Perry Publications ready to relaunch Business Traveller

<p>Perry Publications has claimed back the Asia-Pacific edition of </p><p>Business Traveller, which was licensed out to Interasia Publications, </p><p>and is to re-launch the magazine in March this year. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The company has also set up a new business unit - Perry Publications </p><p>Asia. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Details of the new business were not provided, however </p><p>recently-appointed publisher Peggy Teo confirmed there would be </p><p>restructuring in the sales and editorial departments of Business </p><p>Traveller. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Ms Teo will be responsible for setting up and managing the new business </p><p>unit, the re-launch of Business Traveller Asia-Pacific, as well as </p><p>providing support for other editions of the title and overseeing the </p><p>general business in Asia-Pacific. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Ms Teo joins the company from Miller Freeman Asia, where she was </p><p>responsible for the travel group's five Asia publications and 18 </p><p>international publications in the North East Asia, Europe and Middle </p><p>East markets as regional advertising manager since 1996. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>She also spent two years at the Oriental Press Group as advertising </p><p>manager. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Perry Publications also holds the UK, US, Germany and Middle East </p><p>versions of the magazine. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Mr Jonathan Wall is to remain associate publisher and editor of the </p><p>magazine. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>He joined Interasia Publications as deputy editor of Business Traveller </p><p>Asia-Pacific in1989 and was appointed editor of the title in 1996. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>He was promoted to associate publisher and editor of Business Traveller </p><p>last year. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Ms Teo told MEDIA about her recent appointment, "When Nick Perry, the </p><p>managing director of Perry Publications, confirmed that he was to </p><p>reclaim the Asia-Pacific title, I immediately took up the challenge. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>"Besides establishing a new business outfit, the first in Asia for </p><p>Business Travellers' group of publications, I also had the opportunity </p><p>to oversee the final stage of the buyout completion. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>"Business Traveller Asia-Pacific has for the past 19 years, received </p><p>recognition of its editorial quality and with the re-launch, it will be </p><p>the definitive travel consumer title, bringing in line the prestige from </p><p>the other international editions." </p><p><BR><BR> </p>

by | 01/05/2001