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 | Greek Yellow PagesGREEK YELLOW PAGES (GYP), the leading provider of print directories, internet, mobile & telephone services in Greece, has chosen Calligram Pagination to handle in record time the production of its 55 printed directories.
Placed in competition with other international solutions and after an in-depth selection process, X-Media’s Calligram has been selected by GYP for its experience, its speed and its flexibility. All of which qualities will be of great use to streamline the directory business of GYP. |
 | OESP Midia (Brazil)GRUPO ESTADO, the second press group in Brazil, selected for its OESP MIDIA subsidiary the XIBUX web platform to organize the complete production workflow of the thousands of web sites sold by OESP Midia to its advertisers.
OESP Midia is a major directory publisher in Brazil, both in print and online, who experiences great success with its mini-website package offering its advertisers the full creation and hosting of their web site. To cope with such a steady growth, Xibux was the obvious solution for OESP Midia.
With Xibux, X-Media encompasses in its current portfolio another solution 100% dedicated to Directory publishers, and widens even more its online expertise. |
 | Wolters KluwerWolters Kluwer, leader of the professional information services market, has chosen the X-Media solutions CALLIGRAM E-BUSINESS and CALLIGRAM STUDIO for its French branch, which owns 60 printed publications and renown brands such as LAMY, GROUPE LIAISONS or EDITIONS DALIAN.
The advertising agency of Wolters Kluwer France will use Calligram E-Business for both the commercial management and the production, and Calligram Studio for the display ad tracking.
This successful go-live covers the display ad and classified ad management for the reference site www.wk-pharma.fr , and for the following printed publications : “Le Moniteur des pharmacies” (Weekly), “Porphyre” (Monthly),”Pharmacie Spécial Emploi” (Monthly), “Pharmacien Manager” (Yearly). |
 | Le Républicain Lorrain and l'Alsace (France)After an in depth consulting process and the solution certification in a context of real production (proof of concept), the French daily papers “Le Républicain Lorrain” and “L’Alsace” have selected the X-Media software solutions for the management and the production of its printed and online advertising space.
X-MEDIA solutions will cover the following fields: customer relationship, management, commercial management for the sales of advertising space (display and classified for print and online), sales reps and advertisers Web portals, display ad production workflow and the automatic pagination of classified ads. |
 | La VanguardiaLa Vanguardia, the highest-circulation daily newspaper based in Barcelona (Spain), has chosen Calligram Pagination for the production of its classified ads, legal ads and obituaries sections.
The Spanish daily newspaper is part of the “Grupo Godó”, the first communication holding of the Catalonia region, and as such this deal is a strategic move for X-Media on the Spanish market.
Calligram Pagination has gone live in production on October 1st 2009. |
 | Le Républicain (France)"Le Républicain du Lot-et-Garonne et du Sud-Gironde" has chosen the X-Media solutions AdPress and Calligram Pagination. This weekly newspaper based in Marmande and Langon (South West of France), is published in the French regions of Lot-et-Garonne and Sud-Gironde with a circulation of 24.000 copies. From April, Le Républicain will use AdPress for the booking and management of advertising and classified ads. The pagination of its classified ads will be handled with Calligram Pagination. |
 | Edit ItaliaWe are proud to announce the first installation of the AdPress booking system in Italy !
The new Italian publisher Edit Italia has gone live on February with two X-Media solutions, AdPress and Calligram Pagination, for the booking and production of its 4 classified ads publications: “Il Fe”, “Il Ro”, “La Pulce” and “Il Fe Casa”, which cover the area of Ferrara, Ravenna and Rovigo.
At Edit Italia now:
- AdPress is the booking system for all displays advertising and classifieds, with a strong interconnection with Edit’s web platform (www.veloannuncio.it) via daily import/export of ads.
- Calligram Pagination is handling the automatic pagination of all printed publications.
X-Media has invested to adapt AdPress to the specificities of the Italian market and this successful installation is the first step towards a wide use of AdPress across Italy! |
 | Automobili.com (Italy)The first Italian press group – Rizzoli Corriere della Sera (R.C.S.) – renewed its confidence in X-Media for the production of its new weekly supplement – "Automobili.com", a photo ad publication dedicated to car dealers.
Calligram's composition engine will be embarked on R.C.S.' intranet and extranet portals of ads entry in order to offer an instant WYSIWYG preview of ads, and Calligram Pagination handles the automatic pagination of the printed publication.
Like the other classified activities of R.C.S., all ads are falling in X-Media’s booking system, developed by its Italian subsidiary Uno3Sette.
