Rooi Rose, Bona, Your Family, and 7 More Magazines to Close Doors

The publishers of Rooi Rose and numerous other once popular magazines today announced they would no longer be publishing those titles, barely a week after the publishers of Cosmopolitan and House & Leisure also said they were closing.

Caxton Magazines will no longer be publishing Bona, Country Life, Essentials, Food & Home, Garden & Home, People, Rooi Rose, Vrouekeur, Woman & Home, Your Family. Two of its titles not mentioned in the list of closures are Farmers Weekly and Living and Loving. The publishing house said it had begun a process of ending its publication of the magazines but was open to others taking over the titles.

Last week, Associated Magazines, publishers of Cosmopolitan, House & Leisure, Good Housekeeping and Women on Wheels, announced their closure.

The board of directors of Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Limited said in a statement, “The high level of cancellations of advertising in the period leading up and over the lockdown period has already had a major impact on trading aggravated by the concern that this revenue will be permanently lost and will place serious extra pressure on the magazine business and the group as a whole.”