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MairDumont launches into UK

Publication Date: Thu, 14/04/2011 - 09:15

German travel publisher MairDumont is to launch into the English-language market, with a new subsidiary to be based in the UK.

Former GeoCenter International sales and marketing director Ian MacDonald is to head the branch, named Marco Polo Travel Publishing. MPTP will take over distribution of venerable travel guides Baedeker in the...

Baedeker | ian macdonald | Katie Allen | mairdumont | marco polo | travel
Baedeker set for New Year return

Publication Date: Thu, 29/11/2007 - 11:45

The Baedeker travel guides, absent from the UK trade for the past five years, will be back in bookshops from January in revamped form.

Although the Baedeker brand has remained popular in Germany, UK distribution stopped five years ago owing to heavy competition in the market. The revamp includes 3-D images on laminated fold-out pages, a...

Baedeker | travel guides | Victoria Arnstein