PACKAGiNG & Print Media
is a vertically-integrated monthly magazine serving both packaging printers/converters
and packaging end users in the FMCG industries.
MISSION
To maintain editorial standards at an extremely
high level, with an editorial staff intimately involved and completely
conversant with the various technologies included in the magazine. Key
within this editorial policy are context and relevance.
To provide readers whether packaging
printers and converters, or FMCG manufacturers with the most up-to-date
information on technological developments affecting their businesses;
keeping them abreast of worldwide and local trends in all aspects of packaging
printing, design, materials usage, and other relevant technologies.
To provide advertisers with a medium
through which they can be totally confident of reaching precisely the
category of readers who are likely to be interested in and therefore likely
to purchase their products or services.
Regular editorial coverage includes
• General industry news; people on the move; etc
• Association News
• Prepress and repro for packaging printers
• Packaging printing & converting for producers of
• Corrugated packaging
• Folding cartons
• Flexible packaging
• Rigid plastics packaging
• Glass packaging
• Metal packaging
• Labels (self-adhesive,
wet-glue, shrink labels, in-mould labels)
• Printing industry advancements
• Flexography
• Gravure
• Sheet-fed offset litho
• Letterpress
•
Screen printing
• Digital
• Inkjet
• Press ancillaries (vision
control, colour control, etc)
• Inks and coatings
• Packaging Line Developments
• Filling
• Packing
• Labelling
• Coding & Marking
• End-of-Line Developments
• Palletising
• Logistics
• Distribution
Periodic coverage also includes
special reports on
- Food Packaging
- Beverage Packaging
- Drug Packaging
- Cosmetics & Toiletries Packaging
- Household Products Packaging
- DIY/Automotive Packaging
CiRCULATION
PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s circulation list includes senior management
at all packaging printers and converters throughout Southern Africa, as
well as packaging line managers/packaging specifiers and buyers at all
FMCG companies throughout Southern Africa. The journal’s circulation
is in excess of 4 000 copies/month – giving it the highest circulation
(by 1 000 readers) than its closest industry competitor.
Advertisements in P&PM reach a QUALIFIED readership among your target
audience and the magazine offers undisputed leadership in its field with
its superior circulation figures.
The people involved
The team primarily consists of editorial and sales staff who left National
Publishing in 2006 to establish the new magazine, PACKAGING & PRINT
MEDIA. They have unparalleled experience in publishing magazines for South
Africa’s printing, packaging and FMCG industries.
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: GILL LOUBSER, FORMERLY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
OF NATIONAL PUBLISHING (1976-2006)
Gill
Loubser, a Fellow of the Institute of Packaging (SA) and a recipient of
the Packaging Council’s Packaging Achiever Award, was previous Editor
of PACKAGING REVIEW South Africa (1979-2006); and since Editor of GRAPHIX,
AFRICAN PRINTER and AFRICAN PACKAGING REVIEW (2005-2006)
She is a long-standing member of the Institute of Packaging (SA) and has
served on its National Executive Committee since 1979. She is a past National
Chairman of the Institute, and during her term as National Chairman also
served on the Board of both the Packaging Council of South Africa, and
the World Packaging Organisation. She serves on the Gold Pack Awards committee,
raising around sponsorship and serving on the judging panel.
Gill is closely involved with the Printing Industries Federation of South
Africa, the Institute of Packaging (SA), the Packaging Council of South
Africa, and the Flexographic Technical Association of South Africa.
She is currently Secretary General of the International Packaging Press
Organisation, of which she has been a member since 1979.
Gill’s local and international contacts in the printing and packaging
industry are legendary; and her views are sought both locally and internationally
for industry comments and articles. She also is a prolific freelance writer,
and a popular conference and seminar presenter on packaging and related
topics.
BUSINESS DIRECTOR: SUSI MOORE
Susi Moore, a marketing
specialist, had 15 years’ previous experience of selling advertising
space, especially PACKAGING REVIEW, and latterly GRAPHIX.
She is a well-respected and highly successful business manager, with an
eminent profile, and an enormous number of contacts at a very high level
in all relevant industries, both locally and internationally.
As is the case with Gill Loubser, Susi Moore is closely involved with
the Institute of Packaging (SA), serving on the Northern Region Committee,
the Packaging Council of South Africa, and the Flexographic Technical
Association of South Africa.
GENERAL MANAGER: EMMA ROWBERRY
Emma Rowberry previously
worked as Deputy Editor of PACKAGING REVIEW and GRAPHIX. As is the case
with Gill Loubser and Susi Moore, she is closely involved with the Institute
of Packaging (SA) and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Institute’s
Western Cape Region.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: BRENDA NEALL
A significant recent appointment has been that of Brenda
Neall as Associate Editor with specific responsibility for FMCG Pack,
a magazine-within-a-magazine, addressing packaging matters of importance
to FMCG manufacturers. She was previously Editor of FOOD REVIEW (1999-2007).
UK/EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: DES KING
Des King is a world-renowned packaging journalist.
