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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

Menzies lift as rival folds

19.08.09
John Menzies has spent the summer making hay while one of its major competitors in the newspapers and magazines distribution business went under ... more

Dawson sells assets to Smiths and Menzies

03.08.09
More than two thousand jobs in the newspaper distribution industry have been saved after Dawson News sold most of its assets to rivals Smiths News and John Menzies... more

Dawson's decline is Smiths News' gain

16.07.09
Newspapers and magazines distributor Smiths News is bucking the recession with a 7.1% rise in group revenues in recent months, thanks in part to the inexorable decline of smaller rival Dawson ... more

Dawson shut out as Smiths and Menzies win Mirror deal

29.05.09
Forget newspaper wars - the battle to get your daily paper into the shops is just as vicious as anything the redtops can hurl at each other ... more

Millard takes over top job at Halfords

29.05.09
SatNav to bicycles retailer Halfords has recruited Dennis Millard as its new chairman to replace Richard Pym who went off to run the ill-fated Bradford & Bingley last August ... more

Telegraph deal in the bag for Smiths News

03.04.09
Newspaper and magazine wholesaler Smiths News has won its fifth major contract in a month, signing a £136 million-a-year deal to distribute the Daily and Sunday Telegraph until 2014... more

Bloomsbury beats forecasts despite a spell without Potter

31.03.09
Bloomsbury Publishing showed that there is life after Harry Potter as it comfortably beat City profit forecasts... 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

Readers cutting back on mags

16.10.08
Services: Readers are giving up their monthly magazines in the recession, latest figures reveal... more

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