Same company, but our management decided they wanted to distance themselves from the Europress group. I remember a explanatory memo being handed around talking about a deal struck by an Impact title which resulted in an unexpected bonus for a Europress mag, and a problem a software company had with a Europress mag having a knock-on effect on one of our titles.
Of course, as the Europress Group was funding Impact at the time, this has to be seen as a questionable decision. In hindsight, I think the ex-Newsfield management weren't used to answering to a head office, and they didn't like it.
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