Online shift drives magazine publisher
Bath-based Future said it was “fast becoming a new kind of business” after establishing itself as a publisher in the tablet computer market and growing its online audience by 70 per cent over the year to more than 50m users a month.
The group has also overhauled its loss-making US business and said recovery measures would see the division return to profit in the next financial year.
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Its digital revenues rose by nearly a third to £20.6m, now accounting for 18 per cent of group turnover.