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September 2, 2010 | Czech novelty:The new world of tasty inspiration - Prostri.cz
Sanoma Magazines Praha (SMP) introduces a novelty on the Czech market, an online cookbook called Prostri.cz. Prostri.cz features among others recipes, practical cooking tips and discussions from visitors. The recipes are illustrated with 300-400 pictures during the launch and about 50 photos will be added monthly. Prostri.cz has a distinc...
August 20, 2010 | New: Russian Cosmopolitan on the iPad
The biggest Cosmopolitan outside the US is now also available on the iPad. Starting with a free preview issue in September, the Russian Cosmopolitan is available for download in the iTunes Store as per today. The launch of the Cosmopolitan Russia iPad application is part of SMI's Vision 2020 Program and is the starting point of bringi...
August 12, 2010 | Affordable luxury: Story Romania introduces the Designers Collection
Sanoma Hearst Romania is cooperating with Romania's hottest fashion designers for a unique project: the Story Designers Collection. Each designer has created a fashion item for Story that will be cover mounted with the coming four issues of Story magazine.Mihai Albu, Catalin Botezatu, Razvan Ciobanu and Irina Schrotter are the four mo...
August 6, 2010 | Sanoma Magazines performance: Net Sales slightly up, Result improves significantly
In the first half of 2010, the Net Sales of Sanoma Magazines have increased 0.5% to €540.5 million. The operating profit excluding non-recurring items improved 36.5% to €64.2 million largely due to improved operational efficiency. Sanoma Magazines is part of media group Sanoma (listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, SAA1V).Key Indic...
July 26, 2010 | Sanoma Magazines International divests Sanoma Magazines Slovakia
Sanoma Magazines International has sold its subsidiary Sanoma Magazines Slovakia to ECOPRESS. Financial details will not be disclosed. The transaction was completed on 26 July 2010 and marks Sanoma Magazines International's withdrawal from the Slovakian B2B magazine market. Sanoma Magazines International maintains an active presence i...
July 19, 2010 | Elena Myasnikova - Media Manager of the Decade
Elena Myasnikova, CEO of Independent Media Sanoma Magazines publishing house, was named one of the 10 best Russian media managers of the last decade.The award was presented on July 8 as part of the 10th Annual Media Manager of Russia awards. The Board of Trustees of the award made the decision to recognize the 10 best managers from among ...
July 2, 2010 | Sanoma Digital Romania intends to acquire MagazinulDeCase.ro
Sanoma Digital Romania, a sister company of Sanoma Hearst Romania focused on digital media, has agreed to acquire MagazinulDeCase.ro, Romania's first 'For Sale by Owner' real estate market place. The deal is expected to close within the coming weeks. MagazinulDeCase.ro offers home owners the opportunity to put their real estat...
July 1, 2010 | Sanoma Budapest adapts organization structure to support digitization
The organization structure of Sanoma Budapest will be adapted to facilitate the change to become a fully digital media company. This should support digitalized operations across the company to bring offline and online products closer together and to implement a digital way of thinking.The organizational borders between the new media and t...
June 29, 2010 | Sanoma Hearst Romania launches Sensa, the magazine for a happier life
Relaxation, trust, optimism and self-respect, these are the values that Sensa, the new magazine launched by Sanoma Hearst Romania, wants its readers to recognise. There is no magazine like Sensa in Romania. The minute you open it, you immediately realise how warm and optimistic it is. Beautiful images and information are combined smartly....
June 24, 2010 | Kick'r - the newest iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch game!
Kick'r is the latest iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch game from Adria Media Ljublana which enables you to bend it like a true FIFA World Cup footballer! The game is uncomplicated, easy to learn and exciting to play.The Kick'r player's aim is to kick the ball as far as possible, beat the opponent, make it to the next round and perha...
June 21, 2010 | Autó Magazin, new at Sanoma Budapest
Sanoma Budapest is launching autó MAGAZIN in August. Autó MAGAZIN is the Hungarian edition of 'auto motor und sport', the German leading monthly car magazine from Motor-Presse International. Sanoma Budapest has purchased the publishing rights of autó MAGAZINE from Motor-Presse International, just like its sist...
June 15, 2010 | Sensa Weekend in Serbia
Sensa, the health and beauty glossy of Adria Media Serbia, organized a Sensa Weekend from 11-13 June after the successful Sensa Weekends of its sister company Adria Media Zagreb.The Sensa Weekend contained all aspects to relax and make time for body and mind, including stress and happiness workshops, neuro-linguistic programming classes, ...
June 14, 2010 | Story Café to open in Kiev
Sanoma Magazines Ukraine and restaurant chain Mirovaya Karta signed an agreement to open Story Café in Kiev. This will be the first celebrity venue in Ukraine where celebrity lifestyle and haute cuisine will be combined. Story Café adds, together with Story magazine and its website, a third strong feature to the brand develo...
June 7, 2010 | Story: Magazine of the Year!
