Marketing Week is a magazine focused on the marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

 industry in the UK. The magazine is based in London

London

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The magazine is owned by the LSE

London Stock Exchange

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-listed company Centaur Media plc

Centaur Media

Centaur Media is a London-based business-to-business magazine and ditigal publishing group, formed in 1981, and incorporated as a public limited company. Flagship titles include Marketing Week, The Lawyer and Creative Review.-External links:*...

. Among the senior staff are Publisher Sarah Gilchriest and Editor Mark Choueke. Its circulation is approximately 40,000, with around 30,000 of those accounted for by controlled circulation. ABC primary circulation for 2009 was 36,619.

Marketing Week was launched in March 1978. Its co-founders were Michael Chamberlain, a former editor of the advertising journal Campaign, and Anthony Nares, an entrepreneur who set up Marketing Week Communications Ltd shortly before the launch. MWC subsequently launched Creative Review and was later subsumed in Centaur Communications, a buy-in vehicle run by Graham Sherren and Jocelyn Stevens (1982). Nares became managing director of the new organisation – a position he held until his early death in 1996. Chamberlain left Centaur in 1988 to take up a career in consultancy. He is currently chairman of BMJ Publishing Group.

Despite its long duration, Marketing Week has had only five editors. Chamberlain was the first, Stephen Foster (1980–1983) the second, Howard Sharman (1983–1988) the third, and Stuart Smith (1988–2008) the fourth.

Centaur also publishes Design week

Design Week

Design Week is a UK-based magazine launched in 1986 for the design industry. The publication was first published in October 1986 by Centaur Communications and currently [2011] published by Centaur Media plc...

, New Media Age

New Media Age

New Media Age is a weekly news magazine, covering business use of interactive media in the UK.New Media Age is owned by Centaur Media plc. It was launched as a newsletter in May 1995 under editor Phil Dwyer with reporters Nick Jones and Catherine Stewart...

 and Creative Review

Creative Review

Creative Review is a monthly magazine targeted on the commercial arts and design scene. Creative Review has a circulation of around 20,000 readers. In general it focuses content on media originating in United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, showcasing some of the best contemporary...

 magazines.

Rival publications include Marketing

Marketing (magazine)

Marketing is a Canadian business magazine about marketing, advertising and media. The magazine is published fortnightly by Rogers Media Inc....

, Campaign and Media Week.