms of percentage is by Adria Media - 24%, Politika - 26%, Attica Media - 33% and Kurir Info - 28%.
Source: SMMRI PrintAdex for period 1. - 31.07.2009
“Taken individually, the greatest advertising income in the field of magazines this month as well was by “Gloria”, followed by “Blic zena”, “Joy”, “Story”, “Lepota i
zdravlje”, “Hello!”, “Svet”, “Grazia”, “Sat plus” and “Scandal”. Out of 10 magazines with the highest advertising income, 5 are published by CPG.”
July 29th 2009
Color Press Group on Wikipedia!
Wikipedia is a Web based multi lingual encyclopedia with various contents. The prefix “wiki” implies that the data concerning people and notions are gathered in collaboration with numerous volunteers, which means that most of the texts could be altered by anyone with Internet access and appropriate Web browsers.
To have your own Web page on the most famous Internet encyclopedia, taking the seventh place in terms of number of visits on the entire Internet, with over 60 million visits a month, is a sign of prestige, and the information concerning our company is available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Press_Group
July 20th 2009
Svet.rs - 16. mesto, lepotaizdravlje.rs - 95 mesto!
According to the Web Site alexa.com (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/svet.rs), the most read showbiz portal in Serbia and in the region - svet.rs, as of July 18th 2009 takes the sixteenth place among portals in Serbian worldwide, and still holds the first position among portals in Serbian dealing with entertainment and showbiz.
As a matter of fact, still ahead of us are media companies’ web sites: rts.rs, pressonline.rs, mtsmondo.com, kurir-info.rs, blic.rs and b92.net.
The lifestyle portal for women LEPOTAiZDRAVLJE.RS, which our company has launched within “Future Media”, a mutual firm with McCann Erickson PR, also registers continuous rise in the number of visits, and at the moment holds 97. position, which is a brilliant result after two and a half months since the beginning of work.
July 14th 2009
In June, “Color Press Group” was the only publisher with an increase in advertising income!
According to the data provided by “Strategic Marketing” in June 2009 – in comparison with the corresponding month last year – only the magazines published by “Color Press Group” experienced a rise in advertising income (+7,27%), while all the other big publishers of daily newspapers and magazines in Serbia faced the fall.
The greatest decrease in advertising income was registered at publishers of dailies "Novosti" (-25,88%), "Kurir" (-28,21%) and "Politika" (-39,64%).
When the data regarding the first half of 2009 are compared with the first six months of 2008, the results are similar, with the exception that the figures referring to advertising income are almost frightening: "Novosti" - 147 million dinars, "Politika" - 121 million, "Kurir Info" - 101 million, "Adria Media Srbija" - 66,5 million, "Ringier" - 66 million...
In this period as well, the rise in advertising income was registered only at "Color Press Group" (+ 70 million dinars). In an ambience where state aid to media and planned adoption of restrictive alternations to the Public Information Law are still missing, these data will only worsen the situation in the Serbian media industry.
July 7th 2009
”Hello!” has lowered its price
As of July 7th the magazine “Hello!” will have a nice surprise for its readers. “Hello!” celebrity magazine will be sold at a lower price, and instead of actual 80, it will cost 59 dinars.
We are still here with loads of exclusive interviews, photographs and news from the world of the rich and famous.
The magazine appears on newsstands every Tuesday throughout Serbia and Montenegro.
June 29th 2009
The portal SVET.RS has record number of visits!
The most read magazine in Serbia and the region, showbiz portal www.svet.rs last week broke all of its own records in the number of visits, gathering over 30.000 visits to the site a day. Only in the course of the last week (June 18th – June 24th) the visitors viewed as many as 1.101.391 pages, with average time of viewing the portal for whole seven minutes and fifteen seconds (Google Analitics).
According to the site alexa.com (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/svet.rs) the portal svet.rs is holding the eighteenth position among the portals in Serbian, in the entire world, and the first place in terms of portals in Serbian dealing with entertainment and showbiz themes.
The women’s lifestyle portal LEPOTAiZDRAVLJE.RS, which was launched by our company within the Future Media, mutual company with McCann Erickson PR, has also registered continuous rise in the number of visits, over the last two weeks reaching the position 135 from the previous position 177 among the sites in the Serbian language.
June 24th 2009
"SVET" has the widest circulation of all weeklies in Macedonia!
The Macedonian edition of the tabloid “Svet”, which follows happenings in lives and careers of all significant public figures from different fields (showbiz, television, movies, sports, journalism, presentations, modeling…) in the whole of former Yugoslavia, and of course, from Macedonia, still has the widest circulation and the greatest number of readers in this republic. Over the last two years, it has been printed in the Cyrillic letter, and surveys concerning the number of readers and sales of the Macedonian “Svet” have been conducted by the “Strategic Marketing & Media Research”, the agency in whose enclosed chart referring to May 2009 it is clearly shown that “Svet” is a magazine with the greatest circulation in Macedonia, leaving all the other weekly publications far behind.
In fact, “Svet” is read equally by men and women, between twenty and fifty-five years of age. With a success boost, the team around the Macedonian “Svet”, founded by the “Kolor-medija”, is preparing a huge birthday party near Skoplje in the beginning of July, where “Svet” ‘s 200th issue will be celebrated, as well as the eighth anniversary of this celebrity magazine in Macedonia.
June 11, 2009.
In comparison with the corresponding month last year, the decline in advertising revenues continued in May
In May 2009, all ten of the greatest publishers of daily newspapers and magazines in Serbia registered a drop in advertising revenues when compared to the corresponding month last year. The weakest fall was by the publishing houses “Ringier” (3%) and “Color Press Group” (2%), while the greatest one was registered at companies “Adria Media” (-27%), “Politika” (-38%) and “Kurir info” (-56%).
The fact that April and May, alongside November and December, are traditionally the months with the highest advertising income should be taken into account, bearing in mind that three “critical” summer months are ahead of us.
It remains to be seen whether the Serbian Government’s intervention to aid media in terms of the economic slowdown, which should be adopted in the upcoming two weeks (according to anticipations, among them is the temporary liberalization of a restriction regarding the advertising of alcoholic drinks), will help the Serbian media, which have been registering the decline in advertising revenues for six consecutive months already.
In other European countries and in the United States the situation is not brighter, because the drops in advertising revenues have also been registered there, while for the time being the only exception from this trend is in the developing countries, such as India, Brazil and China.
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May 25, 2009.
Overall Rating of the CPG’s Editions for the First Time Has Crossed the 3-Million Line!
According to the “Strategic Marketing” March survey, some of the magazines issued by the “Color Press Group” were read by 3.038.689 Serbian citizens between twelve and sixty-five years of age.
Furthermore, this is the first time since the SMMRI started conducting researches of how popular among the readers the print media in Serbia are, that our company has crossed the “magic line” of three million readers. This rise in the overall rating has been supported by joining the weekly “Scandal” to the CPG’s edition portfolio, as well as by the rise in circulation and popularity among the reading public of the magazine “Lepota i Zdravlje”, following the price drop from 120 to 99 dinars.
This rating shows that the CPG’s editions are more popular than overall ratings of magazines published by companies which take the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth place.
May 20, 2009.
"Future Media" join venture of "Color Press Group" and "McCann Ericson PR", has been presented to the public
Today, at the press conference, in front of many media representatives, Color Press Group, the leading magazine publisher in the region and McCann Erickson Public Relations, the greatest specialized agency for business communications, represented their future joint projects.
