Profile Media, SA's leading investment data publisher, has announced plans to merge its two share market titles. RESULTS & EARNINGS will be merged with PROFILE'S STOCK EXCHANGE HANDBOOK from January 2006.

Results & Earnings, launched in 2000, was designed to satisfy demand from more sophisticated investors for analysts' forecasts and more analytical listed company data on the larger-cap stocks on the JSE.

Profile MD Nic Oldert says that various developments in the local market – including the diminished size of the JSE (in terms of number of listed companies) and the ever reducing number of companies attracting analyst research – have made it increasingly difficult to justify the R&E as a stand-alone publication with a specialist format.

From January 2006, the merged book, under the title of PROFILE'S STOCK EXCHANGE HANDBOOK, will be published three times a year at intervals selected to optimise the inclusion of published results.

The new-look handbook will be published on better stock and participating companies will have the option of colour entries. Companies will be able to include 'results-as-published', as they have done in the R&E. The new-look STOCK EXCHANGE HANDBOOK will incorporate all the most popular features of Results & Earnings and will have a circulation of 16 000 to 20 000 copies per issue.

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EDITORIAL CONTACT

Profile Media
Nic Oldert
(011) 728-5510
njo@profile.co.za 

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