The Brooklands Group is enjoying an early summer thanks to a popular home relocation programme.

The Forest Row publisher produces the magazine for Channel 4's A Place In The Sun.

Since its launch last month, sales of the publication have exceeded revenue targets by 300 per cent, with about 45,000 copies bought.

Managing director Darren Styles said the deal with Channel 4, secured with backing from Lloyds TSB, was one of the most important in the group's history.

Brooklands, which now had a £7 million turnover, had performed well over the past 18 months which had been unstable for the industry as a whole.

Monday April 26, 2004