Namely, these two companies have decided to unite their potentials and found a new company, Future Media d.o.o, whose main purpose will be to find new tools and communication channels in corporate and internet publishing.
MA Borislav Miljanovic, the manager of McCann Erickson Public Relations, who said that this is the right time for the company in which he is a manager, to get actively involved in online media publishing. “This leading agency for communications has recognized the importance of the Internet as the electronic medium, so two years ago, it was the first and the only agency that founded an independent sector which exclusively deals with the application of the Internet in public relations”, Miljanovic said.
Robert Coban, director of Color Press Group also expressed great delight with the partnership in Future Media. “As the greatest magazine publisher in the country and in the region, Color Press Group intends to use its long-lasting experience in publishing to provide the services of the greatest quality in the domain of corporate publishing as well.
Also, we wish to take a step into the world of the new media – the media of the future and the Internet is definitely one of them, because once the economic crisis is over, media industry will never be the same again”, Coban said.
Apart from the abovementioned, the conference was attended by Milica Milic, director of corporate communications in Color Press Group, Sreten Radovic, director of Color Media Universal, Goran Radulovic, advertising director of Color Press Group. The directors of the newly founded company, Tamara Bartos and Miloje Sekulic also presented themselves. Miloje Sekulic, in charge of the Internet in this company, presented the first project of Future media, portal entitled www.lepotaizdravlje.rs, while Dragana Cosic, a journalist from Studio B was excellent as the moderator of the conference.
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May 14, 2009.
Color Press Group – Income from advetising rose by 39% compared to the same month last year!
Altough a rise in income from advertising has been recorded in the last two months in Serbian print media compared to the beginning of the year, however, when the data are compared to the same period in 2008, a drop in income is still recorded at the level of the whole publishing industry.
Source: SMMRI - PrintAdex, april 2008. / april 2009.
According to the data of Strategic Marketing, only three out of 12 greatest publishers in Serbia have recorded a rise in income from advertising (CPG +39%, Media Max +19% and EMG +1%). Europapress has recorded an income equal to last year's (47 million dinars), while other eight companies recorded a drop ranging from 11% (as in the case of „Ringier“ and „24 sata“) up to 57% as in the case of „Kurir info“ company.
May 11, 2009
37th FIPP Congress in London
Last week, 37th FIPP congress was held in London (www.fipplondon09.com), international association of magazine publishers which gathers all the biggest publishers of periodical press in the world. According to the most participants, this has certainly been one of the best organized FIPP congresses so far, and the venue, impressive Old Billingsgate, which used to be a fish market during the 18th century, was swarming with delegates from all the continents, more than 1,000 of them. Jonathan Newhouse, president of Conde Nast company (Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Vanity Fair... ), Maurice Levy, president of Publicis Group, Matt Brittin from Google UK, Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic and many others were distinguished names among lecturers and panelists. As it was the case with the last two congresses, in New York in 2005 and in Beijing 2007, Serbia was represented by Robert Coban, the president of Color Press Group. The Congress was also attended by the representatives of Adria Media – Peter van Kol, Tomas Drozg and Bernd Rademann, as well as Stipe Oreskovic from EPH in Zagreb. The main topic of the Congress was, of course, dramatic economic crisis which affected publishing industry worldwide. The general estimate is that nothing will ever be the same after the recession and that numerous „traditional media“ will have to adjust significantly to the new habits of their consumers and to transfer a significant amount of content to the new platforms such as the Internet and mobile phones. Congress opening was held at Kensington Palace, one of the castles of the British Royal family, where Queen Victoria used to live, but it is best known as the last home of Princess Diana. The closing night of the congress was especially impressive – a spectacular party, sponsored by DHL, was organized at Saatchi Gallery in London Chelsea. The next FIPP congress will be held in 2011 in New Delhi, India.
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Saatchi Gallery - closing ceremony
Saatchi Gallery - closing ceremony
Saatchi Gallery - closing ceremony
Kensington Palace - opening reception
Kensington Palace - opening reception
Old Bilingsgate - FIPP kongres
May 4, 2009
“Ljepota i zdravlje”, issue of “Beauty and Health” for Montenegro, at all the newsstands
By the launch of “Ljepota i zdravlje”, Montenegro became the last of the six former Yugoslav republic with the issue of this magazine.
Vesna Cadjenovic, one of the most famous journalists in Montenegro is the editor-in-chief of this magazine. It will be sold at the price of EUR 1.00 and the initial circulation will be 15,000 copies. Apart from the local companies and mobile phone operators, this project was supported by the greatest international cosmetic brands such as L’Oreal and Nivea as advertisers.
Launch party for the Montenegrin issue of “Ljepota i Zdravlje” will be held at May 7, in hotel “Splendid” in Becici.
“Lepota i zdravlje” was launched in Serbia in January 2001, the issue for Slovenia (L&Z) and for Bosnia and Herzegovina (“Ljepota i zdravlje”) was started in 2007, issues for Macedonia (“Ubavina i zdravlje”) and Croatia (“Ljepota i zdravlje”) in 2008, and finally the Montenegrin issue (“Ljepota i zdravlje”) in 2009. As we have informed the public before, this magazine brand assumes the leading position at the market of female monthly magazines in Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is among the top five in Croatia and Slovenia.
April 28, 2009.
The launch of the first female lifestyle portal in Serbian, www.lepotaizdravlje.rs
After the great success of the regional showbiz portal www.svet.rs, which in less than half a year became one of the top 20 visited websites in Serbian, Color Press Group, in cooperation with McCann Erickson, started another similar project.
On Monday, April 27, at noon sharp, www.lepotaizdravlje.rs, the first female lifestyle portal was launched. Apart from the array of subjects from the areas which are tackled in the following magazines of CPG – “Lepota i zdravlje", "Moja
beba", "Beauty Expert", "BravaCasa", "JOY", "Lekovito bilje", "Dobra
hrana" and other – the new portal will include fresh news from all the areas of interest of a modern woman, such as horoscopes, videos, advice of the day, beauty and medical shop, chat with nutritionists, dermatologists and other experts.
This new portal was supported from the beginning by the prestigious domestic and international brands, such as L’Oreal, Max Factor, Banca Intesa, Collistar, Bvlgari, Jacobs, Persil, Dijamant.
www.lepotaizdravlje.rs is the first project of Future Media Co, founded by Color Press Group and McCann Erickson.
April 27, 2009.
At PRO PR congress, at hotel Splendid, Robert Coban held a presentation entitled “To Kill Citizen Kane” related to the crisis in the media
PRO PR congress was held Splendid hotel in Becici, in Montenegro, between April 22-25, and as it happens every year, it gathered marketing, PR and communication experts from the whole region. Robert Coban, the president of Color Press Group, was among the many speakers from the former Yugoslavian republics, but there were also speakers from Portugal, Romania and Bulgaria.
The presentation was entitled “To Kill Citizen Kane” (download PDF) related to the crisis in the media industry in the region, but also worldwide.
The majority of speakers at the congress pointed out that during the crisis, companies that wish to keep their share of the market, should continue their marketing and PR activities, because otherwise, after the recession, they may be suppressed by companies that continued to invest in this area.
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April 22, 2009.
