Newhall Publications
Newhall Publications is an independent, family-owned magazine publishing and marketing company. It focuses on publishing the well-known family magazine, Candis and running the Candis Club which owns the magazine, together with providing telemarketing and subscription services through Core Contact, the third part of the business.
Newhall Publications has its origins back in 1962, when founder Joseph K. Douglas created a newsletter to provide updates on the fundraising activities of the Cancer & Polio Research Fund.
Candis began as a fortnightly newsletter, printed in black & white and costing just 15 pence. Candis magazine became a great success and grew to the full-colour, 164-page version being published today. There are now over 236,000 copies of the magazine sold every month and it is the UK’s biggest selling subscription Women’s magazine. Back when it started, the newsletter was delivered by hand and from door to door by a series of dedicated agents. Today, it is available from a range of newsagents, as well as by subscription, directly from Newhall the publishers.
The second part of the business is Candis Club, a subscribers club that arranges savings on a wide variety of goods and services for members, as well as organising a whole range of social events. Discounts are available on everything from travel, home insurance, car and health cover.
Candis Club makes regular donations to health charities and is very proud to have helped a whole range of organisations, including: Marie Curie Cancer Care, Meningitis Trust and the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID). In total, Candis Club has raised over £53 million for charities in the United Kingdom.
The other important part of the business is Core Contact. This specializes in providing services to business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) clients, specifically relating to telemarketing, data and subscription management. Newhall’s telemarketing division was formed in 2001, when it decided it could best serve Candis Magazine’s customers by bringing telemarketing services within the organisation. However, Core Contact has proven more successful than expected and has expanded to additionally provide telemarketing and data management services to an external client base.
Newhall Publications have been recognised externally as a real success story. In 2010 it was ranked as one of the Top one hundred companies to work for in the UK by the Sunday Times and by Best Companies, and in 2006 they were awarded the JP Morgan Family Business Honours Award for Social Responsibility. The company also achieved the Investors in People status.