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 section of the business.
Newhall Publications has its origins in 1962, when founder Joseph K. Douglas created a newsletter to offer updates on the fundraising activities of the Cancer & Polio Research Fund.
Candis began life as a fortnightly newsletter, printed in black & white and costing just 15 pence. Candis magazine became a huge success and grew to the full-colour, 164-page version being printed today. Now there are over 236,000 copies of the magazine sold monthly and it is the UK’s largest selling subscription Women’s magazine. When it started, the newsletter was delivered by hand and from door to door by a series of dedicated agents. Today, it is offered by an array of newsagents, as well as by subscription, straight from Newhall the publishers.
The second part of the business is Candis Club, a subscribers club that arranges savings on a wide range of goods and services for members, in addition to organising a whole array 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 an entire variety 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.
One other important area of the business is Core Contact. This specializes in providing services to business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) clients, specifically in relation 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 it has expanded to additionally provide telemarketing and data management services to an external client base.
Newhall Publications are already recognised externally as a real success story. In 2010 it was ranked as one of the Top 100 companies to work for in britain 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 organization also achieved the Investors in People status.