Forbes extends brand to airport newsstands

Emma Bazilian of Adweek writes about how Forbes is licensing its name to airport newsstands.

Bazilian writes, “Through a partnership with Paradies, which owns and operates a variety of different airport and hotel stores (including CNBC and New York Times branded shops), Forbes has already opened its first newsstand in Detroit’s Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and will soon open three more in Washington Reagan and Washington Dulles airports. Along with the usual newsstand and convenience store fare, the shops will feature TVs streaming content from the Forbes video network and interactive touch-screen computers on which customers can browse Forbes.com. Throughout the year, the newsstands will run in-store promotions around various Forbes editorial franchises.

“‘Airports have always been strong outlets for magazine sales, and the traveling public has an affinity for what we publish,’ Forbes Media svp, consumer marketing and business development Nina LaFrance told Adweek. As for why Detroit was a good fit for the first-ever Forbes newsstand, LaFrance explained, ‘We’ve done a lot of coverage on [the] Detroit market in past and it’s a significant hub for business travelers.’

“Forbes has been getting into some unusual brand extensions over the past year—take, for instance, the Forbes Media Tower in the Philippines or the Forbes School of Business at Ashford University in Iowa—but this latest one seems right in line with the company’s magazine roots.”

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