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Northshore Magazine Celebrates the Fourth Annual “Best of North Shore” (BONS) Awards in its Anniversary Issue

Regional lifestyle magazine published by RMS Media Group announces the annual BONS issue featuring the readers’ and editors’ picks for the best places to eat, drink, play, stay, get pampered, and more on the North Shore of Boston for 2009

(BOSTON) July 16, 2009 – Looking for the perfect spot for tapas and sangria or the ultimate place to pamper your pooch? The August/September 2009 issue of Northshore magazine (http://www.nshoremag.com) features picks for the North Shore of Boston’s best food, nightlife, entertainment venues, shopping, spas, and more. The current issue also celebrates four years under RMS Media Group’s publishing umbrella.

The magazine’s fourth annual “Best of the North Shore” (BONS) issue delivers a comprehensive listing of the North Shore’s “best of the best” across five major categories and numerous sub-categories; ranging from casual dining to cocktails, compiled by Northshore and readers of Northshore.

“The BONS issue is our most popular issue every year and one in which we take an incredible amount of pride publishing,” says Northshore Editor and Director of New Media Jack Morris. “This year it was a real pleasure working alongside our readers and thanks to their overwhelming response to our online polling, we’ve been able to select over 200 winners. I can only imagine what it will be like next year.”

Who made this year’s list?  Included in the 2009 picks for BONS Awards are:

Best Burger: Alchemy Café & Bistro, Gloucester (alchemybistro.com)

Best Watches: Royal Jewelers, Andover (royaljewelers.com)

Best Massage: Living Well, Salem (livingwellsalem.com)

Best Bar Scene: Strega, Salem (stregasalem.com)

Best Baby Clothing: Lester Harry’s, Marblehead (lesterharrys.com)

For the full listing of the 2009 selections, including the readers’ choices for Best of the North Shore, visit http://nshoremag.com/bons-2009/.

About Northshore Magazine
Published six times per year by RMS Media Group (RMS), Northshore Magazine is a regional lifestyle magazine exclusively for the North Shore of Massachusetts.  Northshore magazine celebrates the good life found throughout Essex County. It is distributed to more than 30,000 North Shore residents and available on select newsstands.  For more information or to subscribe, visit http://www.nshoremag.com or call 978-623-0029.

About RMS Media Group
Based in Andover, MA, RMS Media Group (RMS) is a leading provider of turnkey production solutions and sales services for upscale magazines and the custom publishing business. Its inaugural title, Northshore magazine, is an upscale lifestyle magazine for the North Shore of Massachusetts. RMS also publishes a national title, Ocean Home magazine, and lends its publishing and sales expertise to top brands and the custom publications they produce. For more information visit http://www.rmsmediagroup.com or call 978-623-8020.
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Media Contact: Melissa C. Gillespie

Northshore Magazine Increases Staff and Realizes Sales Growth Despite Down Economy, Rising Printing Costs, and Slumping Publishing Industry

(ANDOVER, MA) July 1, 2009 – Northshore magazine, a regional lifestyle magazine for the North Shore of Boston, Massachusetts, has increased its staff and realized a growth in second quarter 2009 sales over its second quarter 2008 sales. In the past year, the Andover-based magazine published by RMS Media Group has expanded its staff to include a director of new media, new creative director, more designers, and pumped up its sales staff.  Further, the North Shore, MA publication has hit its advertising, circulation, and production targets for the first half of 2009, and its July/August issue was the publication’s most successful issue to date, in terms of ad revenue.

Comments publishing veteran and RMS Media Group’s president, Rick Sedler, “We didn’t cut our budget, but rather expanded our team to pick up key players available in a tough economy. The move to increase budget was a risky and bold one in a difficult economy, but clearly this strategy is starting to pay off and leaves us in a great position for when the economy rebounds.”

For more information, visit www.nshoremag.com or call 978-623-0029.

About Northshore magazine

Northshore magazine is a regional lifestyle magazine for the North Shore of Boston, Massachusetts. It is published bi-monthly by RMS Media Group (RMS), a leading provider of turnkey publishing solutions and sales services for upscale magazines and the custom publishing business. The publication is based in Andover, MA. For more information, visit www.nshoremag.com or call 978-623-0029.