Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited. The report includes: an introduction by the Chairman of the Directors, Laurence Prestwich Scott; the balance sheet and an analysis of what it shows; the profit and loss acounts and guidance on what to look for in these accounts; a breakdown of revenue and expenditure entitled 'How each £ comes and goes'; and 'Evening News -Sales and sizes' and 'the Guardian - Sales and sizes' which provides details of sales and the size of eidtorial and advertisement content. Also included for both the Manchester Evening News and the Guardian are illustrated results of surveys done by the Evening News Advertising Bureau and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising about the readership of the two papers.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited. The report includes: an introduction by the Chairman of the Directors, Laurence Prestwich Scott; graphs shwoing the sales of the Guardian and the Manchester Evening News and comparisons with the sales of their competitor newspapers; an analysis of changes facing the company; extracts from the 1955-6 working report; Review of the Financial Year; a breakdown of revenue and expenditure entitled 'How each £ comes and goes'; graphs showing advertising revenue; accounts including the Profit and Loss account; and 'Evening News Sizes' and 'the Guardian Sizes' which provide details of the size of editorial and advertisement content. Also included in the report is a section entitled 'Transport' which contains a discussion of the company's transport department and accompanying graphs.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited from 5 January 1967. This report takes a different format from a usual working report and the first page explains that this is a special issue of the working report to provide an up-to-date account of financial difficulites experienced by the company in a climate of falling advertising. The report is written by the Chairman of the Directors, Laurence Prestwich Scott and it includes sections on the company's finance, prospects, efficiency and pupose, present proposals, and three quotations from the statement made by Laurence Prestwich Scott at the meeting with the Printed & Kindred Trades Federation (P& KTF) on 6 December 1966.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited for 1966-7. The report includes: an introduction by the Chairman of the Directors, Laurence Prestwich Scott; details of the opening of the Manchester Sight and Sound Centre as a part of the Manchester Evening News Business Service, 1966-7; graphs shwoing the sales of the Guardian and the Manchester Evening News and comparisons with the sales of their competitor newspapers; the Review of the Financial Year; the accounts including the balance sheet and the profit and loss account; a section entitled 'Our New Organisation' which lists senior personnel of the company and the newspapers; and a section entitled 'Publicity Campaigns' which discusses advertising strategies over the past year.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited. Including: an introduction by L P Scott; graphs and tables of the Guardian's circulation; balance sheets; profit and loss account; a graph of the number of Guardian employees between 1947-62; review of the financial year; a description of the "crisis year" at the Evening Chronicle; graphs of the evening paper sales; evening advertising; A retrospective on the first year in the London offices; Guardian sizes and advertising and a graph showing the total amount of Newsprint used 1947-62.
The back page features a colour coded map demonstrating the combined circulation coverage of the Manchester Evening Newspapers.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
Working report of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited and North News Limited.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited
PA management consultants' reports on North News Ltd (advertising department), 1965, 1966, 1967, on the Guardian (advertising department), 1967 and on The National Readership Survey (summary: circulation and readership, and a glossary of marketing terms).
Miscellaneous publications: 'The Guardian as a Product' (The London Press Exchange Ltd., 30 April 1964);'Newspaper readership in the City of London' (c. 1958); 'Report on Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd' (Centre d'Etudes Industrielles, 20 January 1964) and The Architects' Journal (10 June 1931), containing an article on 'The New Manchester Guardian Buildings'.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott
File containing correspondence and papers regarding the formation of Northprint Manchester with Associated Newspapers, and the subsequent printing of the Manchester Evening News and the Guardian at Deansgate, Manchester.
Contents include a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association made 12 July 1968, for Northprint Manchester Limited (Appendix 1), a copy of the Formation Agreement made between North News, MEN, GNL and Associated Newspapers, 23 July 1968 (Appendix 2) and a paper titled Deansgate Project, Crown Square Development, Development Division (Appendix 3); and correspondence with Leach, Rhodes & Walker, Architects.
Also included are numbers 5 and 6 (April and August 1970) issues of Northprint News, containing publicised information relating to the move and a pamphlet titled 'Welcome to Deansgate', written and given to all employees.
Some undated.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott