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New Look's float will be in dry dock for a good while

09.06.11
Alittle over a year ago, I dissed the plans for a £1.7 billion flotation of New Look on the highly scientific grounds of where my teenage daughters liked to use my credit card. They preferred Primark at one end of Oxford Street and Top Shop at the other... more

Smiths News boss upbeat after busy year

22.10.09
The country’s biggest distributor of newspapers and magazines, Smiths News, has had a hectic year ... more

OFT holds back news referral

24.09.09
The Office of Fair Trading today said it would not be referring the massively consolidating newspaper and magazines distribution industry to the Competition Commission despite suspicions of potential monopolistic behaviour ... more

Dawson on slide as more contracts lost

24.03.09
Shares in Dawson Holdings slumped again today after the newspaper and magazine distributor said it has now lost four key contracts in two weeks... more


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