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TNT misses out on Shah contract

19th October 1985
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PARCELS CARRIER TNT is smarting from its lost chance of delivering Eddy Shah's new newspaper and Shah himself is setting up a revolutionary distribution system of his own.

Until last week (CM, October 12) TNT believed it was a strong contender for the newspaper's national distribution beginning in March.

It had even received authorisation for an extra 60 vehicles based at its Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester depot, for the operation.

TNT's general manager Alan Jones said that the first he had heard of Shah's rejection of the company was in the trade press. "It's a pity he didn't have the courtesy to tell me," Jones said.

But Shah's News UK company is already organising its own distribution system for• the paper — and eventually it could include the carriage of other magazines and parcels, its circulation sales manager Fred Bridge said.

Shah intends to bypass the print unions for its distribution and to set up 200 franchises Co distribute the paper.

Bridge has already received 1,000 applications — from distribution people, wholesalers and existing newsagents — for the franchises. Each chosen franchisee will receive 1:10,000 to 1:15,000 a year as a minimum, he said.

At the same time, News UK will take on all of its own drivers and vehicles to deliver the paper from the three print works, at London. Birmingham and Manchester, to the franchisees, he said.


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