Natmags parent the Hearst Corporation has made a bid for Emap’s consumer publishing arm. "A successful bid would see Hearst overtake IPC and give the company a leading title serving every major demographic."

“It’s a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines,” says Felix Dennis … “but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.”

"UBS said it was concerned about structural risks facing the UK regional newspaper industry."

“We will be looking at Emap to see if there will be more fragmentation within it, and we would be very interested if there was,” [Wilmington ceo Charles] Brady said. “Their businesses are very good and some of them would fit very well with ours.

"Don’t believe Mondadori’s on-the-record denial that it is interested in Emap’s consumer magazines. It is. Italian publishing is complex."

"Italian publisher Mondadori denied any interest in Emap’s consumer magazines on Wednesday after The Times newspaper said it had expressed interest in the publisher of Grazia and FHM."

"Emap is cracking on with an auction of its three constituent parts, which if it goes according to plan will see Heat and its other magazines split off from Kiss, Magic and the company’s other radio brands, and the business publishing arm."

"Emap’s Zoo magazine website has seen a big increase in unique users from 524,922 in March to 718,486 in July, according to official ABCe figures."

Media Week: Emap’s "consumer media arm has drafted in Geoff Campbell, the former executive publishing director of Emap Australia’s men’s division, to work on a fashion-based online project."

Zoo assistant editor Steve Nash: "[W]e have taken a view that we will only publish images where we have contacted the creator in advance and they have consented in writing." How considerate.

"Emap has approached Stevie Spring, the chief executive of Future, about its vacant chief executive role. … Spring was contacted, but refused to comment on what she said was speculation."