Number of international publishers the fourth quarter of 2009, sales growth
McGraw – Hill Companies, the French Lagardere Group, Harper – Collins Group and other international publishing groups have recently published its 2009 fourth quarter earnings. By taking various measures, such large-scale publishing group in the fourth quarter, made mostly good
Sell Performance. International Financial Crisis, the European book trade is beginning to show steady recovery momentum.
McGraw – Hill: 3 years, the first quarterly earnings increase
Reason: strict control of expenditure the recovery of financial services
McGraw – Hill Companies announced recently reported a fourth quarter 2009 total revenues of 15 billion, an increase over the previous year 43.2%; to achieve net profit of 167.3 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 44.3 %. This is also the group since the third quarter 2007, quarterly revenue to achieve positive growth for the first time.
British "book business" magazine Web site reported that from 2009 the year of the situation, the Group McGraw – Hill
Education Publishing revenue fell 9.5%, to 24 billion dollars. Among them, the school education part of the most serious decline, falling 18.4%; higher education, vocational education and international markets decreased by 0.1%. Excluding restructuring costs of 11.6 million U.S. dollars and other expenses, profit was 276 million U.S. dollars, compared with the previous year fell 14.1%.
The Group Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Harold? McGraw III, January 27 In an interview with NBC Business Channel interview that the financial services, the Standard & Poor's (McGraw – Hill Group, a subsidiary of the world's leading financial institutions) in the United States and overseas markets continued to recover; in education, publishing, higher education, vocational education and international
Cooperation Business also improved; it has benefited from the revenue growth and strict expenditure control, the overall income in 2009 was achieved positive growth, and in 2010 laid the foundation to further improve. It is reported that in 2009, McGraw – Hill Group share price average of 2.33 U.S. dollars. Main business benefit from growth in stock price is expected to reach 2010 2.55 ~ 2.65 a share.
Lagardere: operating income last year reached 3.1 billion U.S. dollars
Reasons: the strong pull bestseller Electronic Significant increase in book sales
British "booksellers" magazine website reported on February 11, 2009, the French Lagardere Group, although the performance is not satisfactory in some areas, overall operating income still reached 31 billion, excluding exchange rate fluctuations, an increase of 6.5%.
Which Hachette U.S. companies Xinhua reported, while sales of the fourth quarter of 2009, losing to the same period last year, but still achieved annual revenue growth of 5.3%. It is learned only in December 2008 on the sale of "Twilight" series of books of Stephanie – Mel works 8 million. Meanwhile, the rapid sales growth in 2009, e-book ratio of U.S. companies accounted for Hachette 5% of total revenue.
Thanks Dan – Brown new book "Lost secret character," the driving, the United Kingdom and France both the fourth quarter of strong growth in business. Particularly in the UK retail market as a whole downturn, "Stephanie – Mel phenomenon" alive, Hachette UK market share to 15.8% from 2008 to 2009 of 16.4%. In addition, Hachette Australia last year, also hit a new high performance, sales revenue grew 22% market share of more than 16%, thus becoming the largest publisher in Australia. Hachette India Company in the event of weak market conditions, the sales revenue still grew 20% year on year.
It is reported that Lagardere Group's main business last year, only two blocks to achieve revenue growth in publishing is the one.
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