Lovatts Publications

Infobox_Company
company_name = Lovatts Publications
company_type = Proprietary Limited
company_
slogan = "Think inside the square."
foundation = 1978, in Central Coast, NSW, Australia
location = Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
num_employees = 60+ (2007)
industry = Magazine Publishing
products = "BIG"
"Colossus"
"Super Sudoku"
"Addoku"
homepage = [http://www.lovatts.com.au/ lovatts.com.au]

Lovatts Publications, (or Lovatts) were established on the Central Coast in 1978, Lovatts Publications has developed into Australia's leading crossword and puzzle publishing company, with a range of 20 crossword and puzzle titles, 12 in the top 10% of magazines sales. [cite web |url=http://www.posbrowser.com.au/b2evolution/blogs/index.php?blog=3&title=lovatt_s_magazines&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 |title= Lovatt's magazines|accessdate=2008-09-16 |work= Bernard Zimmermann|publisher= POS Solutions |date=September 16th, 2008] A family owned and operated business started by James and Christine Lovatt, it has been an Australian success story ever since.

Christine Lovatt is best known for her cryptic and giant crosswords - particularly the "Colossus" and the "BIG". The Colossus appears each month in the Australian Women's Weekly and the BIG appears weekly in Woman's Day (a regular feature for the past twenty years). The Colossus and BIG are also titles in their magazine range.

Christine’s Cryptic is very popular and at times she has been named “the Cryptic Queen”.

Their puzzles also appear in NW, Qantas In-flight magazine, TV Week, Take 5 and various other publications sold throughout Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland

They are staunch supporters of various campaigns i.e. Red Cross, Life. Be in it., World Vision, National Literacy and Numeracy Week, MS Readathon and many smaller charity organisations. Christine has appeared regularly on many radio and television programs over the years and is often asked to speak at various functions.

Products

*BIG
(since 1993)The BIG CROSSWORD is the feature puzzle in this title. It has large easy-to-read grids and clues in large type. The magazine has 64 pages of puzzles and is established as their biggest selling monthly puzzle title.

*Colossus
(since 1989)The Colossus is the feature crossword puzzle in this title. This puzzle is the original giant crossword which brought the Lovatt style of puzzle to fame – 64 pages of crosswords with differing degrees of difficulty.

*Super Sudoku (since 2005)Lovatts were first with Sudoku in Australia and they still lead the pack. Sales of their various Sudoku and Kakuro titles lead both segments of the crossword marketplace.

Others:
*Holiday Collection (since 19??)
*MEGA Crosswords (since 19??)
*Codecracker Starhunts (since 19?? as "Starhunts")
*Handy Wordhunt (since Late 1995)
*Handy Crosswords (since 1996)
*Cluewords (since 1996)
*Puzzle Fun for Kids (since 1996 as "Kids Puzzle Fun")
*Findaword (since 1998)
*Handy Fill-Ins (since Late 1998)
*Handy Arrowords (since 2002)
*Handy Codecrackers (since 2003)
*Lovatts Variety Puzzles (since 2003)
*Handy Cryptic Crosswords (since 2004)
*Large Print Crosswords (since 2005 as "Easy To Read Large Print Crosswords")
*Handy Addoku (since 2006 as "Handy Kakuro")

References

1. ^ Moore, Steven, "What goes down well must come across", Australian Financial Review, June 2003 Issue

2. ^ "Lovatts Puzzles": [http://www.lovattspuzzles.com/about-lovatts.php About Lovatts] .

3. ^ Lovatt, Christine, [http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchange/Default.aspx?it=269&pg=97 Creating Crosswords] from Collins Soapbox, 7th December 2004, "HarperCollins"

4. ^ McCarthy, Joanne, "With Never A Cross Word", The Herald Weekender (Feature Article), March 29, 2003

Notes

External links

* [http://www.lovatts.com.au Lovatts Crosswords and Puzzles] Official Site
* [http://www.websitepuzzles.com/about-website-puzzles/company-profile.php Website puzzles] - Lovatts Company Profile