The first issue of “Automobili.com” was successfully on September 22nd. |
 | GLN MédiasThe new specialized French publisher “GLN Médias”, has chosen for its two recently acquired publications “Transaction” and “Caractère”, the X-Media solutions AdPress and Calligram Ads. “Transaction”, a classified ads papers specialized in graphic arts, keys in all of its classified ads with AdPress and the pagination is handled with Calligram Ads. The magazine “Caractère”, the reference in the French graphic market, will use the X-Media solution AdPress for the sale of advertising space. |
 | La Manche LibreFrom April 3rd 2008, the French paper “La Manche Libre”,
publishes a new free distribution paper for classified ads: “Le Citymmo”.
The team of X-Media from La Rochelle implemented AdPress for this new publication.
The paper adorns a specific presentation, and uses Calligram Pagination to flow the ads and create the pages in less than 30 minutes.
Both systems AdPress and Calligram Pagination have been installed within a month.
“Le Citymmo” is published in the French region of Rouen with a circulation of 180.000 copies. |
 | Groupe Presse RégionaleThe French press group “Groupe Presse Régionale”, owner of ten weekly publications throughout France, has chosen the
X-Media solutions AdPress and Calligram Pagination in order to optimize the advertising workflow both from a technological standpoint and from a sales standpoint.
The publications “La Croix du Nord”, “L’Echo du Tarn”, “La Voix du Jura”, “La Vie Quercynoise”, “La Voix du Cantal” and “La Voix du Midi” will soon benefit from these solutions for the management, production and pagination of their ads. |
 | SecondamanoOn Thursday January 31st, the Italian people discovered the new look of Secondamano. To mark the occasion, the famous Italian classified ads paper Secondamano realized an important advertising campaign. The paper, Schibsted’s Italian bridgehead, was freely distributed in the subway with a new front page showing the classification index. This new layout was achieved thanks to the powerful page make-up system from X-Media: Calligram Ads. |
 | Friday-AdFriday-Ad, customer of X-Media since 1999, acquired the classified publications Boat Trader and Yacht Trader in order to complete its wide range of publications. As a consequence, Friday-Ad becomes the indisputable classified ads leader on the boat market in United Kingdom, both printed and online. Once again, Calligram Ads will be user by the renowned group for the pagination of these two new publications. |
 | Velay PresseSince January 2008, the free paper “Hebdo Velay” edited by the Velay Presse Company is produced thanks to the page make-up solution Calligram Pagination. The publisher benefited from the acquisition of the renowned solution from X-Media to change the template of its publication edited each week up to 37 000 copies and reduce its production time.
Soon, X-Media teams will also install the AdPress solution to manage Velay Presse’s sale of advertising space, as well as the Calligram Studio solution for the production of display ads.
In the future, software developed by X-Media should enable the production of the daily newspaper L’Eveil de la Haute-Loire, of the weekly newspaper L’Eveil Hebdo, of La Gazette de la Haute-Loire and much more publications edited by the company from the Puy-en-Velay. |
 | Trovo Casa (Italy)The first Italian press group – Rizzoli Corriere della Sera (R.C.S.) – renewed its confidence in X-Media by commiting it the production of its weekly classified ads publications of 24 to 112 pages - Trovo Casa.
Calligram's composition engine will be embarked on R.C.S.' intranet and extranet portals of ads entry in order to offer an instant WYSIWYG preview of ads.
Earlier this year, the press group had already chosen Calligram Pagination for its renowned publications: « Corriere della Sera », « la Gazzetta dello Sport » and « City » to manage the classified ads and obituaries sections.
The production of the first set of Trovo Casa publications is palnned for January in Milan. |
 | Lavoro e Carriere (Italy)La Pulce, X-Media's customer since 1998, acquired the job publication « Lavoro e Carriere », which comprises 3 weekly editions in the area of Roma, Milan and Turin. Following this acquisition, la Pulce decided to industrialize the production proccess of all these publications using Calligram Pagination. The production of « Lavoro e Carriere » which mixes editorial and job ads will be realized thanks to an additional license of Calligram Pagination and the legal ads module.
