Category Archives: Media business

Bringing Midwestern homes and gardens to China

Posted on 2005-01-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Meredith Corporation is an American media company that publishes magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal, Traditional Home, Midwest Living, and American Baby. Based in Des Moines, Iowa, Meredith has inked a deal with SEEC media to publish a Chinese edition of … Continue reading →

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Bertelsmann to invest in TV program production in China

Posted on 2005-01-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Deal watchers Pacific Epoch report: Bertelsmann is negotiating with related companies and government departments about entering the TV program production market in China, Bertelsmann chairman Gunter Thielen recently told International Herald Leader. However, the company has no plans to set … Continue reading →

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Beijing Youth Daily on the capitalist road

Posted on 2004-12-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, controlled by the Communist Youth League, is now officially on the capitalist road. Beijing Media Corp, formed from the newspaper’s non-editorial operations, had a successful IPO in Hong Kong. From the Financial Times (subsciption required): … Continue reading →

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Naspers stake in Beijing Media Corp: 9.9%

Posted on 2004-12-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The South African business newspaper Business Day has more figures about Naspers and Beijing Media Corp.

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South African media group to take 40% of Beijing Media

Posted on 2004-12-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Hong Kong’s Standard newspaper has a report on the imminent IPO of Beijing Media, the listed company that will be formed from Beijing Youth Daily’s advertising arm. According to the report, Naspers will subscribe to about 40% of the shares … Continue reading →

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Tom buys 35% of Huayi Brothers

Posted on 2004-12-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A story by Ada Shen originally written for Variety magazine: Hong Kong’s TOM Conglom Moves on Mainland Movies Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s TOM Group Limited announced a strategic investment for a 35% stake in privately-owned, Beijing-based Huayi Brothers, one … Continue reading →

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Beijing Youth Daily profits for 2004: RMB 205 million

Posted on 2004-12-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A Dow Jones report on Yahoo has some numbers in connection with the IPO of Beijing Youth Daily, soon to be known as Beijing Media Corp. Beijing Media Corp., which is due to hold an initial public offering later December, … Continue reading →

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Opening the Chinese media business

Posted on 2004-12-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Beijing Media Corp In July of this year, reports about the Beijing Youth Daily listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange began to appear (on Danwei here), saying that the Youth Daily hoped to raised between 500 million and one … Continue reading →

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Foreign newspapers allowed to print in China?

Posted on 2004-11-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Financial Times has a report on a China media development that may affect their own business: Foreign newspapers are to be allowed to print in China, in what is a small but potentially significant opening of the country’s market … Continue reading →

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Tom Group continues plans for world domination

Posted on 2004-11-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

La Ka-shing’s Tom Group continues its manic shopping spree in China. This just in from Pacific Epoch: Tom Bids For 49% Of Shanghai Xinhua Publication GroupTom Group is bidding for 49 percent of Shanghai Xinhua Publication Group, reports Ccidnet. State-owned … Continue reading →

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