On Monday, 9 March at 6.00pm Sir David Arculus will deliver the Stationers’ Company Annual Lecture at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London.
According to the Stationers’ Company: Sir David, Chairman of Energy (UK), Hassium Asset Management and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson plc, is a media giant with an epic story to tell. So his 2015 Stationers’ lecture will be highly colourful, and very hard-hitting, as he charts EMAP’s transformation from a small regional newspaper publisher to becoming a massive media group, encompassing magazines, events, exhibitions and data products. It was a journey full of twist and turns and big personalities and Sir David likens it to riding a tiger! Eventually, EMAP faltered and the good times faded; but does its legacy live on?
Sir David will tell his own story, inextricably linked to that of EMAP and will offer pointers to what went wrong and lessons for today’s rising media companies.