Snezana Dakic-Mikic received Hello! magazine award for the best public personality styling
Each year, the end of Jacob's Fashion Selection is marked by traditional awards, this year this event was organized by Select fashion agency in Admiral hotel. Fashion journalists were the members of the fashion jury, and the winners were announced in front of a large number of guests.
Suzana Peric was given the award for the best visual identity fashion show, Mexx for the best brand collection, Zvonko Markovic for the best designer collection, AMC for the best collection by a fashion company, Marina Cvetkovic won the title of the best young designer, Bojana Vujadinovic and Veselin Doknic won the title of the best model, Vanja Josic became a new face in fashion, and Isidora Bjelica was given the award for the best fashion show, according to the readers of Blic. Magazine Hello! picked the authoress and the TV persona, Snezana Dakic-Mikic, as the public personality with the best styling. Cocktail was served after the official part of the programme, and the party continued until small hours in good spirits.
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April 23, 2009
HRH Crown Prince Aleksandar the 2nd and Princess Katarina visited CPG HQ
HRH Crown Prince Aleksandar II Karadjordjevic and Princess Katarina visited the headquarters of Color Press Group in Novi Sad last Thursday. The cooperation of Color Press Group and Royal Family goes back to the launch party of Hello! magazine which took place at the White Palace in July 2007 and ever since, our company has been regularly supporting all the humanitarian and other activities of the Court.
In conversation with Robert Coban, the president of CPG, Prince Aleksandar and Princess Katarina, showed their interest in the effects of financial crisis on media industry in Serbia as well in the plans and activities of CPG in the region.
During their visit which lasted considerably longer than the regular protocol entailed, both parties expressed satisfaction with their cooperation so far. Also, they have agreed on several joint actions and on the participation of Princess Katarina Foundation in CPG project entitled „Sunshine of Happiness“, which is dedicated to homes for handicapped chilren in Vojvodina
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March 29, 2009.
In only six months, portal www.svet.rs made it to the top 25 websites in Serbian!
In less than six months, portal www.svet.rs has become a leading regional showbiz portal and according to the statistics of www.alexa.com service, made it to the top 25 websites in Serbian (23rd position), leaving behind websites and portals that have existed for years, such as nadlanu.com (25), novosti.rs (26), vesti.rs (27), poznanici.com (28)…
In March 2009, portal svet.rs was visited by 710,000 people which equals 23,000 visitors daily, on average, while the number of opened pages rose to 4.5 million, and the average time spent on the website amounts to 8 minutes and 24 seconds. After achieving such a success with www.svet.rs portal, Color Press Group is preparing the launch of the female lifestyle portal www.lepotaizdravlje.rs which is planned for the end of April.
March 29, 2009
Color Press Group – a sponsor of Serbian Olympic Committee
On March 25, a media sponsorship contract, which will enable Color Press Group to support this important sporting institution, was signed on the premises of Serbian Olympic Committee.
Robert Coban, president of the leading magazine publishing company on the market and Vlade Divac, president of Serbian Olympic Committee signed the contract. Media sponsorship contract is valid through Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010. and Summer Olympic Games in London 2012. With this document, which was signed in front of numerous representatives of the media, Color Press Group made its contribution by promoting sports in many magazines it publishes. Prior to the signing of the contract, Robert Coban said: “Our company comprehends the importance of sports and sportsmen in the promotion of this country, and indeed, in certain moments in the past, only the sportsmen represented our country in the right way and were the only ones who contributed to its positive image in the world. This should not be forgotten, especially now, in the time of great economic crisis and reduction of all the costs, because especially in the following period, the state should not deny financial and organizational support to sportsmen. I hope that other companies will follow in our footsteps and make their contribution to sports in the next Olympic cycle.” Vlade Divac, president of Serbian Olympic Committee said afterwards: “By signing the sponsorship contract with Color Press Group Company, we have officially started creating a sponsorship pool for the Olympic Games in London in 2012. We highly appreciate any support, especially from the leading magazine publisher in the region.”
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March 25, 2009
In Macedonia CPG publications have the highest readership rates
Macedonian edition of the “Svet” tabloid, published by “Kolor medija Makedonija”, member of the “Color Press Group”, for the sixth successive year holds its place among the most read in the Republic of Macedonia, and in February 2009 it broke the record both in terms of sales and readership, therefore holding the first place with the rating of 5,513%. According to the latest research results (including all weekly and monthly magazines in Macedonia), on the second place there is also a publication by “Kolor medija Makedonija”- “Ubavina i zdravje” magazine, which was launched in May last year.
March 18, 2009
"Bravo ScreenFun" competition
Last Saturday, Delta City in Belgrade was a host to the tournament that gathered numerous fans of video games. At CRYPTON PLANET, Bravo ScreenFun magazine along with its sponsors CT COMPUTERS, EXTREME CC, EX ECENTAR organized a competition in FIFA 09 video game.
About a hundred boys of different ages fought ferociously to become the top three who received valuable awards. We came up with two best players by elimination in six rounds and they met in a final derby. After a longstanding fight, Vladimir Djedovic from Smederevo earned the title of the best player of FIFA and was awarded with the latest Sony PSP, and all the other contestants got the latest issue of Bravo ScreenFun with news from the world of video games as a consolation prize. Fanta, official drink of the tournament, also contributed to their having fun.
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March 6, 2009
Decline in advertising income in Serbian printed media continues in February
In comparison to February 2008, decline in advertising income was recorded in seven out of ten major newspaper and magazine publishers in Serbia. Advertising income has risen only in the following publishing houses: “Press Publishing Group” (+25%) and “Color Press Group” (+50%) while “Europapress” realized the same income as in the previous year.
March 2, 2009
Beauty&Health at the cost of 99 dinars has raised circulation for 50%!
Relaunch of Beauty&Health magazine, which costs 99 dinars instead of 120 since starting from February with its 96th issue, proved to be a huge success – the sold circulation is raised for 50% and it now amounts to 36.882 copies.
In comparison to January issue the sale has increased in 11.553 copies, which is a 45% rise, and in comparison to December issue the leap is even higher – 13.075 copies or 54%!!! In a few days, when ABC Serbia completes its official audit of this issue, all the advertisers and agencies will receive a valid certificate. The rise in circulation was followed by the rise in rating of Beauty&Health which amounts to 426.917 readers according to the research of Strategic Marketing agency, and this is a confirmation of a firm number one position among female glossy magazines in Serbia.
As a reminder, we note that Beauty&Health is a leading magazine on the markets of Macedonia (Ubavina i zdravje), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ljepota i zdravlje), Slovenia (L&Z), Croatia (Ljepota i zdravlje) and is among the top five highest rating monthly magazines. Since this spring, a regional issue of this magazine will appear in Montenegro, so Beauty&Health will cover all six republics of former Yugoslavia, thus confirming its status as the most successful magazine brand in the region.
March 2, 2009
On the newsstands across Montenegro:
"Hello! Montenegro", # 1
A regular monthly supplement for Hello! for the territory of Montenegro appeared today along with the basic issue of this magazine on the newsstands across the country.
Hello! Montenegro will initially be published as a supplement once a month, every last Thursday in the month, and starting from this summer, it is planned to be issued weekly. On the cover of the first issue is the legendary Montenegrin sportsman, Ivan Strugar, who was exclusively photographed for Hello! Montenegro with his daughter Ana. Hello! Montenegro will regularly follow the lives of Montenegrin showbiz stars and other events in public life and culture. The launch of the supplement of Hello! magazine for Montenegro has been supported by the leading advertisers in this country since the very first issue, such as mobile phone operators T-Mobile and Promonte.
