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MEED
MEED, formerly Middle East Economic Digest, is a media publishing company founded in 1957 focused on economic and business news related to the Middle East. MEED also provides advertising and marketing services.
The first issue of Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) was published on 8 March 1957.
MEED's founder was Elizabeth Collard, who later became an adviser to UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Middle East affairs[citation needed] and an associate of Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan[citation needed]. She also helped to establish the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU).
With two part-time secretarial assistants, MEED was produced on a hand-cranked Ronco printing machine. Every Friday evening, friends and relatives would help staple and stuff envelopes with the 12-page newsletter[citation needed]. Lacking editorial resources, the Middle East Economic Digest was a compilation from newspapers and other reports. Newspapers were flown in weekly from Cairo and Beirut, translated and condensed.
By the time MEED was acquired by Emap in 1986, it had a staff of 20 full-time journalists and 12 researchers and newsroom assistants to cover Middle Eastern business and project news. In 2006 Emap Middle East also acquired business website AME Info.
In May 2002, MEED announced it would launch a trade delegation visit to Iran.[citation needed] MEED stated that top government officials and agencies had participated in the Tehran meetings.
In March 2012, the owning company rebranded as Top Right Group, but retained the Emap name for its magazine's operation, which at the time accounted for around 18% of the group's turnover. In October 2015 Top Right Group announced it was scrapping the Emap brand and would stop producing print editions, and that over the next 12–18 months all titles would become digital-only. In December 2015 Top Right Group rebranded as Ascential, who in January 2017 announced its intention to sell 13 titles including MEED; the 13 "heritage titles" were to be "hived off into a separate business while buyers [were] sought".
On 8 December 2017, MEED was purchased from Ascential in a $17.5m cash deal by GlobalData, the London-listed company formerly known as Progressive Digital Media.
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MEED
MEED, formerly Middle East Economic Digest, is a media publishing company founded in 1957 focused on economic and business news related to the Middle East. MEED also provides advertising and marketing services.
The first issue of Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) was published on 8 March 1957.
MEED's founder was Elizabeth Collard, who later became an adviser to UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Middle East affairs[citation needed] and an associate of Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan[citation needed]. She also helped to establish the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU).
With two part-time secretarial assistants, MEED was produced on a hand-cranked Ronco printing machine. Every Friday evening, friends and relatives would help staple and stuff envelopes with the 12-page newsletter[citation needed]. Lacking editorial resources, the Middle East Economic Digest was a compilation from newspapers and other reports. Newspapers were flown in weekly from Cairo and Beirut, translated and condensed.
By the time MEED was acquired by Emap in 1986, it had a staff of 20 full-time journalists and 12 researchers and newsroom assistants to cover Middle Eastern business and project news. In 2006 Emap Middle East also acquired business website AME Info.
In May 2002, MEED announced it would launch a trade delegation visit to Iran.[citation needed] MEED stated that top government officials and agencies had participated in the Tehran meetings.
In March 2012, the owning company rebranded as Top Right Group, but retained the Emap name for its magazine's operation, which at the time accounted for around 18% of the group's turnover. In October 2015 Top Right Group announced it was scrapping the Emap brand and would stop producing print editions, and that over the next 12–18 months all titles would become digital-only. In December 2015 Top Right Group rebranded as Ascential, who in January 2017 announced its intention to sell 13 titles including MEED; the 13 "heritage titles" were to be "hived off into a separate business while buyers [were] sought".
On 8 December 2017, MEED was purchased from Ascential in a $17.5m cash deal by GlobalData, the London-listed company formerly known as Progressive Digital Media.