Bloomberg And Smart Connections Partner On Czech-Language Edition, Bloomberg Businessweek Česko
October 22, 2014
Prague, Czech Republic, October 22, 2014 – Bloomberg and Smart Connections today announced plans to publish Bloomberg Businessweek Česko, a Czech-language edition of the award-winning magazine starting in late November 2014. Under terms of the publishing agreement, Smart Connections will also produce a Czech-language edition of Bloomberg Pursuits, Bloomberg’s award-winning global luxury lifestyle magazine.
“Our partnership with Smart Connections further demonstrates Bloomberg’s global reach and continued expansion,” said Susan Vobejda, Global GM of the Bloomberg Content Service . “This is a tremendous opportunity for advertisers to reach influential business and financial professionals in two central European economies: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.”
“We are looking forward to our cooperation with Bloomberg, the leading force in global business and financial journalism, with much excitement,” said Lukáš Ševčík, the Smart Connections chief executive officer. “It is clear from our research that there is demand in the Czech and Slovak market for quality business journalism.”
Bloomberg Businessweek Česko will be published every two weeks and will feature global content from Bloomberg’s 2,400 journalists worldwide, including its bureau in Prague. Smart Connections will be responsible for integrating locally-focused business and financial content.
Overall, the magazine’s mission is to provide globally-minded business leaders with incisive analysis and unparalleled access to the CEOs, dealmakers and industrial elite around the world who are changing the face of business and finance. Kateřina Urbanová, the Czech publisher’s co-owner and editor-in-chief of its flagship magazine Svět Průmyslu, will also serve as the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Czech-language edition.
“I am honored that, together with my team of experienced reporters, I can bring this prestigious, award-winning magazine to the Czech Republic and Slovakia,” said Kateřina Urbanová, the Czech-language edition’s editor-in-chief. “My goal is that Bloomberg Businessweek Česko becomes a highly credible and sought-after source of business information in both countries.”
Bloomberg Businessweek has a global circulation over 980,000 each week and is available in more than 150 countries. In addition to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Bloomberg Businessweek currently has license agreements for local language editions of the magazine in Poland, China, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Indonesia and Turkey.
About Bloomberg Businessweek:
Recipient of the 2012 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Bloomberg Businessweek offers a global perspective, timely insights, and unique stories to a new breed of business leader who has an original vision for the future and a willingness to think differently. Founded in 1929, the magazine is a trusted market leader with a global circulation of over 980,000 each week and is available in more than 150 countries. Bloomberg Businessweek covers the business world like no one else can by drawing on more than 2,400 journalists in 150 bureaus across 73 countries. The award-winning Bloomberg Businessweek+ app is available on the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Samsung devices.
About Bloomberg:
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 320,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,000 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaux in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,500 people in 192 locations around the world. For more information visit www.bloomberg.com/now.
About Smart Connections:
Smart Connections s.r.o. is a dynamic publisher of successful business-to-business publications. The company, which is based in the north-eastern Czech town of Šumperk, was founded in 2008 by Kateřina Urbanová, Lukáš Ševčík and Marek Rottenborn. Its flagship publication is Svět Průmyslu, a monthly magazine aimed at mid-and-high-level management at the Czech and Slovak industrial sector. By bringing Bloomberg Businessweek to the Czech and Slovak markets, the young publishing house is expanding its activities to the business-to-consumer segment. The publisher does not own interests in non-publishing industries and finances the project from its own resources.
Media Contact for Bloomberg Businessweek:
Catrin Thomas, cthomas106@bloomberg.net, +44-20-7392-0673 (EMEA)
Rachel Nagler, rnagler@bloomberg.net, 212-617-7187 (New York, USA)
Contact for Smart Connections:
Katerina Urbanova, urbanova@smart-media.cz, +420 775 332 322