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- 1958 (Creation)
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1 booklet
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Working report of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited. The report features a list of directors; an introduction by LP Scott including tributes to Tom Jackson and Donny Davies and notice of the establishing of Anglia Television Ltd; balance sheet; profit and loss account; appropriation account; a review of the financial year including a breakdown of how each £1 of revenue was received and spent; a history of the Survey of Industry, discontinued in March 1958; Manchester Evening News mobile stop press printing units (vehicles which printed the latest edition of the newspaper); report on newspaper sizes (total pages) including comparison of Guardian and Evening News and their competitors and advertising volume (columns per editorial and classified and display advertising); report and graphs of newspaper sales for MEN, Guardian and Guardian Weekly including the impact of reporting on Suez; report on how the MEN is written; a breakdown of staff by gender, department and age, with comparison of previous years, and the number of pensioners; and details of the materials used by the company, 1957-58.
The back cover has a report on the number of accidents among employees.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
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- Guardian Media Group plc (1907-); newspaper proprietor (Subject)
- Davies; HD (1892-1958); sportsman, journalist and broadcaster (Subject)
- Scott; Laurence Prestwich (1909-1983); chairman of the Manchester Guardian & Evening News Ltd (Subject)
- Jackson; Tom (?-1958); sports journalist (Subject)
- Anglia Television Limited (1959-); independent television broadcasting company (Subject)