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Publisher’s Note

By Samisoni Pareti
Managing Director / Publisher
Samisoni Pareti
Group Editor-in-Chief
Samisoni Pareti
Editorial Consultant
Samantha Magick

Designer PRICE CHECK
Dick Lee

Contributors Price hikes are never pleasant but As I had alluded to in my note last
Alipate Pareti month, these changes are necessary
Ambassador Kaliopate Tavola being caught between a rock and
Dennis Rounds a hard place has given us no other as we readjust our business to absorb
Kevin McQuillan choice but to up the price of Islands rising operational costs especially on
Sadhana Sen Business from 1 April, 2020. printing and distribution, as well as to
This will be true for all our prepare for the launch of the digital
readers in Fiji and beyond, with the version of Islands Business. We will be
Islands Business is published monthly by exception of those in the French making an announcement on this by
Front Page Limited Pacific territories of French Polynesia, the next edition.
Editorial & Advertising Offices New Caledonia and Wallis & Futuna, This also will be my last note to you
PO Box 12718, Suva, Fiji Islands. where IB prices remain the same at as publisher of the magazine, because
Tel: +679 330 3108, 773 1118
XPF500. That is equivalent to about from 1 March, 2020, I will handover
Emails US$4.50. Readers here in Fiji and to Managing Editor, Samantha Magick,
Editorial: editor@islandsbusiness.com in Solomon Islands get the biggest who as some of you know, is no
Subscriptions: subs@islandsbusiness.com price change, a 100 per cent increase stranger to IB nor to this kind of work
Advertising: marketing@islandsbusiness.com from FJ4.35 to FJ$8.70 and SBD20 to in our part of the ocean. Sam has
SBD40 respectively. been consulting editor for nearly one
Printing: Readers who use AUD, NZD and year and now with the blessings of the
PrintHouse, Suva, Fiji. USD will experience a 66 per cent board of the magazine, is determined
price rise from 1 April, with the new to take the magazine to a whole new
magazine retail price of $10 in the level.
respective currencies. For readers in I know you will join me in wishing
Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Samoa, her and her editorial team the very
IB magazine will undergo a 50 per best.
www.islandsbusiness.com cent jump, while Vanuatu will get a
December 2019 FJD $4.35
10 per cent rise.
We will also be updating our
subscription rates - more news on
PACIFIC PERSON
OF THE YEAR
Jacinda Ardern that soon.
Solomon Islands ............. SL$20.00
New Zealand .................. NZ$6.00
Tonga .............................P10.00
Tuvalu ..........................AU$6.00
Palau ........................... US$6.00
Niue ............................ NZ$6.00
Hawaii ......................... US$6.00
Australia .......................AU$6.00 French Polynesia .............. CPF500 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T10.00
Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
Cook Islands ................... NZ$6.00
Kiribati ......................... AU$6.00
Papua New Guinea .............K10.00
Federated States of Micronesia ......
Marshall Islands .............. US$6.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$4.35 Nauru .......................... AU$6.00
US$6.00
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