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Napier News is our blog about the changes in the European electronics market, carrying the views and opinions of Mike Maynard, managing director of Napier Partnership Limited since the beginning of 2004.

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FAST Group acquired by Findlay Media

16th May 2013 • Leave a comment

It’s good to see that Findlay Media is looking to expand, and has acquired the FAST Group of products – FAST magazine (Fastening & Assembly Solutions and Technology), the biannual FAST Exhibition, and content rich Fastening Solutions website (www.fastening-solutions.co.uk) – from NewbyCom Ltd. Anyone involved in the fastening market – including our client PennEngineering –…

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BEEAs awards open for entries

8th May 2013 • Leave a comment

Findlay’s British Engineering Excellence Awards are now open for entries. After the success of our client, Outram, last year everyone at Napier has a real affection for the awards, and we’re looking forward to another great luncheon. To enter visit the BEEAs website.

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Indian shows increase space

1st May 2013 • Leave a comment

The organisers of electronica India and productronica India, which will take place at Pragati Maidan, New Dehli from 4th to 6th September 2013, have announced that they’ve increased exhibition space to 15,000 square meters. Whilst it’s obviously easier to grow events in a dynamic market such as India, it’s great to see such a successful…

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“Markt&Technik” to publish productronica 2013 official show daily

30th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

The team at Markt&Technik do such a great job of publishing show dailies for the major exhibitions. So it’s easy to forget how difficult it is to produce a new issue every day, especially when the journalists have crazy days filled with briefings from exhibitors. As it happens every year, perhaps it’s not “news” that…

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Changes at Electronics Weekly

29th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

As Electronics Weekly continues to settle in to their new home at Metropolis, there have been some changes behind the scenes. Publisher David Bentley has left the company, whilst Steven Ray has joined as Commercial Manager and Emma Mayhew has taken over as Publisher.

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Weka to hold 2nd ICT Media Summit

29th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

The first ICT MEDIA SUMMIT was a real success, and it’s great to see that Weka is making it an annual event. The second summit will take place in Haar, near Munich on 15th May, and will focus on the topic “Too much information – information overload of ICT decision makers and the consequences to…

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Svet mehatronike secures 400 paid subscribers in one month!

28th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

Svet mehatronike magazine has an interesting business model – a paid-for subscription of just 4 Euros per year. As I said in an earlier blog post, whilst we’re not talking large amounts of money, it will be interesting to see whether engineers are prepared to make the effort to sign up and pay. As it…

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Italian publisher launches new strategy for online content

24th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

It’s a fair critism that the biggest Italian publishers have struggled to match other countries in the quality of their online presence. This could change! Fiera Milano Media, publishers of Automazione e Strumentazione, Automazione Oggi, Fieldbus & Networks, Elettronica Oggi, Embedded, EONews, RMO Rivista di Meccanica Oggi, Progettare, Fluidotecnica and Energie & Ambiente Oggi are…

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Reed’s Electronics Bulletins achieve good results

24th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

Maybe we won’t be saying goodbye to Reed quite as quickly as we thought. Although their closure of EPN and the move of EDN Europe to EBP seemed to herald the end, even insiders have been surprised at the success of their Electronics Bulletin eNewsletter. The subscribers to EPN and EDNE were added to the…

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Great model of the engineer’s product selection process from SupplyFrame

24th Apr 2013 • Leave a comment

I really like this model of how engineers select and buy products from SupplyFrame. In their full article about the engineer’s design-in journey, they also pull out some great stats from research conducted by other companies. For example, as much as 67% of the buying process can be conducted online! Well worth a read. It’s…

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