Reach suffers 20% decline in print advertising revenues
Reach, formerly known as Trinity Mirror, has recorded a 20% decline in print advertising revenues across the group. It was coincided by a fall of 4% in total circulation over the third quarter.
Reach falls short as print advertising & circulation extend relentless downward trend
The publisher of both The Daily Mirror and Daily Star recorded a 7% slide like-for-like group sales across the quarter, despite a 7% increase in digital revenue over the same period.
Despite such onerous headwinds chief executive Simon Fox declared the performance to be broadly ‘in line with expectations’, holding out the prospect of cost savings of as much as £2m this year as the integration of newly acquired Express & Star assets begin to bear fruit.
Looking further ahead to 2020, Fox believes the business will be in a position to save at least £20m per annum.
Fox added: “Our continued focus on tightly managing costs and driving digital revenue continues to provide confidence that performance for the year will be in line with market expectations.”
Reach reported a non-cash impairment charge of £150m for first half of the year, due to a challenging outlook for its regional businesses, but an operating profit of £66.5 million.
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