People 7/15

Bryan Bixler has been promoted to vice president, business operations, and Matt Godzieba has been promoted to vice president, director of publishing operations systems.

Managing director Julie Pinkham, publishing veteran Ian Webster and the Hardie Grant family have bought out the shares in the company owned by founding investor Associated Media Investments.  They revamped board is led by Sandy Grant as the new chair. Fiona Hardie remains a director and is joined by new members Webster, Pinkham and Nick Hardie-Grant. Andrew Davis remains company secretary and coo. The company says sales are now over $100 million (AU), or approximately $74 million.

Yesterday’s Lunch had an erroneous headline on the story about the long-running legal dispute between the former Foundry Literary partners.