Death of Frans van Miert, founder of Mix

Frans van Miert (photo), founder of the Netherlands magazine Mix, died on 20 September aged 81. Born in 1931 as the son of a hardware dealing family in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, he entered on a career in journalism early on and consequently earned great respect, in Germany inter alia, as the publisher of a variety of trade magazines in the fields of hardware, do-it-yourself and gardening. Even after his retirement in 2002 he remained loyal to the industry.