Responsible for running the entire publishing operation as chief operating officer, he was tipped as the other prime candidate to take on the role vacated by Sly Bailey.
In addition to the Rock 'n' Roll series, Competitor Group operates a significant publishing operation that includes Competitor Magazine, Triathlete Magazine, VeloNews and Inside Triathlon.
Since taking charge in 1997 of Pearson, a British publisher whose holdings including Penguin Books, The Financial Times and a major educational publishing operation Ms. Scardino has sold assets, including stakes in Lazard, the investment bank, and the Tussaud's Group, the wax museum in London.
Pearson acquired Simon & Schuster's educational publishing operation in 1998; Viacom owns the Simon & Schuster trade publishing operation and the name.
Trinity Mirror said that its publishing operation saw revenues fall £7.2m to £281.6m.
CanWest has tightly integrated its publishing operation, centralizing some operations like the design of pages, making piecemeal sales unlikely.
An additional $50 million to $100 million in new cash flow could come from the company's publishing operation.
Holtzbrinck is part of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a family-owned publishing operation based in Stuttgart, Germany.
Ad revenue from its digital publishing operation rose 49% year on year in the period to 27 April.
A news release that the university circulated this week announcing plans for a new publishing operation seemed only to intensify the venom.
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