February 26, 2009
From now on – a Slovenian issue of Bravo Girl and My Hair!
Starting from the next month, Color Press Group will launch Slovenian editions of Bravo Girl (published under licence by Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Hamburg) and My Hair (published under licence by Origin Publishing from London). Bravo Girl will be issued in Slovenian six times a year, whereas My Hair will initially be issued twice a year (in May and November).
Barbara Fisher will be the editor of My Hair magazine and her colleague, Barbara Banovic will be the editor of Bravo Girl. Along with the rest of our editions in Slovenia (Bravo, L&Z (Beauty&Health), BravaCasa, Lepe princeze and Romansa (Romance)), these two magazines will be published by Mediatop company from Maribor, JV Color Press Group and our partner in Slovenia, Videotop company
February 12, 2009
Only Color Press Group magazines recorded a rise in advertising income in comparison to January 2008!
According to the data which Strategic Marketing published early in february, there has been a sharp decline in advertising income in comparison to January 2008 recorded with virtually all the publishers of printed media in Serbia. Out of 12 biggest newspaper and magazine publishers in Serbia, only Color Press Group company had a recorded rise in advertising income, while in certain companies the recorded decline amounted to 72 %.
Gross advertising income in millions of dinars:
SMMRI - PrintAdex, january 2008 - january 2009
Total decline in advertising income with top 12 publishers in Serbia amounts to 147 million dinars, which is the average -33%, which will certainly cause major upheaval on Serbian media scene.
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February 9, 2009
The new website of our Croatian branch – www.mediatop.hr
Croatian publishing house “Mediatop” which was founded by Color Press Group and Slovenian company “Videotop”, launched its new internet website last week. (www.mediatop.hr)
This company is a successful publisher of the following magazines in Croatia: “Ljepota i zdravlje”, “Bravo”, “Brava Casa”, “FHM” and is among the top three magazine publishing houses in this republic.
February 3, 2009
The ambassador of Great Britain visited “Color Press Group” company
His Excellency, the ambassador of Great Britain in Belgrade, Mr Stephen Wordsworth visited the new premises of “Color Press Group” company in Novi Sad. Ambassador Wordsworth became interested in plans of CPG in Serbia and in the region, as well as in the ideas which our company offered as a solution to the current economic crisis in the domain of publishing.
Ambassador Wordsworth and Mr Dusan Mihajilovic from UK Embassy talked to Milica Milic, Miroslav Vajda and Robert Coban from “Color Press Group” about the current propositions on the new media laws in Serbia.
February 2, 2009
“Svet” beats records again – 455,883 readers
For years, weekly magazine “Svet” had been Serbian celebrity magazine with the highest circulation, and now it has beaten its own record once again.
The previous issue announcing the interview with Natasa Bekvalac on the cover was read, according to the research carried out by Strategic Marketing, by 455,833 Serbian citizens between 12 and 65 years of age.
Other celebrity weeklies, according to the same research, have significantly lower circulation: Gloria (270,655), Scandal! (275,183), Puls (179,163) and Story (168,078). All the data apply to the period of January 19 – 25, 2009.
January 19, 2009
“Ljepota i zdravlje“ (Beauty&Health) – the most widely read magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Ljepota i zdravlje“ magazine, published by „Color Media BiH“ company, the member of „Color Press Group“, is read regularly or occasionally by 23.83 % of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the absolute record concerning the circulation of any magazine ever since „Media Puls“ has been conducting its research.
„Lepota i zdravlje“ with a reach of 11 % is ranked first, ahead of „Zdravlje u kući“ (8.6 %) and „Azra“ (8.2 %), „Express“ (8.0 %) and „Svijet“ (5.8 %).
According to this research, „Ljepota i zdravlje“ is read mostly by women (87.9 %), whose age ranges from 20 to 29 (35.5 %) and from 30 to 39 (36 %).
This magazine has been the most widely read monthly magazine in Serbia for years, and since a few months ago in Macedonia as well, while it is ranked among the top five magazines in Croatia and Slovenia.
January 15, 2009
With rating of 112,311, Hello! magazine has beaten its own record!
After the issue featuring the twins of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was read by 109,809 Serbian citizens last August, Hello! magazine beat its own record once more at the beginning of 2009.
The rating of the first issue in January with Svetlana Raznatovic on the cover, according to the research of Strategic Marketing, was 112,311.
The research has been carried out on the sample of 1,503 citizens of Serbia without Kosovo, which represents 5,395,376 citizens between 12 and 65 years of age.
December 29, 2008
Bravacasa brakes all the records
According to the latest research of Strategic Marketing, Brava Casa magazine has achieved circulation of 212,460 readers, more than any Home&Garden magazine in Serbia ever.
According to the data of Strategic Marketing, December issue of Brava Casa published by Color Press Group has beaten all previous records by exceeding the “magic limit” of 200,000 readers, which has never been achieved by any Home&Garden magazine in Serbia. In December 2008, Brava Casa also made it to the top ten magazines with the highest circulation in Serbia. Out of 212,460 readers, two thirds (152,941) are women, and one third (59,519) are men.
The majority of readers lives in cities and has high school or university education. This is a particularly great success for Brava Casa, especially because two rival magazines have just appeared at the market – Casa Viva and Elle Décor.
December 24, 2008
“Ljepota i zdravlje” (Health and Beauty) – after only four issues made it to the list of top ten monthly magazines in Croatia!
“Ljepota i zdravlje”, which has been published in Croatia since July 2008 by Color Press Group, made it to the top ten list after only four issues. With 4.2 rating, according to the research of Media Puls agency in November, the only agency that regularly follows the rating of printed magazines in Croatia, “Ljepota i zdravlje” reached the ninth position, and thus came ahead of similar magazines which have been present at the Croatian market for a number of years, such as Grazia, JOY, The Best Shop, Elle, Sensa, Vita… “Ljepota i zdravlje” is mainly read by women, as is the case with markets in other countries (rating among female population reaches 7.2 %). According to this research, the most readers are between 20 and 39 of age, the most have an income ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 kunas and live in a city with a population of more than 100,000.
Reminder: “Ljepota i zdravlje” has been the top monthly magazine for the past seven years, and Macedonian issue “Ubavina i zdravje” reached the same status two months ago. “Ljepota i zdravlje” in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a top magazine among all the magazines in the country, while Slovenian edition “L&Z” also belongs to one of the top five monthly magazines.
With such rating in five out of six republics of ex-Yugoslavia (Montenegrin issue will be launched in spring), “Lepota i zdravlje” became the most widely read and the magazine with the highest circulation in the region.
December 19, 2008
600th issue of “Svet” magazine
With a fabulous party in “RICH” club in Belgrade, in the company of the greatest stars of Serbian show business, “Svet” magazine celebrated its 600th issue.
Many will remember December 17 for a fabulous party of “Svet” magazine organized in “RICH” club in Belgrade as a celebration of its 600th issue. The latest interactive edition of internet portal of “Svet” magazine was also launched on the occasion (www.svet.rs), and has attracted a record number of visitors in a short period of time.
