File 3 - Board minutes 1984-1989

1 volume

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 24 January 1984 - 31 July 1989. Meetings were held at 119 Farringdon Road. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; GP Taylor; JC Markwick; MGA Jack; Peter Preston; DJ McKie; J Dixey; IS Ashcroft; CA Dawood; CA Marland; LM Sanderson; HJ Roche; CW Szpac; F Platt; IW Wright; CBG Baker; JM Gordon; PJ Naismith; F Morris.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales/circulation; advertisement sales; production; the company's financial position and budget; editorial and board appointments and resignations; promotions; strategy and development; negotiations with NUJ.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording): Datasolve (1984); Away Day - Charing Cross Hotel - supporting paper (1984); Guardian Press Centre (1985); Isle of Dogs printing (1985); bank account opened in Zimbabwe (1985); Manchester printing (1985); Portsmouth printing (1986); refurbishment of 119 Farringdon Road - establishment of project committee (1986); transitional printing (1987); printing of Observer at Guardian Press Centre (1987); 50 page paper (1988); European printing (1988); cover price (1988); Saturday edition (1988); and proposed purchase of shares in Unidad Editorial SA (1989).

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Chronological

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