{"id":10065,"date":"2020-03-01T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2021-03-20T01:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:14:42","slug":"new-era-for-uk-pest-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/professional-pest-manager-magazine\/new-era-for-uk-pest-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW ERA FOR UK PEST MAGAZINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The acquisition of Pest magazine in the UK signals a change of direction for the publication.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>It was announced in\u00a0January 2020 that the UK\u2019s independent pest control magazine, <em>Pest<\/em>, is under\u00a0new ownership. Now owned by Lewis Business Media (LBM), an independent, family-owned publisher,\u00a0the pest control title is a natural fit alongside its other agricultural titles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10067\" src=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Emma-Sharp-left-sales-director-with-new-Pest-editor-Simon-King-copy-low-res-300x231.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Emma-Sharp-left-sales-director-with-new-Pest-editor-Simon-King-copy-low-res-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Emma-Sharp-left-sales-director-with-new-Pest-editor-Simon-King-copy-low-res-260x200.png 260w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Emma-Sharp-left-sales-director-with-new-Pest-editor-Simon-King-copy-low-res-247x190.png 247w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Emma-Sharp-left-sales-director-with-new-Pest-editor-Simon-King-copy-low-res-136x105.png 136w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Emma-Sharp-left-sales-director-with-new-Pest-editor-Simon-King-copy-low-res.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New <em>Pest<\/em> editor Simon King with sales director Emma Sharp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>Pest<\/em> founders <strong>Frances McKim<\/strong> and <strong>Helen Riby<\/strong> (main picture, above) believe the move has secured a long-term future for the publication. They will continue to provide support during the transition period.<\/p>\n<p>Ms McKim commented, \u201cPest control won\u2019t be getting rid of us that easily! We will still be attending events, making sure things get handed over smoothly and providing editorial content. Both Helen and I would like to thank all our readers for their encouraging comments and contributions over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Ms Riby added, \u201cWe are very proud of what we\u2019ve achieved with <em>Pest<\/em> over the past 11 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acquisition of Pest magazine in the UK signals a change of direction for the publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":10068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"The acquisition of Pest magazine in the UK signals a change of direction for the publication.\u00a0","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"company":[],"pest":[],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[],"class_list":["post-10065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-pest-manager-magazine","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=10065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}