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- 1974-1981 (Creation)
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2 files
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File on the Monopolies Commission regarding the transfer of the Observer to Lonrho.
File 1 (RH)
Contains correspondence, memorandum and reports concerning: staff organograms; accounts; balance sheets; trading forecasts; advertising yields; projections; cost centre structure; budget changes; cashflow improvement plans; circulation figures; proxy votes for AGM; reconcilliation of accounts; excerpts from Fair Trading Act 1973; statement on the verdict; consent to variation of class rights attached to shares; insurance arrangements; meeting arrangements; staffing levels;
Primary correspondents include Roger Harrison and BR Gravatt of the Monopolies Commission.
File 2 (Spare)
Contains correpondence with the Monopolies Commission and copies of information provided to the Commission in 1981 about the Observer including statutory and management accounts; staff employment figures; trading forecasts; budgets; investment by ARCO; loan arangements; bank guarantee; effect on profitability of marginal changes in circulation volume and rate card.
Primary correspondents include Ronald Holmes and BR Gravatt of the Monopolies Commission.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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