Macclesfield media company sold

A Macclesfield-based tele-sales contract publishing business has been sold in a deal worth £100,000.

TV brand and audio production group, Zinc Media, is selling its remaining legacy tele-sales contract publishing business, currently trading as Zinc Communicate Publishing, to Specialist Business Media, subsidiary of The Datateam Group.

Datateam is a Maidstone-based publishing and events company which owns and operates digital and print titles in construction, healthcare, electronics and manufacturing.

Zinc Communicate Publishing began in 1995 as McMillan Martin, eventually becoming known as McMillan Scott. It was later acquired by Ten Alps in 2006, trading as Ten Alps Publishing until becoming Zinc Communicate Publishing in 2021.

The business is a tele-sales and contract publishing company, selling advertising and commercial inventory as well as producing publications within the construction and freight industries. It produces building control guides for local authorities in England and has recently renewed a long term partnership contract.

Mark Browning, Zinc Media Group chief executive, said: ‘Zinc Media Group has doubled in size in the last few years, with rapid expansion in television and brand content production.

“The disposal of this legacy tele-sales business gives the group renewed capacity to pursue its strategic focus on the profitable growth in television and film-based production.

“The publishing business will thrive within a wider specialist publishing group. I’d like to extend a personal thanks to the management team in Macclesfield who’ve been wonderful colleagues over many years and wish them well in their new home.”