Hachette Closes Metropolitan Home, Focusing Instead On Elle Decor

Alain Lemarchand, President & CEO, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. announced yesterday that the company will discontinue publication of Metropolitan Home magazine with the December 2009 issue as the last edition. In the current economic climate it made little sense for the publisher to carry two upscale titles left to fight for the same advertisers, so Hachette will instead focus on Elle Decor moving forward.