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Contains records, including management administration, accounts and publications relating to African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited and GeminiScan Limited, subsidiary companies of Gemini News Service Limited, 1962-1976.

Administrative/Biographical history: Following its successful launch in January 1967, Gemini quickly expanded and diversified its operations. In 1968, Gemini established GeminiScan, a design and publishing company, which produced educational datakits displaying complex information in an easily understandable form, and supplied graphics to accompany Gemini articles. In 1969, Gemini took control of African Buyer and Trader, and re-styled its principle publication, African Development, into a popular monthly magazine. In the 1970s, following a prolonged period of severe financial difficulty cumulating in the take over of the Service by the Guardian newspaper in 1973, Gemini was forced to sell its shares in and eventually fully separate from its subsidiary companies.
Creator: African Buyer and Trader Limited; 1962-; publisher

Records relating to African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited, 1962-1976, including management administration records, 1962-1976, (GEM/9/1/1) and accounts, 1970-1973, (GEM/9/1/2).
Creator: African Buyer and Trader Limited; 1962-; publisher

Contains a file of general administrative records relating to the management of African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited, 1962-1976, (GEM/9/1/1/1).
Creator: African Buyer and Trader Limited; 1962-; publisher

Records relating to the management of African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited under Gemini News Service, 1962-1976. This includes: a photocopy of the memorandum and articles of association, 5 September 1962; Company profile, including details of the allocation of shares in the Company, 1969; financial records, including a list of advertising costs, 1969, four year profit and loss summary, 1970-1974 and a profit and loss statement for 1976; memorandum from Peter Clarke (graphic artist), to the directors of African Buyer and Trader outlining his suggestions for changes to the format of the Company's primary publication 'African Development', 17 May 1971 and draft agreements and correspondence between Derek Ingram (Gemini editor and director of African Buyer and Trader Limited), Alan Rake (editor, African Development), Oliver Carruthers (Gemini co-founder and director of African Buyer and Trader Limited) and Malkin Cullis and Sumption (solicitors), concerning the sale of the Company's assets and shares, 1976.
Creator: African Buyer and Trader Limited; 1962-; Publisher

Annual report and accounts of African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited, 1970 (GEM/9/1/2/1) and 1973 (GEM/9/1/2/2).

The reports include: the management structure of African Buyer and Trader; directors' report; balance sheet; auditor's report; notes to the accounts; profit and loss account and trading and profit and loss account.

Two copies produced by Binder, Hamlyn and Co, chartered accountants, 8 St Bride Street, London, EC4.

One copy is signed by the accountant and African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited directors, Oliver Carruthers and Derek Ingram.

Produced by Binder, Hamlyn Singleton Fabian, chartered accountants, 8 St Bride Street, London, EC4.

Includes reports and correspondence relating to plans for the creation of a Commonwealth news agency, 1965, (GEM/1/1/1/1); correspondence concerning the foundation of Gemini News Service, 1966, (GEM/1/1/1/1); company profiles for Gemini and its subsidiary companies, GeminiScan and African Buyer and Trader, 1969, (GEM/1/1/1/2) and correspondence concerning the allocation of shares in Gemini (GEM/1/1/1/2), 1968-1970.

Company profiles, with balance sheets, for Gemini News Service and its subsidiary companies, African Buyer and Trader and GeminiScan, 1969. The profiles include details of the companies' services, share holdings, funds, operations and developments.

Also includes correspondence concerning loan agreements and the allocation of shares in Gemini, 1968-1969.

Group prospectus, marked as 'confidential', prepared by Gemini News Service for potential investors, June 1972.

The prospectus includes: company profiles; accounts and balance sheets for 1971; draft balance sheets for 1972; initial profit and loss projections for 1972 to 1973 and three year profit and loss projections to March 1975, for Gemini News Service Limited and its subsidiary companies, GeminiScan Limited and African Buyer and Trader Limited.

Also contains a list of comments on the prospectus by Oliver Carruthers, co-founder of Gemini, 1 June 1972.