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: CLIVE GLOVER AND SUSAN UNSWORTH
Clive Glover, a freelance writer and photographer, present Clive’s
Column – a monthly review of new packs spotted on supermarket shelves.
Susan Unsworth, a freelance journalist specialising in printing and packaging,
will act as correspondent for PACKAGING & PRINT MEDIA in Gauteng.
Additional projects
The company undertakes company profiles, award brochures, and other related
publishing activities, based on the partners’ proven success in
this field.
PACKAGiNG & PRINT MEDIA:
WHY IT’S THE PUBLICATION OF CHOICE
FOR DISCERNING ADVERTISERS IN THE PACKAGING AND PRINTING INDUSTRIES
There are a many reasons to choose PACKAGiNG & Print
Media as your media partner of choice for marketing and promoting your
business.
First, and foremost, is that the PACKAGiNG & Print Media (P&PM)
team is absolutely committed and passionate about producing the only cutting-edge
print and packaging magazine of significance in Africa that serves the
entire packaging value chain though professional publishing principles
to create essential reading for the industry.
To do this the P&PM team ensures quality in every respect. Aside from
the obvious quality in terms of layout and design, and the high-quality
paper and printing, the P&PM team consists of some of the world’s
top packaging editors who know and understand packaging and printing technology.
They are seasoned journalists with many years’ experience in the
field and are highly respected in the global packaging and printing industries.
The result is a magazine that is read from cover to cover – this
is not simply our claim, it’s a fact confirmed time and time again
by our readers. This is not a magazine consisting primarily of irrelevant
press releases published without any consideration or knowledge of their
context. It is a magazine focused by two words that guide its editorial
policy: ‘context’ and ‘relevance’. With P&PM
you always receive a dedicated, committed, personal and customised service.
We’re here for you.
It is these key elements that create a world-class publication that is
of paramount importance to our discerning advertisers who know they are
judged by the company they keep. If a magazine is interesting, relevant
and trustworthy, advertisers are viewed as equally reliable and authoritative.
As important for advertisers is a magazine’s circulation database
... which in P&PM’s case is refined on a daily basis by a dedicated
circulation manager. Having said that, we realise that the people with
intimate industry knowledge need to supervise this critical publishing
aspect – thus in this publishing house the editors and business
managers are intimately and constantly involved in the accuracy and reach
of the database. Few other publishing houses can make this claim.
For P&PM’s advertisers this means they can rest assured that
they’re reaching their precise target market.
CIRCULATION
PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s circulation list includes
senior management at all packaging printers and converters throughout
Southern Africa, as well as packaging line managers/packaging specifiers
and buyers at all FMCG companies throughout Southern Africa. The journal’s
circulation is in excess of 4 000 copies/month – giving it the highest
circulation (by 1 000 readers) than its closest industry competitor.
Advertisements in P&PM reach a QUALIFIED readership among your target
audience and the magazine offers undisputed leadership in its field with
its superior circulation figures.
WHY P&PM DOESN’T CUT AD RATES:
P&PM’s advertising rates are carefully, and competitively, set
at a realistic level below which we cannot publish a journal of this quality.
To cut rates below cost would mean that the demise of the business would
soon follow. We want to stay in business, not only for our own sakes,
but also for the industry’s sake. We’re passionate about this
industry and believe it deserves a reliable and respected journal to serve
its needs.
IN BRIEF
• PACKAGiNG & Print Media is a vertically-integrated
monthly magazine (11 issues/ year) serving both packaging printers/converters
and packaging end users in the FMCG industries.
• PACKAGiNG & Print Media provides READERS
– whether packaging printers and converters, or FMCG manufacturers
– with the most up-to-date information on technological developments
affecting their businesses; keeping them abreast of worldwide and local
trends in all aspects of packaging printing, design, materials usage,
and other relevant technologies.
• PACKAGiNG & Print Media provides ADVERTISERS
with a medium through which they can be totally confident of reaching
precisely the category of readers who are likely to be interested in and
therefore likely to purchase their products or services.
• PACKAGiNG & Print Media maintains editorial standards at an
extremely high level, with an editorial staff intimately involved and
completely conversant with the various technologies included in the magazine.
• PACKAGiNG & Print Media is read monthly by more than 4 000
qualified readers and decision makers in the packaging, printing and FMCG
industries.
• PACKAGiNG & Print Media has close associations with many industry
bodies and is endorsed by the Institute of Packaging (SA), and is the
official journal for the Printing Industries Federation of SA, the Flexographic
Technical Association of SA and is the official media partner for IPSA’s
Gold Pack Awards.
WE’RE HERE FOR YOU!
We really mean this ... we're here to serve the entire print/packaging
industry. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to help you
with your marketing activities.
Contact Details
Packaging & Print Media
ADVERTiSiNG SALES
SUSi MOORE Gauteng &
KZN:
Mobile: 082 568 6729
Tel : +27 011 462 9225
Fax: +27 086 6021762
E-mail: Send
an Email
EMMA ROWBERRY Western Cape:
Mobile: 082 566 8558
Tel: +27 021 8433042
Fax: +27 086 5047421
E-mail: Send
an Email