{"id":2088,"date":"2017-09-01T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2021-04-23T03:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:08:45","slug":"magazine-changes-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/professional-pest-manager-magazine\/magazine-changes-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGAZINE CHANGES OWNERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Pest Manager<em> magazine enters a new era with a new owner taking the reins.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<p>After five years at the helm, <strong>John Forrest<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Gilbert<\/strong>\u00a0(pictured) have sold <em>Professional Pest Manager<\/em> magazine to Dr<strong> Phil Ridley<\/strong>. As lifelong \u2018ag boys\u2019, this will allow them to focus on their agricultural publications: <em>Rural Business<\/em> and <em>Tree Crop<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enjoyed our time as the publishers of <em>Professional Pest Manager<\/em> and have met some amazing and passionate people in the pest control industry,\u201d said Mr Gilbert. \u201cIn handing the reins of the magazine to Phil, we feel the publication will go on to provide bigger and better things for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the wider discussion about the value of print media, we hear nothing but positive comments about the magazine from our readers. They appreciate the opportunity to read, in a hard copy, the things that matter for their business. We look forward to keeping in touch with the industry and to watch its progress,\u201d said Mr Gilbert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe growth of the magazine would not have been possible without the fantastic support of our contributors and the industry suppliers,\u201d commented Mr Forrest. \u201cWe have been well supported and encouraged by industry suppliers and our editorial contributors and we hope that it has helped make your business more sustainable and importantly, more profitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking on this new challenge, Dr Ridley commented, \u201cWe\u2019re really excited about the possibilities. We have a number of new ideas to increase engagement and continue to improve the publication and, as always, feedback from readers is most welcome. With our knowledge of pest control, marketing and publishing we believe we can further develop <em>Professional Pest Manager<\/em> magazine as the leading information source for the pest control industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Pest Manager magazine enters a new era with a new owner taking the reins.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":2355,"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":"Professional Pest Manager magazine enters a new era with a new owner taking the reins.\u00a0","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"company":[],"pest":[],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[],"class_list":["post-2088","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\/2088","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=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}