Grimes named Glamour publisher

By Stephen McKinley

Suzanne Grimes has been named vice president and publisher of Glamour magazine, a Conde Nast publication. Glamour is one of Conde Nast’s top money-making magazines, and is believed to draw more than $30 million a year in sales. It is one of the leading women’s magazines in the country.

Steven T. Florio, Conde Nast Publications CEO and president, said that since May 2000 Grimes’s work as publisher of Allure magazine was "a terrific job. We are very happy that she will take on her third magazine at Cande Nast as publisher of Glamour," he said.

Before her time at Allure magazine, Grimes was the founding publisher of Women’s Sports and Fitness magazine when it launched in October 1997. She attended Georgetown University, where she graduated cum laude, then worked for a time with her father at Grimes Travel Agency.

She began her publishing career with a stint at The New York Times Company as an account manager, then as advertising director of Success magazine.

Before moving to Conde Nast, Grimes, who is a niece of Echo publisher Claire Grimes, worked as vice president and publisher of TV Guide, overseeing revenues of nearly $400 million a year. She lives in Westchester with her two sons.