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- 1984-1985 (Creation)
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Contains correspondence and reports relating to the formulation and review of the 1985/6 Observer budget. Includes: timetables, agreed assumptions and cost centre information used to put together the budget; forecast, spending, including capital expenditure (including the planned purchase of an Amstrad computer), and draft budget figures; memorandums relating to overspends (including libel costs) and to planned and effected cost savings; trading results for the first quarter of 1985/6 and memorandums relating to inserts provison and costs and redundancy provision.
Also includes: a bound copy of the display advertising department budget for 1985/6 and 3 draft copies of the full budget from August and September 1985 (including the copies sent to Lonrho and to the Board for approval).
Primary Correspondents include: Roger Harrison, John Nuttall-Smith, David Bishop, Nick Morrell, Brian S Blelloch and William Millinship.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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Redundacy memo closed until 2036.
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- Millinship; William Henry George (1929-2010); journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Bishop; David J (fl.1980); director of finance of The Observer (Subject)
- Nuttall-Smith; John; Observer employee (Subject)
- Morrell; Nicholas J; chief executive of The Observer (Subject)