The Quarto Group Inc CEO Marcus Leaver Discusses Today’s Half Year Results

The Quarto Group Inc LON:QRT CEO Marcus Leaver chats with DirectorsTalk about first half results, core division performance, Ivy Press & Small World Creations, Key highlights and an outlook for the full year.

 

Marcus Leaver has been Chief Executive Officer since December 2012 having joined the board of Quarto as Chief Operating Officer in May 2012. Prior to Quarto, he worked in the USA from 2005, latterly as President of Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, the leading bricks-and-mortar bookseller in the US. Before living and working in the US, he worked in London for Chrysalis Group plc, a London Stock Exchange-listed media company, latterly as CEO of Chrysalis Books Group, from 2002, and prior to that Corporate Development Director and in a number of different general management roles, from 1998. Marcus graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Art History, and received his MBA from London Business School.

The Quarto Group (LON:QRT) is the leading global illustrated book publisher and distribution group and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Our mission is to educate, entertain and enrich the lives of our readers, putting books in their hands, wherever, however and whenever they choose. Quarto creates more than 1,500 adult and children’s books a year. These books are sold into 35 countries and in 25 languages. Subjects range from Art ‘How-To’, Graphic Design, and Home Improvement, to Cooking, Gardening, Motoring, and Crafts. In fact, we cover any subject that can be better explained with photographs or illustrations. Put another way, we love making great books and we love selling lots of them to readers as passionate about our subjects as we are.

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