Numerous guests were greeted by the editorial team of “Svet” magazine: Nikola Golubovic, Sasa Tosic i Vesna Milanovic as well as by the company president Robert Coban and the director of „Color Media Universal“, Sreten Radovic. The biggest stars in the region such as Svetlana Raznatovic, Jelena Karleusa, Seka Aleksic, as well as the guests from the region like „croatian soap opera king“ Roman Majetic , wished the editorial staff of „Svet“ to remain the most popular tabloid in the following period on the territory stretching „from Vardar to Triglav“ (the territory of former Yugoslavia).
Having wished guests good time on behalf of CPG, the director of corporate communications, Milica Milic, thanked all the readers and advertisers of this tabloid, with a special thanks to the celebrities which appear in „Svet“. After the official part of the programme, Darko Radovanovic took care of music, as well as the great atmosphere which improved with every new song. Good atmosphere attracted the guests, so the most popular singers took turns at the microphone, and the youngest singers broke the ice. The contestants of the popular „Operation Triumph“, who came to our party straight from the academy, started singing first, and were followed by Dado Polumenta, Indy, Goca Bozinovska, Mia, Neda Ukraden and many others. The editorial staff of „Svet“ blew the candles on a big birthday cake at midnight and thanked all the people who supported this weekly magazine in the last 17 years. At the same time, the visitors to the new internet portal, www.svet.rs, were able to feel a part of the atmosphere, by looking at the pictures and reading the text.
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December 15, 2008
The new outline of “Moja kosa” (My Hair) magazine
Starting from January 2009, readers of top magazine for stylish hairstyles “Moja kosa” (My Hair) will be able to enjoy the new outline of this popular magazine.
New luxurious and modern design will provide a much more attractive look to this publication, while its content will be enriched by abundant advice and suggestions about the best hair care products.
The new, redesigned issue of “Moja kosa” (My Hair) magazine, with a new logo and in a new format, will be available at the newsstands starting from January 2009.
December 10, 2008
The editor of the Serbian edition of FHM at a conference in Thailand
November 17-21, 2008
Editors from 34 countries in which FHM is published, held a fourth conference in Phuket in JW Marriott Hotel at the end of November.
The representative of Serbia was Momir Borocki, the editor of Serbian edition of FHM. The publishing leaders in the domain of male magazines had the opportunity to reveal information concerning the specifics of their issues, markets, as well as their international experiences.
“The topics of the conference, ranging from the problems of the small markets such as the Estonian (total population 2 million) to the brilliant examples of fighting censorship in Singapore, have confirmed our belief that we are all an integral part of a rapidly developing world and that our contribution is considerable”, Momir Borocki said. He returned from Thailand only a day after the start of the blockade at Bangkok Airport. Also, FHM Collection, which was launched by the Serbian edition of FHM this year, has been elected as the best innovative project in FHM network in 2008.
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December 5, 2008
“Teen addition” of “Bravo” magazine starts in “Novosti”
As a result of cooperation of the two companies, “Novosti” and “Color Press Group” starting from December 6, a regular teen addition will be issued in “Novosti”. The addition is edited by the editors of the three teenage magazines with the highest circulation in Serbia: Bravo, Bravo Girl and Bravo Screen Fun, under the licence of “Bauer Verlag” from Hamburg, and issued by “Color Press Group”.
Teenage addition issued on Saturdays will cover the scene of teen music and films, then deal with topics and dilemmas girls (readers of “Bravo Girl”) usually have, such as fashion, love and the like, and finally, present the latest video, internet and PC games for boys from “Bravo” magazine.
November 28, 2008
„Svet“ and „Ubavina i zdravlje“ – two magazines with the highest circulation in Macedonia
The latest research results of the survey conducted by „Strategic Marketing“ in Macedonia between October 1, 2008 and October 31, 2008, reveal that the two magazines published by „Color Media“, the member of „Color Press Group“ (www.colormedia.com.mk) are positioned at the top of the list.
Macedonian issue of „Svet“ magazine is first with rating of 6,47, while monthly magazine „Ubavina i zdravlje“ (the issue of „Lepota i zdravlje“ in Macedonian) is second with rating of 5,92. Our two magazines are followed by „Hrana i vino“ with 4,94, „Fokus“ (3,3) and „Oglasnik M“ (1,98)
November 27, 2008
Licensed magazine “Armband Uhren”
Coming up from December 15 – a new issue of CPG
Under the licence of the German company Heel Verlag GmbH, from the middle of December our company will launch the new magazine entitled “Rucni satovi“ (original title "Armband Uhren").
Magazine will be published quarterly (four times a year) at the price of 200 dinars and will feature the news from the world scene of wrist watches and jewellery.
The first issue features a special jubilee of one of the greatest brands at the wrist watches market – a centenary of “Rolex”. Readers may find out why black and white are still an absolute must have when it comes to wrist watches in the “Trends” column.
November 25, 2008
Out of five most read magazines – three CPG issues
Ratings of magazines in Serbia in October 2008 (SMMRI)
According to the research results of magazine ratings in Serbia in October 2008, the first was “Blic žena“ with 14.5 rating, followed by the three magazines of CPG publishing company, „Lepota i zdravlje“ read by 385.066 Serbian citizens (7.1), „Svet“ (322.036) and „Bravo“ (300.423), and „Gloria“ (248.132)
Apart from the three abovementioned magazines, Color Press Group has the following titles in the range of „above 100,000 readers“: CKM, „Moja beba“, „Kuhinjica“, JOY, „Bravacasa“ and „Top zdravlje“.
CPG magazines have higher total circulation than magazines of the second rated Ringier and the third rated Adria Media publisher
November 3, 2008
Vesna Milanovic as reinforcement to the “Svet” magazine team
Vesna Milanovic, one of the best journalist from Belgrade who covers show business and who, until recently, was the editor of the celebrity column in “Gazeta”. After this daily newspaper ceased to be published, she joined the editorial team of “Svet” magazine. Vesna has also worked in the “Ekskluziv”, “Nedeljni telegraf” and “Kurir”.
On occasion of joining the Serbian tabloid with the highest circulation, she said: “It is a great pleasure to be a part of the team who, in my opinion, creates the most prestigious Serbian weekly magazine with the highest circulation. Since tradition is very important to me, and “Svet” has a long tradition, as well as the respect from the Serbian public, it is with great joy, but also with a great professional attitude, that I will try to contribute to the quality of this magazine, i.e., that there will be even more exclusive, accurate and current information that our readers like the most. I hope I will stay with this company until I retire.”
November 3, 2008
Headquarters of Color Press Group moved to a new building
After almost 17 years of existence and change of several addresses, Color Press Group company has finally moved into its own headquarters – a new building in Temerinska street 102 in Novi Sad. The building is located at the entrance of Novi Sad (from the direction of Belgrade), a few hundred metres from Tempo shopping mall, and within the same distance of the future Delta City shopping mall.
The new business space occupies 1,600 square metres and it is functionally adjusted to the needs of the dynamic company that coordinates the work of its daughter companies throughout the region: in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, and the work of its representative offices in the countries of European Union: in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
There are currently 190 employees in the Temerinska street 102 in Novi Sad, and there are also 50 employees at the company branch located in Belgrade, Color Media International. There are 80 employees at the printing house Color Print located in Novi Sad. In the companies throughout the region and in the EU, there are another 45 employees, so there are approximately 365 employees in total in CPG.
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October 10, 2008
School for journalists and editors „Color Press Group“
School for journalists and editors integrated in „Color Press Group“ company has been active for four years and this autumn the ninth class will be enrolled.