The first production is planned for January in Florence. |
 | New publication at Expressz (Hungary)Expressz renewed its confidence in Calligram, by extending the use of this solution to its “Seka” publication: a vertical free ad publication focused on the car market with great number of photo ads. Calligram Ads is used by Expressz since 2001 to paginate in record time “Expressz” free ads publication published 3 times a week. |
 | La Montagne Centre France (France)La Montagne Centre France Group, already equipped with Calligram Pagination for the page make-up of its newspapers and with Publissimo for the advertising management, has chosen GAP (Global Ads Positioning) in the framework of a change in the format of “La Montagne” newspaper on January 2008. The use of GAP for the management of ad booking will enable all Publissimo’s users to know instantaneously the status of reservations and sales of an edition and thus optimize the sale of advertising spaces. |
 | L'Echo Républicain (France)Since October the 22nd 2007, the regional information daily newspaper of Eure-et-Loir and Yvelines, and, the free weekly newspaper Cible 28, published by the company Echo Communication, are now produced thanks to AdPress and Calligram Pagination solutions. From now on, the classified ads are not anymore entered by technicians but by hostesses in local agencies thanks to AdPress. As for technicians, they concentrate on the page make-up being faster thanks to Calligram Pagination. AdPress coupled with Calligram Pagination enables the optimization of the flow of classified ads, as much from a commercial point of view as from a technical one. |
| RCS Media Group (Italy)The first Italian press group – R.C.S – has chosen Calligram Pagination for its renowned publications: “Corriere della Sera”, “La Gazzetta dello Sport” and “City”. Calligram will manage both classified and obituary sections, and the Calligram technology will also be integrated within the online ad booking system to generate instant WYSIWYG previews of the ads. |
 | Real-City (Czech Republic)Logic-Immo is a real-estate magazine published by Concept Multimedia (subsidiary of Spir Communication – France). In the frame of its international activities in Belgium , Switzerland and Czech Republic, our Calligram Pagination solution has been selected for the production of these local publications. |
 | Loot (United Kingdom)Loot (United Kingdom), is today one of the leading free classified ads support in Europe, publishing more than 100.000 classified ads every week. Loot has chosen Calligram Pagination for its great composition features to automate complex typesetting, and its ability to generate significant savings in paper consumption. |
 | Buy & SellBuy & Sell, market leader in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland produces five weekly edition totalling 45,000 classified ads and 1,600 display advertisements. The integration of Calligram Pagination has been part of an in-depth restructuring of the company aimed at moderating costs, and improving the response to growing readers and advertisers expectations. |
 | Le Journal de la Haute Marne (France)The regional daily newspaper Le Journal de la Haute-Marne (JHM) has chosen AdPress, CALLIGRAM Pagination, CALLIGRAM Studio and CALLIGRAM Editorial solutions for the redesign of its information systems. Since the edition of January the 30th 2007, classified ads pages (between 150 and 200 classified ads) are paginated with CALLIGRAM Pagination. Thanks to this software, the newspaper reduced significantly its production time. Indeed, the pagination of classified ads decreased from 2 hours to 30 minutes. The use of AdPress favored the centralization of ad entries by the sales force. X-Media thus whishes to make from JHM a representative window of what we can offer to the Regional Daily and Weekly Press in terms of ad booking and prepress. |
 | Le Robert (France)The well-known French dictionary Le Robert , symbol of a demanding and contemporary conception of the French culture, acquired CALLIGRAM Pagination in order to modernize the production of its dictionaries. CALLIGRAM Pagination has been recognized as the most stringent composition engine, and its' aptitude in handling complex layout for such demanding publication as dictionaries facilitated the decision for the renowned publisher of dictionaries & encyclopedias |
 | La France Agricole (France)The France Agricole group (GFA), already equipped with Publissimo and CALLIGRAM Pagination, chose the Web solution for Classified Ads (PAWeb) in the framework of the complete redesign of its services portal for advertisers. This application, particularly elaborated, enables internet users to buy and publish classified ads on all GFA’s press and online supports. Moreover, the entry of classified ads in back office has completely been modified. The group will soon integrate Quick Module in its portal. |
 | La Voix de l'Ain (France)The Hebdomadaires Catholiques Régionaux group acquired CALLIGRAM Editorial for all its local newsrooms and its 500 correspondents network. The implemented configuration covers the editorial system and the production of the flatplan. |
 | Midi Libre (France)The Journaux du Midi group renewed its trust in X-Media solutions by choosing CALLIGRAM Studio and Carnet Web (online solution for obituaries) for the Midi Libre portal. CALLIGRAM Studio will allow a higher centralization of the prepress production and an opening of this service to the advertisers and the sales force, especially with Calligram Studio Web. With Carnet Web, Midi libre will be able to offer a new service of ads entry to undertaker professionals. |
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