Profit (magazine)

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Profit
Profit (magazine cover).jpg
CategoriesBusiness magazine
Frequency Bi-monthly
Total circulation
(December 2011)
88,982 [1]
Founded1982;42 years ago (1982)
Company Rogers Media
CountryCanada
Based in Toronto
Language English
Website profitmag.org
ISSN 1183-1324

Profit, launched in 1982, was a bimonthly Canadian business magazine aimed at entrepreneurs. [2] The headquarters of the magazine was in Toronto, Canada.

Contents

History and profile

Profit was launched in 1982. [3] The magazine was published bi-monthly until January 1999 when its frequency was switched to eight times a year. [4] It then published six times per year [2] and, according to its website, it focused on "how to find opportunity and seize it", management practices, case studies and "access to peer groups". The headquarters of the magazine was in Toronto. [5] [ dead link ]

Its sister magazines were Canadian Business and MoneySense . In December 2013 Profit merged with Canadian Business, appearing initially as a special section of that magazine. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "About Us". Profit. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  3. "Profit". Rogers Media (in French). Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  4. "Profit forges ahead with increase in frequency". Masthead. 11 January 1999. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  5. "PROFIT magazine unveils 25th annual list of Canada´s Fastest-Growing Companies". TekStaff. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  6. Kate Wilkinson (9 December 2013). "Canadian Business and PROFIT merge to make bigger monthly magazine". Canadian Business. Retrieved 6 November 2015.