School for editors and journalists has been founded with the goal to educate young people who wish to take part in this attractive profession. With a modern and dynamic approach, our teachers inform students about all the stages in the development of a magazine ranging from writing a newspaper text to editorial duties.
This enables students to perform different jobs in the media. During a three-month course, teachers, experienced journalists and editors of our company, will try to pass their knowlegde to the students, and their knowledge is credited by vast circulation of the magazine editions they work for. Some of the teachers at the course are: editors Mirjana Pantos i Angelina Caksiran, PR of the company, Milica Milić, long-time editor of the tabloid with the highest circulation “Svet”, Svetislav Stojanovic, the head of production of teenage editions, Aleksandra Prusina and many others. After they have completed the course, the students with the best results will have a chance to be included in our company as assistant journalists or assistant editors (as a starting position) in some of our numerous editions, and become a part of our successful team.
Some of the former students are putting their knowledge into practice by editing some of the editions with the highest circulation of CPG: Marko Cavic is the editor of “Mobi” magazine, Jelena Nadas is the editor for “Bravo Girl”, Ivana Stanisic is the editor of “TV Novele” and Maja Tadic is the editor of “Lekovito bilje”.
September 24, 2008
CPG at Media Weekend Festival in Rovinj
„Weekend Media Festival“, the first seminar which connects media experts and the entire communications industry in the region, was held from September 18 – 21 in Rovinj. „Weekend Media Festival“ lasted three days and the most significant experts in the domain of communications in the world and from the region presented themselves, and so did communications experts from Serbia – Aleksandar Tijanic (the director of national television RTS), Dragan Bjelogrlic („Cobra film“), Dejan Restak (the director of B92.net website), Ivan Vlatkovic (vice-president and marketing director of TV Pink), Vladimir Krulj (general manager of „Pristop“ agency), Robert Coban (the president of Color Press Group), Ivan Stankovic (the owner and the director of „Cosmunis“) and many others.
Apart from many lecturers from the region, many world famous stars were also present: Blake Chandlee, the originator of Facebook in Europe and the commercial director of this popular social network in Great Britain; Joseph Jaffe, one of the most sought after advisers of great global corporations and the lecturer on the topic of the new media; Ira Kurgan, one of the leaders of „Fox Broadcasting Co“ with more than 20 years of experience at the top of TV business in the world.
„Weekend Media Festival“ hosted 100 top students from different universities in the region, who attended lectures and discussions about the specific situation of the media in the region, about public and cable television. They exchanged their experiences about authors' rights, journalism education, internet, internet-radio and celebrity culture in the region.
The most attended panel discussions, with more than 1,000 people interested, were the ones in which the directors of state TV stations from Serbia and Croatia took part, Aleksandar Tijanic and Vanja Sutlic (respectively) (topic – Public Television: Servant or Master of the Public?) as well as the panel entitled „Celebrity Culture in the Region“, in which Serbia was represented by Robert Coban.
Apart from some minor beginner's mistakes, the first MWF was organized perfectly in the grand space of an old tobacco factory in the centre of Rovinj. The owner of the factory is the general sponsor of the festival, „Adris group“, i.e. Tvornica duhana Rovinj (Rovinj tobacco factory). The attendance hit the record, which is also due to the fact that Rovinj is the town which arouses positive emotions in its citizens as well as in representatives of the media from former Yugoslavia.
Apart from educational topics, the organizers tried not to neglect the entertainment part, so one of the sponsors of this manifestation, Croatian daily „24 sata“ (24 Hours) organized a party at TDR (Tvornica duhana Rovinj). All the men received Hawaiian hats at the entrance and all the women received floral garlands which they carried around their necks. A special treat was the visit to „Meneghetta“ in the center of Istra, located in the town called Bale. A glamourous cocktail and wine tasting was organized there for the lecturers at WMF.
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September 16, 2008
CPG at FIPP conference "Passport to Transformation" in New York!
The president of Color Press Group, Robert Coban, participated in the last week’s conference of International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) in New York, entitled "Passport to Transformation". The subject of this counselling was primarily news in the domain of b2b magazines (business-to-business), as well as the expansion of the digitalization in all magazine sectors.
The conference was held at the legendary “Roosevelt Hotel” and it gathered more than 100 of the greatest publishers in the world. The opening ceremony was held at the terrace of the Palace UN restaurant on East River, and the closing ceremony was held at the luxurious “World Yacht”, which cruised around Manhattan in the evening.
In his opening speech, the president of FIPP, Donald Kummerfeld expressed his belief that most publishers will overcome economical crisis, or the “storm”, as he referred to the growing recession and inflation in many countries, as well as to the crisis on the monetary market. “However, publishers must adapt rapidly to the changes ranging from digitalization to the ones expected by the readers and advertisers, in order to adapt to them in the best possible way, but without jeopardizing the very essence of their own media”, Kummerfeld said.
September 10, 2008.
Record ratings of „Svet“ magazine
„Svet“ magazine has beaten all previous records achieving the rating of 8.3 % in the last week of August (for period between August 25 and August 31, Strategic marketing), which means that the issue was read by 449,821 Serbian citizens.
„Svet“ is the most popular among the readers of age between 20 to 29 (rating 15.9 %), followed by teenagers (age 12 – 19) with rating of 12.5 %, followed by readers in their forties (age 40 – 49) with rating of 7.0 % and readers of age between 30 and 39 (6.7 %). The highest rating is recorded in Belgrade (11.1 %), followed by the region of central Serbia (7.7 %), and Vojvodina comes third (7.4 %).
„Svet“ is almost equally read both in urban (8.0 %) and in rural areas (8.9 %). The rating is evenly distributed across educational categories: readers with primary school education (8.8 %), readers with secondary education (7.9 %) and readers with university degree (8.7 %). Women (11.6 %) read „Svet“ more than men (5.0 %).
August 23, 2008.
Astonishing publicity of HELLO! made by twins of Angelina and Bred!
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
Last edition of Serbian Hello! magazine which had celebrity couple Pitt-Jolie on its cover together with their twins, broke a record about the number of readers. According to the last week survey of the agency “Strategic Marketing”, the overall number of readers was 109.809 in Serbia and instantly Hello! magazine gained for the first time the audience which exceeds the number of magical 100.000 readers.
In addition, this edition of the magazine had significantly larger number of advertisers, especially when we take into consideration that most of advertisers have modest marketing campaign during July and August.
After the announcement about the outstanding publicity of the magazine, in only two days the number of advertising pages has grown from 12 to 28 pages.
August 06, 2008.
The first family photos of the most famous acting couple
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
Magazine "People" has got all rights for publishing long awaited first photos of Angelina's and Bred's twins in the USA, whereas magazine "Hello!" has got rights for publishing same photos in the rest of the world. Thanks to that - seventeen pages with the newest photos and interview with happy parents in serbian edition of "Hello!"- Serbia will get to the center of global media universum. Thanks to company "Color Press Group", which is the owner of "Hello!" licence, readers at Balcan will enjoy the exclusive story at the same time with readers from all around the world. Paying 11 millions euro into "Jolie-Pitt" foundation, magazine "Hello!" got the right to publish exclusive photographes. This money will be put to humanitary purposes. Twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon slept throught the first photo session, absolutely unaware people surrounding them.
