BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$751.4M
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- US
Dow Jones Description
Newspaper Publisher & Distr; Specialty Publications & Commercial Printing Services
Number of Employees 646
Contact Information
333 King Street East
Toronto
(416) 947-2222
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Media Representatives: 541840
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The Baltimore Sun Media Group offers 45 more buyouts
The Baltimore Sun Media Group said Wednesday that it will offer buyouts to 45 employees from a variety of different departments at the Baltimore-based newspaper. The announcement comes as The Sun's newly-established Business Development Office is actively recruiting reporters for a new print publication targeting younger readers, to be launched...
Monkeying around with The Sun MEDIA WATCH
THE media world is agog at the current spat between The Scottish Sun and Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov. After The Sun hired a psychologist to explain the wily ways of "Mad Vlad", the Lithuanian likened them to monkeys at the top of the media tree, throwing shit down on everyone...
Canada's Sun Media Corporation to Deploy MediaSpan's Content Management System
MediaSpan, the leading provider of digital content management, online marketing and national advertising solutions for over 4,000 local media properties, announced today that its Media Software unit has sold an enterprise version of its Jazbox content management system to Sun Media Corporation of Canada, owners of the country's largest chain...
The empire of the rising Sun takes on the all-conquering Murdoch
If at first you don't succeed... Bruno Wu, head of the Chinese media empire Sun Media, admits to meeting "my financial Waterloo" at the hands of Rupert Murdoch. Several years ago, he spent $100m (pounds 53m) trying to make a success of his satellite television channel, Sun TV, but couldn't...
Sun TV joins the myspace race in China
Sun TV Shop, the London-listed e-commerce start-up, is planning to launch China's first my-space-style community website. The company, which counts the manager of U2, Paul McGuinness, as a shareholder, plans to set up the site early next year. Sun TV Shop is controlled and...
SUN TV TO SELL 70% STAKES TO STELLAR MEDIA
AsiaInfo Services 05-29-2003 Sun TV to Sell 70% Stakes to Stellar Media CHINA, May 29, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Yang Lan, Chairperson of Sun Media Group Holdings Ltd., will sell 70% of stakes in Sun Television Cybernetworks Holdings Ltd. (to...
What's next for Nexnews?
IT took the Securities Commission SC more than three years to approve the proposal by Nexnews Bhd to acquire Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd, the company that publishes The Sun newspaper. Much of this time was taken to scrutinise The Sun's newspaper business and...
China's Stone Group and Sun Media to form broadband JV
Chinese computer firm Stone Group's Hong Kong-listed unit Stone Electronic Technology and Sun Media, the holdings company owned by television celebrity Yang Lan, are forming a new joint venture to develop cable and broadband systems. The new company, to be called Sun Stone Media Group, will be based...
China's Stone Group and Sun Media to form broadband JV
Chinese computer firm Stone Group's Hong Kong-listed unit Stone Electronic Technology and Sun Media, the holdings company owned by television celebrity Yang Lan, are forming a new joint venture to develop cable and broadband systems. The new company, to be called Sun Stone Media Group, will be based...
SUN MEDIA PURCHASED A PART OF STAKE OF ASIA PREMIUM
AsiaInfo Services 11-01-2002 Sun Media Purchased a Part of Stake of Asia Premium CHINA, Nov 01, 2002 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Sun Media Group Holdings Limited (former name: Sun Television Cybernetworks Trading Limited) announced on October 25 an agreement with Asia...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Pierre Francoeur | CEO |
| Outremont Quebec | President |
| Kin-Man Lee | CFO & Vice President |
| Craig J. Martin | Executive Vice President, Operations, Western & Central |
| Sandy Muir | Senior Vice President, Sales |
| Beaconsfield Quebec | Vice President |
| Bill McDonald | Vice President, Corp Sales |
| Chris Krygiel | Vice President, HR |
| David Swail | Vice President, Operations, Central Canada |
| John Paton | Vice President |
| Nelson Lam | Vice President |
| Richmond Hill Ontario | Vice President |
| Chris McCarthy | Marketing Director |
| Daniel R. Quinn | Director, Sales, Marketing |
| Darryl Boynton | Manager, Marketing |
| Robert Jordan | Manager, Marketing |
| Alan Shanoff | General Counsel |
| Fred Rinne | Website Coordinator and Inquiries |
| Louis St-Arnaud | Secretary |
| William R. Dempsey | Executive Advisor |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation | President & CEO | Current |
| Sun Media Corporation | CEO | Current |
| Quebecor, Inc. | COO | Current |
| Quebecor Media, Inc. | President & COO | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation | CEO & Publisher | Current |
| Sun Media Corporation | CFO & Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Executive Vice President, Operations, Western & Central | Current |
| The Edmonton Sun | CEO | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Senior Vice President, Sales | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President, Corp Sales | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President, HR | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President, Operations, Central Canada | Current |
John Paton has been a prominent newspaper executive for 30 years in the U.S. and Canada. Along with his executive position with ImpreMedia, he is also a member of the board. Since 2003, Mr. Paton has built a reputation as a leading Hispanic media executive garnering recognition as a "Media All-Star" from Adweek's Marketing y Medios in 2005 and Hispanic Media Executive of the Year by HispanicAd.com at the 2006 Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies' annual conference - the first bestowed to a non-broadcast Hispanic media executive. Prior to his most recent appointment he was President and Chief Operating Officer of ImpreMedia. He is the former vice-president of Sun Media Corp. - Canada's second largest newspaper chain with nearly $900 million in annual revenues where he sharpened his skills in running newspapers in multiple markets. He is the former publisher of two major Canadian dailies and the CEO of www.canoe.com. Mr. Paton played a senior management role in the 1996 management-led leveraged buyout of Sun Media Corp. and subsequent sale for more than $1 billion. A graduate of the Journalism Program at Ryerson University and the Finance for Senior Executives program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, he is currently a trustee of the Osprey Media Income Fund and has served on numerous company boards, industry groups and charitable groups.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President | Current |
| Osprey Media Income Fund | Trustee | Current |
| Impremedia, LLC | Member of the Board | Current |
| Impremedia, LLC | Chairman & CEO | Former |
| Impremedia, LLC | President and Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Ryerson University | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Marketing Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Director, Sales, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Manager, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Manager, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | General Counsel | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Website Coordinator and Inquiries | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Secretary | Current |
| Sun Media Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Media Corporation | Executive Advisor | Current |
| Bowes Publishers Limited | President | Former |
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