The FT reports that:
“McGraw-Hill could reap just $1 from a sale of Business Week, according to people familiar with the 80-year-old financial magazine’s losses.
The publisher has appointed Evercore, the boutique investment bank, to sell the business after concluding it was non-core, two people familiar with the decision said. McGraw-Hill, which owns the Standard & Poor’s rating agency and a large educational publisher, would only say it was “exploring strategic options” for Business Week. Evercore did not return calls.
Auctioning a predominantly print business exposed to financial advertisers during a media recession will be challenging. According to the Publishers’ Information Bureau, Business Week’s advertising revenues fell by a third to $77.8m in the first half of 2009. The magazine says its circulation is 936,000.”
Perhaps I should bid $2 . . .
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Source:
Business Week sale may fetch only $1
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
FT, July 13 2009
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd68cdc6-6fdc-11de-b835-00144feabdc0.html
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