Bart Van Den Acker Email & Phone Number

Leidschendam, South Holland, Netherlands

My main clients are Arts & Auto (lifestyle magazine from the medical society VVAA) and anwb.nl/auto (public automotive site from the dutch tourist board). For ANWB I have already done over 500 online consumer oriented 'occasion tests' on popular used cars and I run a weekly page the newspaper 'De Telegraaf', also on 2nd hand cars. I am also working for (among others) Automobiel Management, and 'CorsaItalia', a magazine on classic and new Italian cars. Since early 2019 I am also the editor in chief of the magazine (6 issues per year) Auto in Miniatuur and the site Namac.nl, both on scale model cars of any kind.

I had a great time at Van + Van, combining my past experiences in both journalism and the automotive PR-business. The main clients I worked for at Van + Van were Arts & Auto, Honda, Autokampioen and FINA Nederland, plus many, many others. I left Van + Van in august 1988, only to return at 1-1-1989. The dream to start out at my own grew ever stronger, so I did just that in december '92.

I gained enormous experience working at Mazda, specially because the scope of work was so broad. P.R., Advertising, Sales Promotions and the Mazda brochures for almost all European countries were printed in The Netherlands and edited by me. A steep learning curve, but I desperately wanted to get back to automotive journalism.

I started out at my dreamjob! I wanted to be an automotive journalist when still in school and read AutoRevue (among others) for years. By coincidence I got this chance, moved to The Hague and enjoyed every single day in these 2 1/2 years until the publisher pulled the plug out. Gained a lot of experience though in writing and running a magazine.