Folder containing miscellaneous advertising records, including correspondence with W McMillan on advertising personnel (amongst other topics); 'Advertising Department Progress Report' by PA Management Consultants Ltd, 18 October 1967; diagram showing hierarchy of staff members, titled 'The Guardian Advertising Department'; ' memo regarding the appointment of Ronald Miller to a senior position within Anglia Television, November 1967; invitations sent out to various Advertising and Marketing companies, requesting their attendance at the Chairman's cocktail parties of 3 and 5 July, 1967, with replies; correspondence between LP Scott and Kenneth Searle and MacMillan, regarding ABC subscriptions and charitable causes, November 1966; information on advertising rates and comments on newspaper comparisons in the field, 1964; correspondence with AD George and Searle on advertising rates in the Sunday Times, July 1964 copy of 'The Journal of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce', including a highlighted article on The Social and Economic Context of Advertising; letter regarding a civil claim against the Guardian, with notes by Scott, February 1965; 'Foreign Advertisement Department', figures covering the financial year April 1963 - March 1964; 'General Report on the Response to the Public Appointment Columns of the Manchester Guardian', February 1948; letters on classified advertising rates; 'Display Advertisement Revenue, Increases for 1953 over 1952' by Scott, 1 March 1954; 'Joining the Guardian', booklet written for new employees, containing charts showing the staff heirarchy for different departments, June 1969.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott
Monthly and six monthly reports compiled for the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) on the average daily net sales of the Manchester Guardian and Manchester Guardian Weekly.
Creator: Manchester Guardian, Circulation department
Monthly and six monthly reports compiled for the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) on the average daily net sales of the Manchester Guardian and Manchester Guardian Weekly.
Creator: Manchester Guardian, Circulation department
Monthly and six monthly reports compiled for the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) on the average daily net sales of the Guardian and Manchester Guardian Weekly.
Creator: The Guardian, Circulation department
Monthly and six monthly reports compiled for the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) on the average daily net sales of the Guardian and Guardian Weekly. The reports in this volume are arranged in reverse chronological order.
Included in this volume are 27 copy letters mostly from MGA Jack, Circulation Director, to the auditors Cooper Brothers & Co and to the ABC dated 27 July 1967- 17 December 1970 relating to adjustments made to the accounting of average daily net sales to take into consideration shortfalls in production or distribution largely due to industrial disputes. Also attached is an appendix explaining how the figures in the reports are calculated.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited, Circulation department
Monthly reports compiled for the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) on the average daily net sales of the Guardian and the Manchester Guardian Weekly. Included in the report are figures for the total despatches, the number of free copies, the number sold at less than full price and the number of postal subscriptions. The reports covering the period January 1965- December 1967 are not included in the collection.
Creator: Manchester Guardian, Circulation department
File containing certificates of average net sales from the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), signed by the director or secretary of the ABC. File compiled by Roger Harrison between 1971 and 1982. Although the certificates themselves date from 1940-1982 the figures contained go back to 1925. Also contains internal memorandum and reports related to the net sales figures released from the ABC.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
General file regarding distribution, sales and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC). Contains correspondence, memorandums and reports concerning: sales figures in detail; the effect of industrial action; disruption to sales caused by weather conditions; annual reports and newsletters from the ABC; ABC rules; membership of the ABC.
Also contains net sales certificates from the early 1940s.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; George Nicholson; Tristan Jones; John E Berridge.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
ABC figures for national daily newspapers (October 1984 - October 1991), internal sales figures, internal report showing effect of launch of The Independent on the Guardian's sales (1990), and a summary of the national readership survey April - September 1990.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)