Features for March 2010
Editorial - March 2010
Editorial
A remarkable thing happened last month in the consumption of epic television adventure series “Lost”.
Retailers in wonderland as 'Alice’ gets early release
News feature
Walt Disney Studios will release Tim Burton tentpole “Alice In Wonderland” on DVD and Blu-ray just 13 weeks after its theatrical opening.
BSkyB prospers in downturn
News feature
Satellite broadcaster’s boss Jeremy Darroch says high definition TV is making real headway and that 3D prospects are good.
Say it with... DVD
Store Focus
It’s mid-February and romance is in the air. Emma Agu Benson checks out the leading supermarkets to see how they are converting fond thoughts for loved ones into hard cash sales in the run-up to Valentine’s Day
Technicolor reborn
Supply Chain Focus
Cue Supply Chain’s Bob Auger takes look at recent events and finds that the packaged media landscape has changed significantly
Rental Survivor
Tomorrows World Focus
Brighton-based Tomorrows World mini-chain has just expanded along the coast to Worthing. Jody Raynsford reports on a positive sign amid a generally gloomy rental sector.
Hitting the right targets
Letter from LA
Finding the right strategy for maximising DVD and Blu-ray releases continues to occupy the home entertainment business, reports The Hollywood Reporter’s Carl DiOrio
HIT's Little Big year
HIT Entertainment Focus
As well as celebrating the 65th anniversary of “Thomas & Friends” this year, HIT Entertainment will launch a major new brand that builds on its most popular properties. Jody Raynsford reports on the plans for the year.
GSCOP for improvement
Retail Focus
Global Retail Analyst Brian Moore looks at the implications of the new Groceries Supply Code Of Practice to supplier-retailer relationships.
Think tank says retail recovery still fragile
Retail Focus
In its latest white paper, the KPMG/ Synovate Retail Think Tank discusses the prospects for UK retail in 2010 and warns there are dark clouds gathering on the horizon that could create more turbulence for the sector and cause a “retail relapse.”
Enfield fires on all cylinders
Sony DADC Focus
If you hold any doubt that packaged media is still big business, a trip to Sony DADC’s distribution centre in Enfield would quickly change your mind, as Cue Supply Chain’s Bob Auger found.
Revolution in the air
Book Industry Focus
When Apple’s Steve Jobs strutted the stage in San Francisco in January to launch the muchhyped iPad, there was one group of people guaranteed not to be disappointed: book publishers. For the iPad marked a step change not just in the appeal of ebooks to consumers but in Grub Street thinking. Freelance journalist Danuta Kean reports on the prospects for the book trade in 2010.
Packaging and the environment
Supply Chain Focus
Not all plastics are the same. AGI Amaray’s Marketing Manager Sean Maddox discusses issues surrounding the use of plastics in home entertainment packaging and their effect on the environment.
Making packages clean, green and attractive to buy
Packaging
Sweden’s JakeBox manufacturers eco-friendly packaging for CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, and founder Jakob Skarin tells Pete Dodd he has his eye on the UK
To infinity and beyond
Sci-fi
The perennial success of the science fiction/fantasy genre has been boosted virtually to infinity by the arrival of James Cameron’s shooting star of a movie “Avatar”. Pete Dodd takes a look at what’s out there…
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