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Friday, February 20, 2009

Netweek tops 100 seats

MILAN, 20th February 2009 — A chain of 39 newspapers in north west Italy has added another 15 seats of Tera Digital Publishing’s GN3 editorial system to allow it to buy new publications in an expansion aimed at making it one of the largest networked publishers in the country.

The Netweek Media Locali group now has approaching 100 licenses for GN3’s Ted editing application and Fred pagination tool. Journalists at each local title run their terminals in a Citrix Metaframe environment connected to a single GN3 database at the group’s headquarters in Merate, north of Milan. And completed pages are dispatched from Merate to a variety of regional print sites.

The group, which also owns a regional magazine, Milano Metropoli - Lombardia in Europa, has a total circulation of over 300,000 copies and a readership of over 2,000,000, for its weekly and bi-weekly titles that it has built up by gradually buying interests in local publications. One of its latest acquisitions was in January 2009, when it purchased 10% of the weekly paper La Vallée, in the Valle d'Aosta, for €150,000.

Netweek has been able to grow because it is owned by DMedia, a subsidiary of the large, publicly quoted DMail Group S.p.A. media conglomerate, based in Milan, which also has interests in catalogue and internet publishing. That connection has also allowed the Netweek titles to have their own group web portal, www.netweek.it

Tera’s Italian dealer GMDE of Milan made the sale of the new GN3 licenses.

Carlo Caporizzi of GMDE said “A lot of the titles have moved from Quark XPress to GN3 as they were taken over. Because of the different publishing schedules of the publications, Netweek has been able to spread its license use, meaning the 15 GN3 licenses may be used by as many as 40 users, operating at different times of the week.”

About GMDE:
GMDE is the Tera dealer for Italy.
In Italy, Tera produces more than 40 mainly mid-sized titles. With an average circulation of 25 thousand copies a day, the majority of the Italian customers produce a regional paper or a chain of local papers.
Libero and La Padania, two national dailies, are produced using GN3. Libero, which is based in Milan, uses a 100 seat GN3 system to produce an average of 48 pages daily and over 70 thousand copies a day. La Padania, the daily Milan newspaper of the Northern League Party, has 50 seats and a nationwide daily circulation of 50.000 copies. La Padania also publishes their content on the web.
In the south of Italy, two of the most prestigious papers of the area, La Gazzetta del Sud, based in Messina, and Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, based in Bari, use Tera’s GN3. These two titles cover the south of the country with over 100 thousand copies a day produced by more than 250 seats.
Other Italian papers served by Tera’s GN3 are Corriere di Como, Corriere Adriatico, Gazzetta di Parma, Eco di Biella, the chain owned by media enterpreneur Mr Ciarrapico, Latina Oggi and the Italian media group CEGA, with 5 titles that cover the Adriatic Riviera, and the DMedia group with titles published in Lombardia.

About Tera Digital Publishing:
Tera DP is a worldwide manufacturer of editorial, web, content management, pre-press and archiving solutions for newspaper and magazine publishing. With more than 300 installations worldwide, Tera is a recognized world leader in newspaper publishing technology.
Dominant in many of our markets, Tera is best known for the quality of our engineering, the ease-of-use of our products and their very low cost of ownership.
Tera's product line includes multi-media editorial, archiving, advertising and prepress solutions. All Tera products deliver the highest performance, maximum reliability and low operating costs. Tera solutions are installed quickly, and easily, with the smallest impact on the organization.
More information is available by visiting this website, and through Tera offices and resellers worldwide.

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