Bee Biz
The New International Magazine for Commercial Beekeepers
 
28th February 1995
 
Dear BEE-L s
 
The first issue of the new international magazine Bee Biz will be out in August
in time for Apimondia 95 in Switzerland. This is a magazine in English by
commercial beekeepers for commercial beekeepers and anyone interested in the
business of bees. It will get away from the amateur, and avoid the purely
scientific, to concentrate on the one down-to-earth theme - how to make a better
living from bees. Regardless of local circumstances, many of the problems and
challenges faced by beekeepers in business are similar around the world. Bee Biz
contributors will be looking for successful strategies, solutions and insights
from the English-speaking countries and elsewhere for its readers.  It will be
published three times a year
 
The editorial team includes prominent names - Cliff van Eaton from New Zealand,
Mrs L McGregor from South Africa, Joe Moffett from the USA, Mary Rede Lye from
Canada and Anne Middleditch from the UK. An editor from Australia is in the
process of appointment.Their role is to bring the best ideas from innovative and
successful commercial beekeepers in their countries. Overall editing will be by
Matthew Allan in the UK and publication will be by Northern Bee Books,
well-known for their British journal,the Beekeepers Quarterly.
 
Besides usual beekeeping management, the magazine will look at marketing,
packaging, mechanisation, and ways of diversifying to increase profitability,
such as tourist potential, wax, pollen, propolis, venom, cosmetics and candles.
National and international trade and prices will be reported and the products of
leading manufacturers appraised. Educational and employment opportunities will
also be featured.
 
Contributions, comments and correspondence are welcome. and should be submitted
to the appropriate corresponding editor. as below
 
EDITOR  Matthew J Allen, BSc, NDB 41 George Street, Eastleigh, Hants  SO50 9BT,
U.K.                                      1703 617969
Corresponding Editors
New Zealand Cliff van Eaton, MAF Quality Management, Private Bag, Tauranga. New
Zealand Phone 010 64 75 78 2069. Fax 010 64 7578 8429. email
[log in to unmask]  South Africa  Mrs L McGregor,Canowie Farm,
Box 142,  Ixopo 4630, Natal, South Africa Tel 010 27 336 341891 America  Joe
Moeffett, RR3 Box 1760, Cushing, Olkahoma  74023     Phone 0101 405 372 6338
Home 0101  918 372 4593 Canada  Mary Rede Lye , 196 Stephens Street,  Richmond
Hill, Ontario L4C 5P1  0101 905 884 6086       Fax 0101 905 884 6322  UK   Ann
Middleditch, Rock View, North Lane, Norham, Berwick -upon-Tweed   TD15 2LG
Phone 1289 382498 (h) 1289 382498 (w)
 
 
Jeremy Burbidge
Publisher,  Bee Biz/ The Beekeepers Quarterly
 NORTHERN BEE BOOKS, SCOUT BOTTOM FARM, MYTHOLMROYD, HEBDEN BRIDGE, HX7 5JS,
U.K.
Phone (1422) 882751
Fax (1422) 886157
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