Former Flare publisher David Hamilton named publisher of Hello! Canada

David Hamilton, after a 9-month hiatus following his departure from a long tenure as Publisher of Flare magazine, has been named publisher of Hello! Canada magazine by Rogers Publishing Limited. He starts officially next week.

"We are very happy that David will be leading the Hello! Canada team in the role of Publisher," said Marc Blondeau, Senior-Vice President, Consumer Publishing, Rogers Publishing Limited, in a press release. "His impressive track record of success in publishing and marketing will allow us to build on the tremendous successes we've seen in bringing this world-renowned magazine to the Canadian marketplace."

Hello! Canada is a franchise of a worldwide company, with about 8 million circulation in 100 countries, according to a release. The U.K. edition of Hello! was launched in 1988, creating the celebrity magazine marketplace in that country, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish magazine Hola!, which first debuted in 1944.

Hello! Canada recently announced that it guarantees advertisers an average circulation of 45,000 copies a week.