SK Press

Owners

In February 2018, the business of SK Press was divided into two legal entities:

LLC "Publishing House SK Press" publishes IT Week. Founders:

• 25.5% - Sergey Vladimirovich Dolnikov
• 25.5% - Alexey Mikhailovich Maksimov
• 20% - Fedulov Nikolai Petrovich
• 19% - Goldman Grigory Efimovich (director)
• 10% - Vladislav Vladislavovich Vovk

Revenue, RUB:

• 2018: 19M
• 2019: 21M
• 2020: 26.7 million, loss 0.7 million
• 2021: 26.9 million, loss 1.1 million
• 2022: 17.26 million, loss 1.57 million

SK Press LLC publishes CRN, ITRN and Byte. Founders for 2023:

• 20% - Balog Alexandra Dmitrievna
• 20% - Vladislav Vladislavovich Vovk
• 20% - Zolotova Elina Anatolyevna
• 20% - Marchenko Olga Valerievna
• 20% - Svetlana Vyacheslavovna Belova

Revenue, RUB:

• 2018:16 million rubles
• 2019: RUR 20 million
• 2020: 32.9 million, profit 10.6 million
• 2021: 39.8 million, profit - 11.3 million
• 2022: 11.42 million, loss - 4.36 million

Products

For 2010, the products of the publishing house included:

Information technology publications:

• CRN/RE magazine (renamed ITCnews in 2022 and later that year in Novostiitkanala.ru)
• newspaper PC Week/RE (renamed IT Week in 2018)
• website BYTEmag.ru

Closed editions

• Intelligent Enterprise/RE log (closed in 2017 numbers archive)
• PC Magazine/RE (closed July 2018)

Life style editions:

• InStyle

Inflight publications:

• Austrian Style
• Deutsche Vita
• Fly Italian
• Scandinavian Style
• Singapore Style
• Swiss Style
• "High Flight"
• Domodedovo

History

2022: Renaming CRN/RE to ITCnews and on to Novostiitkanala.ru

From April 1996 to March 2022, the publication was published under the name CRN/RE under license from The Channel Company (USA). In March 2022, it was decided to rename ITCnews . Later that year, the white edition was renamed to Novostiitkanala.ru.

2018

Division of assets into two legal entities "SK Press" and "Publishing House SK Press" with different founders

In February 2018, the business of SK Press was divided into two legal entities:

• LLC "Publishing House SK Press" publishes IT Week.

• SK Press LLC publishes CRN, ITRN and Byte.

Founders:

• 30% - Fedulov Nikolai Petrovich
• 16% - Balog Alexandra Dmitrievna
• 16% - Vladislav Vladislavovich Vovk
• 16% - Zolotova Elina Anatolyevna (director)
• 16% - Marchenko Olga Valerievna
• 6% - Svetlana Vyacheslavovna Belova

PC Magazine closed, Ziff Davis license waiver

In July 2018, shareholders of SK Press Publishing House decided to close PC Magazine/Russian Edition and abandon the license agreement with Ziff Davis International.

2017: Reformatting PCweek.ru in ITweek.ru

In the first half of 2017, the PCweek.ru site ceased to exist and began to redirect users to the site ITweek.ru.

2015: PC Week and CRN/RE distributed by free subscription

If you take PC Week/RE, then it is directed to the corporate user and to the channel. Such a press lives by collecting advertising. Distributed by PC Week/RE mainly by subscription, this subscription is selective, although free. We choose the person we give our magazine to. To become a subscriber, you need to fill out a sufficiently large questionnaire from which we see that this is a professional working in the field of IT - then we give him a free subscription for a year. Then you need to subscribe again. This form of subscription, called "controlled circulation," is basic. We do not scatter the magazine for free through the streets, we decide for ourselves who to give it to. As a rule, the bulk of highly specialized industrial publications are distributed in the West. The CRN/RE edition also gets to readers according to this scheme.

1995: PC Week Launch

The founder of the publishing house "SK Press" Evgeny Adlerov came to the publishing business in the early 1990s. Then IT IT-Business began to appear in the country and it was necessary to establish its information service. But information about IT, modern, world-class, was absent in the country. There was a real information hunger. In principle, he was in all industries, but it seemed that in IT in particular. It was clear to the whole world that IT is a tool to move business forward. A business that had serious IT resources developed faster than one that did not. And it was felt that in Russia we needed world-class information both for the IT companies themselves and for the enterprises that were going to use IT.

Computer magazines were then the main, and often the only source of information about the world of information technology. The original English-language editions were almost inaccessible to most domestic specialists due to the price and delivery difficulties, so the appearance in 1995 in Russian of the weekly PC Week, one of the most popular IT publications in the world, was greeted by the reading IT public with a bang.

1991: Issue of the first issue of PC Magazine/RE

In June 1991, the first issue of PC Magazine/RE was published in Russia under license from the American Ziff Davis International. See the number.

See also

• Media about IT and telecom (Russian market)