14 / PPA
AS ONE OF THE key revenue generating
areas for PPA members, face-to-face
events are booming like never before.
This is also the case for PPA with the
past 12 months seeing an explosion of
activity across the board, representing
each of the various communities served
by the association.
Throughout the year PPA has
brought groups of interest together
in various venues to debate,
discuss, inform, educate, promote
and celebrate publishing and
business media and all the various
important components.
From targeted networking lunches
for less then 20, to a national
conference with 1000’s of delegates,
and the annual gala awards with over
1400 attendees celebrating
publishing and editorial excellence,
PPA brings all aspects and sectors of
the industry together.
BREAKING NEW GROUND
More than 2,500 publishers and
suppliers gathered at the magazine
and professional media industry’s
biggest annual event, PPA
Magazines and Business Media
2007, which took place at London’s
Grosvenor House on 8 and 9 May.
The theme was‘breaking new
ground’. On the busines media
focused first day, leading
playersfrom a variety of business
media providers shared insights into
how they were developing their
businesses, building on their brands
and extending their reach into their
specific niche markets. On day two
consumer magazine publishers
Left: Mark Price,
MD of Waitrose,
addresses
delegates at the
Magazine advertisig
conference.
ADDINGVALUE
Right: Tina Brown
(right), former Vanity
Fair editor and
author, in
conversation with
broadcaster and
journalist Philippa
Kennedy at
Magazines 2007
celebrated their heritage and
discussed their future in a new
multi-media age.
INFLUENCING
The public and legal affairs team
held a series of data protection
seminars, lunches with MPs and
other key influencers, information
seminars on the new gambling code
and mergers and acquisitions as well
as a high profile forum on the issues
affecting magazines targeted at a
teenage audience.
PPA Annual Review 2007-08
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