B2B publisher Centaur took 26 percent of its revenue from digital in 2010. But now it’s targeting 50 percent in the “medium term”.

B2B publisher Centaur is still in the acquisitions game, adding another specialist professional community to its line-up.

Digital revenue at The Lawyer and New Media Age publisher Centaur grew by £100,000 to £15.6 million in the year to June 30. But company-wide income fell from £66.3 million to £59.9 million.

New Media Age and The Lawyer publisher Centaur saw H208 revenue slide 19 percent from a year ago to £31.5 million as it swung from a £2.8 million profit to a £100,000 statutory loss. And the situation has worsened so far this year… No wonder it’s been axing titles -…

New Media Age and The Lawyer publisher Centaur has followed up last month’s announcement of a 16 percent sales half-year sales slide by warning its upcoming quarter will be even worse. From today’s announcement: “Since (January), we have seen a further deterioration in trading driven in particular by significant weakness…

Yet more B2B magazines look under threat from a downturn in advertising and subscriptions: Centaur Media is considering shutting its Brand Strategy and Precision Marketing trade titles as part of an on-going restructure, reports Guardian.co.uk, a week after news emerged that it was considering a plan to shut its Public…

Centaur Media is considering a plan to close down its monthly Public Private Finance magazine and accompanying website publicprivatefinance.com in the coming months due to a drastic downturn in advertising and subscription revenue, paidContent:UK has learned. The anonymous Private Fraser’s Doomed Magazines blog posted an email from a Centaur worker…

B2B magazine publisher Centaur joins the long list of traditional publishers being squeezed by the downturn and uncertainty in the markets. In an interim management statement taking in from June 30 to date, the Media Week and NMA publisher saw revenues decline 16 percent year on year due to “significant…

The Lawyer and New Media Age publisher Centaur’s income in the year to June 30 was about the same as the previous year, at £90.4 million, while pre-tax profit fell 14 percent to £14.5 million after £3.6 million was spent closing loss-making Perfect Analysis. Blame the advertising climate, with ad…

Same old story we’re seeing everywhere else. Revenues for the year to June 30 will be flat but online will be up 24 percent, business publisher Centaur reckons, ahead of its full September 18 announcement. Print revenue has fallen an alarming eight percent in just the last six months, blamed…

The differences couldn’t be starker - on the day regional news publisher Johnston reported more falls in print classifieds, B2B publisher Centaur finds online is nicely making up for declines in the same area. Ad revenue on Centaur’s magazine-branded websites - including Design Week and NMA - grew 17 percent…

B2B publisher Centaur has finally gone public to confirm recent reports it’s cutting back its Mad.co.uk marketing news site. MD Tim Potter said new sites for Design Week and Marketing Week “eradicated the need for a separate reporting team on Mad.co.uk” (via PG). Mad.co.uk will now merely aggregate material from…