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About Spear’s WEALTH, Business & Culture

Spear’s is the multi-award-winning wealth management

and luxury lifestyle media brand whose flagship magazine
has become a must-read for the ultra-high-net-worth
(UHNW) community.
Described as a cross between Forbes and Vanity Fair, with its own wit and outlook,
it is also required reading for the affluent financial services community, including
the bankers, lawyers and family offices who advise the wealthy.
Since its launch in 2006, Spear’s and its
events have established themselves as ART, TRAVEL & LUXURY
Europe’s leading wealth management
“A cross between
authorities. Using print, digital, events, Forbes and Vanity Fair”
awards and research-based products Ben Goldsmith
and services, Spear’s is uniquely placed
to connect financial and luxury brands
to this exclusive and elusive audience. “Spear’s is for anybody
who wants to make
“My favourite magazine” money - and keep it ”
Sir Terence Conran Elizabeth Hurley

Spear’s Readers SPEAR’S INDICES

Spear’s 62,000 readers are some of the wealthiest in the history of media:
• The average Spear’s reader has a net worth (exlcuding primary residence)
of £5.5 million ($8.8 million) and an average annual income of £780,000.
• 77% of readers enjoy our range and style of articles
• 63% think we are an authoritative source of information and analysis
• 54% have set up their own company
• They are philanthropists, collectors of art, wine, watches and jewellery
and users of a wide range of luxury services.
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writing about business and sustainability.

Our contributors include:
John Arlidge, Sunday Times; Nick Foulkes, author and dandy; William Sitwell,
editor of Waitrose Food; Luke Johnson, former chairman of Channel 4;
Clive Aslet, editor-at-large of Country Life; Anne McElvoy, The Economist;
Alessandro Tomé, Spear’s Discriminator; Martin Vander Weyer, business editor
of The Spectator; cultural commentator Peter York; Andrew Roberts, acclaimed Our covers are drawn by Adam Dant, who won
historian;author Sam Leith; and Anthony Haden-Guest, legendary journalist, the Jerwood Prize and has been called ‘a Hogarth
cartoonist and author. for the twenty-first century’ by the Guardian.
Spear’s founder and editor at large is William Cash, an authority on the super-rich
who regularly appears on TV and radio as a media and wealth commentator. 24,000 62,000*
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Mailed exclusively to Spear’s high-net-worth
subscriber database

Distributed onboard BA First Class cabins; in first class

UK airport travel lounges; at the World Economic Forum,
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On newsstands which consist of 50 WHS Travel stores

in airports and mainline stations, and 200 targeted
independent stores around London for news and
current affairs
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Bespoke Inserts (invitations, supplements, catalogues)
Special Gatefolds Prices available on request.

SIZES (WxH) Full Page Half Page Vertical Half Page Horizontal SPEAR’S MEDIA SCHEDULE 2018
Issue/
Trim 210 x 260mm 105 x 260mm 210 x 130mm Edition
PUBLICATION MONTH RELEASE DATE COPY DEADLINE

Bleed 216 x 266mm 111 x 266mm 216 x 136mm

60 Jan/Feb 2018 15th December 2017 18th November 2017
Type Area 190 x 240mm 80 x 240mm 190 x 105mm 61 Mar/Apr 2018 21st February 2018 16th January 2018
62 May/Jun 2018 19th April 2018 15th March 2018
63 Jul/Aug 2018 18th June 2018 17th May 2018
64 Sept/Oct 2018 20th August 2018 23rd July 2018
65 Nov/Dec 2018 22nd October 2018 24th September 2018
66 Jan/Feb 2019 17th December 2018 29th November 2018
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