Mike Knowles Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Produced Fruitnet World of Fresh Ideas, a live magazine show that now serves as the annual curtain-raiser for leading industry trade fair Fruit Logistica in Berlin.
• Managed the programmes for several other trade events including Global Berry Congress and Fruitnet Forum South-East Europe.
• Streamlined editorial, production and internal communications systems by introducing new technology to improve flow of information.
• Project managed redesign of company's three main regional titles as well as design of new titles and supplements.
• Oversaw redevelopment of websites for group's six industry titles, creating more straight-forward CMS for journalists and administrators, increased opportunities to generate advertising revenue and a more up-to-date.
• Helped with the launch of Fruitnet's first ever Chinese-language news service.

London, United Kingdom

• Maintained Eurofruit’s position as the European fresh produce industry’s leading source of news, insight and analysis.
• Spearheaded magazine’s expansion into digital publishing and social media.
• Managed team of journalists and sales staff, introducing digital-first strategy while sustaining high-quality, monthly print publication.
• Increased participation of key industry decision-makers and created close links with the fresh produce business.
• Accumulated large number of contacts through extensive networking.
• Raised magazine’s profile by providing industry commentary for media outlets including Sky, BBC, ITV, The Guardian, The Independent and Inc Magazine, as well as presentations at major industry events.

Interviewing industry players, sourcing stories and writing articles, as well as helping to organise magazine content and layout.

• Grew online community around site, boosting number of visitors.
• Developed new services (eg. daily news email), adding value to subscriptions.
• Contributed to significant increase in advertising sales.
• Produced and edited news and feature content.
• Project-managed major overhaul mid-2008.
• Optimised website for search engines.

Coordinating news research and output; conducting interviews and writing articles for weekly newsletters and news sections of MI’s three magazines – Eurofruit Magazine, Asiafruit Magazine and Americafruit Magazine.