Rodionov Publishing House

History

General overview: timeline

1996–2003

• 1996 Rodionov Publishing House Ltd. established.
• 1996 Profil business magazine published. Ranked among top three national business magazines.
• 1998 Kariera business magazine published. Ranked the first and most popular magazine

• 2003 Moulin Rouge / Max men's magazine published under license.

  2004–2006

• 2004 Profil magazine published in Ukraine under the license of Rodionov Publishing House.
• 2005 Domovoy home magazine acquired first glossy magazine in Russia.
• 2005 Glossy Publishing Ltd-advertising agency established.
• 2005 Kompaniya business magazine acquired.
• 2005 BusinessWeek launched, under license.
• 2005 Krest'yanka Publishing House acquired, with one of the oldest magazines in Russia.
• 2005 Profil magazine published, co-branded with Der Spiegel.
• 2006 Ona women's magazine
• 2006 XXL men's magazine acquired.
• 2006 Moy Malen'kiy parenting magazine established.
• 2006 M2 regional real estate newspaper acquired.
• 2006 TV7 acquired.

  2007–2009

• 2007 FHM men's magazine acquired.
• 2007 Moy Malen'kiy magazine launched.
• 2007 M2 sold to a strategic investor.
• 2007 – Der Spiegel-Profil launched in Ukraine.

  Other products and services

• Owns the Internet journal point.ru. It covers online news, financial news, themed pages on different topics, an events calendar, and general interest content.
• Business-to-business services
• * The company provides printing services for advertising and design agencies, book printers.
• * Provider of business information to the media market.

  Closure of ''BusinessWeek'' Russian version

"Three years after the Russian version of BusinessWeek magazine went on sale in Russia, the Rodionov Publishing House has decided to close the project, saying the journal format is not popular on the domestic market.
BusinessWeek spokesperson Patricia A. Strauss said the magazine would evaluate other projects for the Russian market. The license agreement will expire on 30 June 2008.
Yevgeny Dodolev, publishing director of the Rodionov Publishing House's business publications group, said the BusinessWeek format had never been popular with the Russian market.
"We have decided to close the unprofitable magazine because there is no advertising; and the project has not recouped itself," Dodolev told the paper.
He said there were no profitable U.S. weekly magazines in Russia.
Although our publishing house has invested over $10 million in the magazine since 2005, the project has not even reached breakeven point, Dodolev said.
TNS Gallup AdFact managing director Ruslan Tagiyev said there were already 15 weeklies on the stagnant local market. He said BusinessWeek was among the last to enter the market and found it difficult to promote itself. The Russian team proved unable to combine the Western brand and the needs of Russian readers.
Top managers at media companies with major assets, such as Independent Media Sanoma Magazines, Kommersant, RosBusinessConsulting, United Media, Seven Days and Media-3, said they had not interest in buying BusinessWeek's license."