Playboy Warned Of Delisting From NYSE

GOODBYE Playboy? Can the brand survive its founder and internet porn?

Playboy Enterprises has received a warning notice of possible delisting from the New York Stock Exchange.

The company was told it is not in compliance with minimum listing criteria, because its average market capitalization and shareholders’ equity over a 30-day period were below $75 million, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Playboy said it will submit a plan within 45 days addressing how it will meet standards within the next 18 months.

When punters can buy a copy of Nuts for less than half the price of Playboy, and get a racier cover on a women’s magazine or car mag, it’s hard to see how the magaziner can survive. Does it go upmarket? Well, no - it’s  using cheaper paper.

STRUGGLING Playboy magazine is putting a guy on the cover for only the ninth time in the monthly’s 56-year history.

Men on the cover of Playboy? Have the magazine’s dying readership rubbed themselves blind?

Old Mr Anorak commends to your attneions, the Playboy book of Short Stories, featuring porn-breaks from the likes of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Saul Bellow.

Good writing and outlast porn. But Playboy has neither…

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Anorak

Posted: 25th, April 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink