We’re using the slow week to catch up on presentations made at a couple of media investor conferences earlier this month. HarperCollins CFO Bedi Singh appeared at a Morgan Stanley conference in early March, where he underscored the better than expected results already coming from last year’s Harlequin acquisition. “Harlequin is going quite well; the integration is going much better than we had planned,” Singh said. “The international platform has been a real asset when we have been negotiating book deals.” Singh indicated they have already extracted “over $20 million of synergies coming out of that deal,” even though “we didn’t […]
