How long until this spreads to the City? The New York Times reports that Occupy Wall Street has been a financial stimulus package of its own for the security industry... more
Predictions of the death of the Sunday newspaper market were greatly exaggerated, according to the boss of Britain's biggest print distributor, who brushed off the impact of the closure of the News of the World... more
Two of Britain's largest newspaper groups saw their shares climb the stock market today amid speculation their publications will benefit from the shock closure of the News of the World.... more
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
Dawsons Holdings, once one of the biggest names in newspaper, magazine and book distribution, is set to be consigned to history as it announces a recommended £20 million sale to rival Smiths News... more
Half-year results showed why Kate Swann gets linked with most top retail jobs, even though the party line is that she plans to see through her reinvention of WH Smith... more
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
John Menzies has spent the summer making hay while one of its major competitors in the newspapers and magazines distribution business went under ... more
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
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
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
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
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
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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