A new business magazine is being launched in Manchester next week. Crain's Manchester Business, will be produced weekly from February after one edition this month and two in January. Crain's, a US-based publisher, operates business magazines in several American cities, including New York, Chicago and Detroit.
One of its executives, Arthur Porter, says: "There is a huge niche. Manchester is what we are looking to get right first, but it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know there are other opportunities if this is successful, as we think it will be."
There appears to be an appetite for local and regional business coverage. Insider Media, which started a monthly business publication in the north-west in the 1990s, has expanded into the Midlands, Yorkshire and Wales and has just launched in south-west England. (Via FT.com)
