Hamilton, August 15 eDrive, the web-based interactive driver training tool designed to help lower New Zealand’s high road toll, will go on sale at BP Connect stores nationally from August 15. BP, with its commitment to road safety, sees eDrive as a way of helping not only the at-risk 15- to 25-year-old group, but […]
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Wellington, August 9 JY&A Fonts (http://jya.net/fonts), the typeface design arm of Jack Yan & Associates, announces that the majority of its font range now includes the Indian rupee symbol. It is among the first typefoundries to issue fonts with the new symbol. The fonts are now available for licensing from MyFonts.com and Typos in […]
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Hamilton, New Zealand, July 8 (JY&A Media) Visitors to New Zealand know that the country is one of the most beautiful in the world—but its roads can be treacherous, often due to poor driving behaviour. Dr Robert Isler has sought to remedy that using a web-based interactive tool called eDrive (www.edrive.co.nz). In New Zealand, […]
Stockholm, July 6 (JY&A Media) The special issue of The Journal of Brand Management, on ‘Conscientious Brands’, has the participation of three senior members and one life member of the Medinge Group, the Swedish-based, high-level branding think-tank. Both Medinge Group director Nicholas Ind and life member Ian Ryder have edited the well respected academic […]
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Wellington, May 21 (JY&A Media) Wellington International Airport Ltd. has announced its intention to erect a ‘Wellywood’ sign, apeing the Hollywood original, despite a huge outcry from residents in 2010 that had initially forced it to back down from the idea. Residents have taken to Facebook and Twitter again on news of the sign […]
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Publisher and designer believes bill is unfair Wellington, April 14 (JY&A Media) Wellington businessman Jack Yan is one of many netizens who oppose the provisions in a copyright amendment bill which had its second reading in the House under urgency last night. Despite each one of his businesses relying on copyright protection, Mr Yan […]
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Wellington and London, April 8 (JY&A Media) Autocade, the international car cyclopædia (http://autocade.net), reached its 1,000,000-page-view milestone this week, despite having had little promotion. It also announces a collaboration today with Keith Adams’s successful AROnline (http://aronline.co.uk), the best known online resource on British motoring history. Jack Yan, who started Autocade, intended it to be […]
Wellington, January 15 (JY&A Media) The Medinge Group (medinge.org), an international think-tank on branding and business, has announced its eighth annual Brands with a Conscience list. The Group employs yearly awards to support and encourage businesses who demonstrate humanistic, compassionate, sustainable and socially responsible behaviour. The awards may be given to organizations, large or small, […]
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Wellington, December 15 (JY&A Media) Stanley Moss, the CEO of the Medinge Group, the Swedish branding think-tank, will make his first visit to New Zealand between December 26, 2010 and January 6, 2011. Mr Moss is an internationally renowned speaker, author, artist and branding philosopher, and is one of the driving forces behind the […]
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Wellington, July 4 (JY&A Media) Sopheak Seng has been appointed fashion editor of Lucire, taking over from Samantha Hannah. Mr Seng had worked in the workroom for Robyn Mathieson before styling and merchandising for the Wellington designer. ‘I am delighted that Sopheak has agreed to join Lucire,’ says Jack Yan, the magazine’s publisher. […]
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