At the house in Provance, where couple have lived in the past few months, twins were acompanied by their brothers and sisters (Maddox,7, Pax Thien,4, Zahara,3 and Shilah,2). Twins were born by cesarian, on 12. july in Nice and Bred cut the cord. About newborns, proud dad says: "Viv has got mum's spirit, beauty and behaviour.She so elegant, just like her mum. And, Knox is more like me,and loves music as I do." At the moment. Bred's parents are giving the helping hand with newborns, which Jolie-Pitt couple comment: "Luckily, grandma and grandpa are here. It is a bit chaotic, but we are doing fine and having great fun."
Exclusive issue of magazine "Hello!" is out on 7. august!
August 06, 2008.
HELLO! National Taxi
In very close future, the HELLO taxi will start to operate in Belgrade, and soon after in numerous cities throughout Serbia. Some twenty cars of "National taxi" will have front page of Hello! magazine on them. Taxi drivers will give passangers the most pleasant drive, which will be in the same manner of Hello! brand. During the drive, clients will be able to browse the newest issues og Hello! magazine, as well as other "Color Press Group" magazines.
July 16, 2008.
„Lepota&Zdravlje“ the regional project becomes international!
After a successful launch of the issues for Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Croatia, Serbian monthly magazine with the highest circulation starts spreading to the markets worldwide this autumn.
„Lepota&Zdravlje“, a monthly female magazine with the highest circulation in Serbia in the past seven years, has started to spread to the markets of former Yugoslav republics. Slovenian issue was launched first, entitled „L&Z“, followed by the issue for Bosnia and Herzegovina which was launched in January 2008 („Ljepota&Zdravlje“), Macedonian issue „Ubavina & zdravlje“ was launched in May, and finally, Croatian issue „Ljepota&Zdravlje“ appeared on newsstands in July. As an ideal magazine for the advertisers, brands of almost any branch could find its place in it:: from food products to perfumes, cosmetics and fashion, to cars and banks. „Lepota&Zdravlje“ proved to be extremely successful in all the markets – the circulation ranges from 15,000 copies in Macedonia to even 40,000 copies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Almost all issues have more than 30 advertising pages, and the issue for Bosnia and Herzegovina holds a record in this respect with the average of 40 pages per issue.
Our company plans to launch an issue of this brand for Montenegro as well in order to cover the whole area of the former Yugoslavia.
Starting from this autumn, „Lepota&Zdravlje“ („Beauty & Health“, internationally registered title) starts spreading to the world markets. At the fair of magazine licenses „World Magazine Marketplace“ which will be held on November 6 and 7 2008 in Moscow, our company will represent „Lepota&Zdravlje“ to the publishers from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.
July 11, 2008.
„Color Press Group“ publishes half of the magazines with the highest circulation in Serbia
According to the results of the survey conducted by „Strategic Marketing“ in June, 5 magazines published by Color Press Group („Lepota&Zdravlje“, „Svet“, „Bravo“, „JOY“ and „Kuhinjica“) belong to the group of the 10 magazines with the highest circulation in Serbia.
The following companies have one representative in the selection of top ten magazines, Europapress with „Gloria“, Ringirer „Blic Žena“, AM „Sat plus“, Ja Co. plus „Skandal“ and Delicious Plus „Hrana i vino“. Publishers like Politika, Adria Media Srbija and Attica Media do not have their representatives listed in the top ten.
July 01, 2008.
Fashion in FHM, JK's wedding in Hello!
Summer has begun with exclusives in magazines of our company! In the new issue of refreshed and redesigned male magazine FHM, take a look at the final results of voting for the 100 sexiest women in the world. The readers in Serbia gave their vote to Ceca Ražnatović.
Photographs from her photo editorial, shot exclusively on this occasion at Cyprus, are published on the cover page and on another eight pages.
Starting from this issue, new FHM will have a regular addition „FHM Collection“ in larger format, which will publish news from men's fashion and gadget scene – including everything from clothes and watches to music and other hi-tech gadgets. This week's issue of Hello!, as we have already announced, will feature exclusive photographs shot at the wedding of Jelena Karleuša and football player Duško Tošić. The other magazines of CPG are also preparing exclusive editorials, interviews and topics – so stay with the most popular magazines in Serbia in upcoming warm days.
June 12, 2008.
„Color Press Group“ and Jelena Karleuša signed a contract about cooperation with Hello! magazine
Publisher Robert Čoban, on behalf of „Color Press Group“ company, signed a contract with show business star Jelena Karleuša about granting exclusive rights to Hello! magazine for wedding photographs of a future married couple Karleuša-Tošić, which is scheduled for June 28, 2008. Cocktail party celebrating this cooperation will be held on Wednesday, June 11, in „Ruski car“ restaurant.
„Ever since I became involved in show business, I have had a very successful cooperation with „Color Press Group“ company and „Svet“, „Lepota i zdravlje“ and „Tina“ magazines. I am grateful because they have always covered my career in an appropriate way, so I made my decision about ceding the rights to our wedding photographs pretty easy. I am particularly delighted because Hello! is one of my favourite magazines, and I had been reading it even before it became available in Serbian. I hope that our cooperation will continue in the future, to our mutual delight“, Jelena Karleusa said.
Jelena also signed a contract about the cooperation with one the most successful confectionery companies, „Pionir“, and a great promotional campaign for brands „Mania“ and „O la la“ is in progress. The representatives of this company have announced that they will be donating substantial quantities of their products to the institutions for child care, such as University Clinic in Tiršova street and the instituition for children without parental support, „Kolevka“ in Subotica.
Jelena's and Duško's friend and colleagues have also attended the event, Maja Nikolić, Nikola Rokvić, Olja Karleuša, Luna band, Ena Popov as well as numerous media representatives.
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June 11, 2008.
„Color Press Group“ Company was awarded „June Award“ from the Regional Chamber of Commerce
The president of „Color Press Group“ Company, Robert Čoban received a medallion from the Regional Chamber of Commerce Novi Sad for 2007, for the great contribution to the development of commerce in the region.
„June Award“ from the Regional Chamber of Commerce is a recognition which is awarded to companies and individuals for the results achieved in boosting the production, for improvement of entrepreneurship and management, as well as for the contribution for connecting educational, research and commercial activities.
Beside our company, the following companies which received a charter of Novi Sad Chamber of Commerce: “Carnex” AD Vrbas, “Budućnost” Ad Novi Sad, “Remming” DOO Novi Sad, “Tarkett” Doo Bačka Palanka, “Metals Banka” AD Novi Sad, “Aling Connel” DOO Gajdobra, “PIP” DOO Novi Sad, RTV “Panonija”, DOO Novi Sad.
Robert Čoban thanked for the awards on behalf of all the laureates:
“Companies whose representatives received awards today prove that great and successful companies which are the leaders in their respective domains in the whole region can be located outside capital city, away from the centres of political power, cabinets and budget. The newspapers in Novi Sad were once read as far as the city’s boundaries. This is not the case today. Our company has proved that it is possible to publish magazines read by the whole region, and the representatives of other companies that are present here tonight have achieved similar in their cities!”
Formal cocktail party that was organized on ocassion of receiving the awards was held in restaurant Piccolo Mondo in Novi Sad, where the most successful businessmen in the region enjoyed the beautiful surroundings and delicious Italian specialties and cocktails.
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May 6th 2008
The first issue of E-Magazine with new look!
