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Notes in preparation for Board meetings including reports; minutes of previous meetings; supplementary material.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Brian Taylor and Mark Eliot (Small business feature)
Creator: Hamilton-West; Edward (1933-2011); photographer

Contains bound copies of Board meeting documents for 30 January, 30 April, 19 June, 5 November 1984; interim reports to the Board; dates of Board meetings for 1985; statement for release on 24 April by the Independent Directors concerning article by Donald Trelford on Zimbabwe and subsequent dispute.

Includes copies of circulated items for the meetings: minutes of previous Board meetings; minutes of Sealing Committee meetings; Chief Executive's reports; managers' reports; editorial reports; production, circulation, cash flow and advertising reports; trading results.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Trelford's copies of board minutes and agenda papers. For signed minutes 1917 to 1962 see OBS/1/1/1/.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Minutes of Board meetings from the establishment of the Observer as a limited company in 1917. Contains signed minutes from 1917 to 1962. For copies of board minutes and papers from 1977 to 1993 see papers of Donald Trelford (OBS/6/1/1/2/1)

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) from 21 November 1967 (first meeting) until 18 December 1974. Not indexed.
Meetings were held at 192 Grays Inn Road, London or 3 Cross Street, Manchester.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; Alastair Hetherington; MGA Jack; HG Milner; GP Taylor; WH Thomas; JC Markwick; Stanley Porter; BLB Hutchings (Lovell, White & King); JJT Stephens (Lovell, White & King); FA Ravenscroft (Cooper Bros & Co); MA Anderson; JHM Kelvie; HC Thompson; JM Cole; RS Rix; NH Thompson; and HJ Abbiss.

The first meeting of the board of directors records the initial administration of the new company including: the incorporation of the company; appointment of directors and secretary; recording of the registered office of the company as 3 Cross Street, Manchester; recording of the company bank account to be opened; recording the common seal of the company (impressed into minutes); and the transfer of shares and the register of members.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales and promotions; advertisement sales; production (including Lancashire Colour Printers and newsprint supplies); the company's financial position and budget; editorial appointments; strategy and development.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording):
Guardian Weekly (1967); Guardian Business Services (1967); impact of devaluation of pound sterling (1967); price increases (1968); acquisitions and shares; editorial strategy (spring 1968); investigation of colour printing (1968); content aimed at women (1968); new building at Deansgate, Manchester (1968); facsimile transmission (1968); Autumn Plans including staff and layout changes - supporting paper (July 1968); readership figures; facsimile production (1968); negotiations with NUJ/NPA (1968); young readers (1968); university exam results (1969); Film 'News Story' (1969); Saturday papers (1969); Guardian's 150th anniversary (1970); Northprint Ltd (1970); wholesalers dispute (1970); commercial radio (1971); European syndication (1971); group structure (1972); investigations into Guardian sharing The Observer's premises at Printing House Square, London (1972); Guardian Study Vacations (part of Guardian Business Services) (1972); typeface change (1973); Gemini News Service (1973); impact of Price Commission (1973); fuel supplies for distribution (1973); shortening working weeks (1973); London printing, contract with The Times (1973); Peter Preston's visit to USA to investigate new technology production (1974).

The minutes of two meetings with separate item numbering sequences are also filed in this volume:
29 December 1967: Extraordinary General Meeting of GNL, 3 Cross Street, Manchester, concerning the increasing of the capital of the company.
5 April 1973: Meeting of a sub-committee of GNL, 192 Grays Inn Road, London, concerning the proposal to purchase Gemini News Service.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 23 January 1975 until 29 November 1983. Meetings were held at 192 Gray's Inn Road until 26 August 1976 and were subsequently held at 119 Farringdon Road. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings (Chairman); GP Taylor; Alastair Hetherington; JM Cole; MGA Jack; JC Markwick; HJ Abbiss; RS Rix; S Porter; N Thompson; Peter Preston; Brian Jones; Ian S Ashcroft; DJ McKie; NW Butters; GW Thompson; J Dixey; A Keen.

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 unions.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording): London Printing (1975); wage awards (1976); the move to Farringdon Road (1976); Guardian Weekly (1978); Times Newspaper situation re Guardian printing in Gray's Inn Road (1978); Timehands/Imperial Chapel wage demands (1979); Guardian attitude to NPA (1979); 1980 Committee (1980); proposed printing of Guardian at the Observer (1981); expansion of classifieds (1983); computer development (1983)

The following papers are bound with the minutes:
Recommendations to the Board of the 1980 'Ad Hoc' Committee concerning how GNL should recommence negotiations with NGA/Imperial Chapel, 28 June 1982, paper filed with minutes of 1 July 1982.
Composing Room Agreement, 17 May 1983.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

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

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 31 July 1989 - 26 April 1994. Meetings were held at 119 Farringdon Road. From June 1993 onwards includes minutes relating to both the Guardian and the Observer. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PJ Preston; JC Markwick; CA Marland; F Platt; CBG Baker; PJ Naismith; IS Ashcroft; HJ Roche; IW Wright; DIA Brook; J Fenby; DH Owen; 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/marketing; strategy and development; negotiations with NUJ.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording):
proposed purchase of inserting equipment (1989); appointment of attorneys in Spain in respect of proposed purchase of shares in Unidad Editorial, SA (1989); cover price increase (1990); reorganisation of Guardian and Manchester Evening News (GMEN) (1990); Education Guardian launch (1990); Guardian representative of the board of El Mundo (1990); colour printing (1990); policies for recession (1991); 'New developments' including changes to Saturday paper, expansion of Guardian Weekly into South Africa, increased investment in Fourth Estate, (1992); Weekend Guardian (1992); establishment of new IT department (1992); change of daily second section to tabloid formats (G2) (1992); GMEN's purchase of Observer and issues arrising from the acquisition (1993); Guardian trusteeship of London Student Radio (1994).
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Unsigned minutes of the meeting of the board of directors of Gemini News Service held on 29 January 1971. The minutes are primarily concerned with the financing of Gemini News Service.

'Spare copy' is handwritten on the front page.