Story has won the title Magazine of the Year at the annual competition organized by the Czech Union of Publishers in the category 'magazines with 25,000 - 50,000 copies sold'.Story competed against eight participants, including Maxim (Hachette Filipacchi) and Katka (Burda Praha). The jury of media experts stated that Story, compar...
May 10, 2010 | Sanoma Hearst Romania launched miresici magazine
Sanoma Hearst Romania (SHR) launched an unique project. miresici is the first magazine on the market which is developed on the request of the online users of the brides forum, miresici.ro. miresici - the magazine of the biggest bridal community in Romania - came from the pages of the internet's forum. It gives the future brides severa...
May 6, 2010 | Net sales Sanoma Magazines slightly down, results improve
The net sales of Sanoma Magazines in January-March 2010 were slightly below the comparable period's level. Sanoma Magazines is part of media group Sanoma (listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, SAA1V). Sanoma's magazine and digital media division experienced some growth in Belgium and Finland while other businesses were slightly down....
April 29, 2010 | First astrology course by SMP immediately fully booked
Sanoma Magazines Praha (SMP) has successfully started offering astrology courses. The very first course, organized last weekend at the SMP offices in Prague , was already fully booked.The astrology courses, led by famous Czech astrologists who for this purpose have an exclusive agreement with SMP, is part of an extensive multi-media appro...
April 29, 2010 | Czech novelty: English language lessons on your mobile phone
Sanoma Magazines Praha (SMP) introduces a novelty for the Czech market: English language lessons by text messaging. For quite some time Russian was the second language among Czech people. However the need for modern European languages, English in particular, is rapidly growing. That is why SMP has started this unique SMS servi...
April 12, 2010 | Sanoma Magazines Ukraine to publish for Kyivstar
Sanoma Magazines Ukraine (SMU) has won two tenders of Kyivstar, the leading mobile operator in Ukraine. Starting in May CustomLab, the custom publishing department of SMU, will produce the monthly corporate magazine Your Number and the Annual report of Kyivstar.The corporate magazine Your Number already exists for 4 years. The target audi...
April 8, 2010 | Nők Lapja Psziché, a new magazine by Sanoma Budapest
Nõk Lapja Psziché, the new magazine by Sanoma Budapest, is the first psychological magazine in the Hungarian market. Targeted at the female reader interested in everyday human concerns and psychology, Nõk Lapja Psziché contains a series of psychology-related topics and hot trends in psychological research.N&oti...
March 18, 2010 | Sanoma Budapest intends to sell Exit
Sanoma Budapest signed an agreement with Est Media Group (EMG, publisher of Pesti Est) on 16 March to sell program guide Exit, with all assets and rights. The contract will be signed within the next few weeks. After closing the contract, Exit will be published in a joint venture between EMG and a financial investor, starting the first hal...
March 18, 2010 | Sensa celebrates its 3rd anniversary in a special way
Sensa, the magazine for a happier life, is celebrating its third birthday this year. Being a novelty on the Croatian market and following a global trend of searching for peace and self-reflection, Sensa pioneered a new segment of modern feel-good glossies. Trough the idea of body and mind balance Sensa magazine introduced health, beauty, ...
March 17, 2010 | Hir24.hu, the innovative news website
Sanoma Budapest launched hir24.hu, a fast-pace news service website that collects latest news from several sources and features news in a compressed, summarized form.Hir24.hu features all kinds of news, ranging from serious topics to tabloid content. The content of the website is selected and edited by an independent editorial team. The p...
March 16, 2010 | Sensa weekends in Croatia
Sensa, the health and beauty glossy of Adria Media Zagreb, organizes for the 3rd time this year a Sensa weekend from 19th - 21st of March 2010.The Sensa weekends contain a unique program for self-development and self-fulfilment. The purpose of the Sensa weekends is to make provision for the participants to explore their own happiness...
February 18, 2010 | Sanoma Hearst Romania will publish Auto Motor si Sport
Starting with the April 2010 issue, the car magazine Auto Motor si Sport will be published by Sanoma Hearst Romania (SHR), the leading magazine publisher in the country. SHR obtained the license from Motor Presse International. Auto Motor si Sport, launched in 1997, is the first car magazine in Romania and one of the brands with a r...
February 11, 2010 | Results 2009: Sanoma Magazines ends challenging year strongly
Despite net sales and operating profit decreases, Sanoma Magazines (part of media group Sanoma - listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, SAA1V) has outperformed market developments in its key markets in 2009. Fourth quarter EBIT excluding non-recurring items was even 6.4% above the comparable period's level, notwithstanding the strong impa...
January 21, 2010 | Sanoma Budapest acquired HáziPatika.com Group
Sanoma Budapest has acquired a 50% share in the HáziPatika.com Group and is set to acquire the remaining half in 2011. With this acquisition, Sanoma Budapest's media portfolio now covers a full range of health information. Sanoma Budapest has a significant market share in digital media and magazines aimed at women. It is a stra...