On newsstands throughout Serbia and the countries in the region, the first issue of E-Magazine published by Color Press Group appeared on Tuesday, May 6. With a new design, refreshed with new editorial ideas, at the promotional price of 50 dinars, the new E-Magazine has retained all the best things from its previous concept and introduced a series of innovations.
In the first issue, Miša Brkić writes about "The Curse of the Deutsche Bank", central issue "Interest as a bait" deals with the phenomenon of savings in foreign currencies by the majority of Serbian citizens instead of savings in dinars which would be much more beneficial. The issue also features an interview with Toplica Spasojević, one of the most successful enterpreneurs in Serbia, an interesting story about Halal certificates which are necessary for the export to Islamic countries, as well as the story about unusual business temptations for the Boeing company.
The advertisers in the new E-Magazine are many prestigious domestic and international companies like US Steel, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Samsung, Telenor, Telekom, Samsung, British Airways, Chrysler...
Starting from the next issue, E-Magazine will publish articles from one of the world’s most prestigious B2B magazines – American Fortune Magazine. Color Press Group has signed a syndication contract with Time Warner Company, the publisher of American Fortune Magazine.
April 16th 2008
The first issue of Serbian edition of L’Officiel released
The oldest French fashion magazine L’Officiel, which celebrates its 87th anniversary this year, appeared at the newsstands today throughout Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbian edition of L'Officiel features 244 pages, it starts with the gatefold cover with four advertising pages by L'Oreal, which are followed by another 12 consecutive advertising spreads (30 pages in total), which is the record in the history of Serbian magazines. Editor-in-chief, as it is already known to the public, is the most famous Serbian fashion designer Verica Rakočević. The first issue of L'Officiel, apart from representing the latest trends in world fashion through French and Serbian editorials, also features an interview with the famous Ruška Bergman, an article about the film dedicated to the life of Valentino (Valentino: The Last Emperor) which will have a premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the conversation with Luca Donnini, the person in charge of MaxMara company, Serbian designer Roksanda Ilinčić...
To celebrate the first issue of the Serbian edition of L'Officiel, a party and an exhibition of French fashion photographs from 1921 until today will be held in the French Cultural Centre (Centre Culturel Francais) in Belgrade on April 29.
April 4th 2008
The great success of Lepota i zdravlje (Beauty and Health) on the markets of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia
During the last seven years, monthly magazine with the greatest readership in Serbia, Lepota i zdravlje (Health and Beauty), has appeared since the beginning of this year as a separate edition for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ljepota i zdravlje) and Slovenia (Lepota in zdravlje). After only three months, the magazines in both countries have exceeded the circulation of 20,000, which is a respectable figure on these relatively small markets.
The April issue of Bosnian edition of Ljepota i zdravlje is printed in 25,000 copies and has 40 advertising pages, while the Slovenian edition has a circulation of 21,000 copies and 25 advertising pages. By the end of this year, Color Press Group plans to launch its most prestigious edition on the markets of Macedonia, Croatia and Albania.
March 31th 2008
Color Press Group Company published the first licensed magazine in Albanian history!
Color Press Group Company published the first licensed magazine in Albanian history. Last month, the first issue of German fashion magazine Burda Modemagazin with the description of styles translated into Albanian appeared on newsstands throughout the country.
Magazine is issued monthly and it costs 350 leks (2.80 EUR). The magazine is published by Color Media Adria, a member of the Color Press Group with headquarters in Tirana. After the publication of Burda, Color Press Group plans to publish other licensed magazines, as well as those of its own production.
March 10th 2008
ON-LINE FUTURE OF MAGAZINES
Representatives of “Color Press Group” attended the FIPP conference in Berlin, devoted to digitalization of media
FIPP PRESIDENT: Dom Kumerfeld opens the Berlin conference
President and vice president for development of “Color Press Group” Robert Čoban and Miroslav Vajda on March 3rd and March 4th attended the conference “Powering Digital Success” in Berlin, organized by the international association of magazine publishers FIPP. Miroslav Vajda was one of the presenters, so from the former Yugoslavia’s market’s point of view, where CPG is active, he shared the experiences in digitalization of printed media, advertising in on-line editions of magazines, popular blogs, penetration of sites such as “Facebook”, “My Space” and “You Tube” into everyday life, entertainment, even into political events (the case of which is “Kosovo za patike” – “Kosovo for sneakers”, posted on the “You Tube” Web site, which was seen by million and a half viewers, mostly from Serbia and the region, in a period of only few days).
DIGITALIZATION OF MAGAZINES: Miroslav Vajda with other conference attendants
At the conference it was also mentioned that development of the Internet contributed to advertisers in classical terms becoming “publishers”, and therefore Ralf Maltzen, director of Internet marketing of the company “Volkswagen”, presented an attractive campaign which VW had had on its Web site, and which had been so creative and entertaining that it was presented by numerous daily newspapers, magazines and TV stations, in the end leading to 90.000 new contracts (automobiles sold) without a single euro invested in advertising on other Web sites and in other media.
March 3rd 2008
“COLOR PRESS GROUP” TOOK OVER “E-MAGAZIN”
In the future, alongside texts by experts in economics and successful businessmen from Serbia and the region “E-magazine” will, in production by “Color Press Group”, publish articles and comments by one of the most reputable business-to-business magazines in the world – the American magazine “Fortune” with whose publisher “Time Inc” the agreement on syndication was signed
By signing the agreement with the company “GSM Public”, former publisher of “E-magazine”, the publishing house “Color Press Group” has become new owner of this Serbian business-to-business magazine. The first issue in production by “Color Press Group” will appear on newsstands on April 15th. The magazine will contain one hundred pages and will cost eighty dinars.
Permanent associates of the magazine will in the future also be people from the world of economics and successful businessmen from Serbia and the region: Milka Forcan, Toplica Spasojević, Danilo Goljanin PhD, professor Milan Kukrika, Marina Svetel PhD, Marina Lazarević, Veselin Jevrosimović, Ana B. Bovan, Dragan Berger, Milena Božović MSc are among the names on the list. Beside their texts “E-magazine” in production by “Color Press Group” will also in the future publish articles and comments by one of the most reputable business-to-business magazines in the world – the American magazine “Fortune” with whose publisher “Time Inc” the agreement on syndication was signed.
February 29th 2008
VERICA RAKOČEVIĆ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE FASHION MAGAZINE “L’OFFICIEL”!
Verica Rakočević, the most successful Serbian fashion designer, yesterday signed the agreement with the company “Color Press Group” and became Editor-in-Chief of the French magazine “L’Officiel” whose Serbian version will appear on our market at the end of April this year. Fashion editor of the magazine is Ana Ljubinković, young fashion designer from Belgrade. The act of signing the agreement and cocktail party with the journalists and future advertisers were attended by many famous people: Leontina, Bata Spasojević, Miloš Nadaždin, Elena Karić...
Having signed the contract, Verica Rakočević said: “All these years I have had quality cooperation with COLOR PRESS GROUP. The people behind this big a company know very well how to make informative, interesting and visually attractive magazines. Although they have been offering exclusiveness, the prices of their editions have always been acceptable.
I know that “L’Officiel” will have all those qualities and that very soon it will become ‘fashion sign post’ for everyone”, and the president of “Color Press Group” Robert Čoban added: “Verica has been a friend of our company for fifteen long years and I am especially happy about crowning our long cooperation with ‘L’Officiel’, which is the French fashion magazine with widest circulation, and whose Serbian version the readers in our country will be able to follow in two months’ time!”
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