Dossier 99 - Lonrho Ltd 1981-82

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General file regarding Lonrho Ltd.

Contains correspondence, memoranda and reports concerning: industrial action; the transfer of the newspaper; social occasions; a price increase; newspaper production under Rupert Murdoch; possible joint printing venture with The Telegraph; the establishment of an internal audit department; Lonrho Textile Products; staff figures; the mail order magazine; relations with the trade unions; budgets; Dutton-Forshaw Finance; computer systems; unsolds policy; the future of the Observer; an analysis of projected results; Lonrho advertising; staff discounts; Lonrho annual reports; research donations; management structure; fuel oil supplies; holiday working; staff contracts; capital expenditure; the Observer Buying Club; Countdown company; the sale of a house boat; printing outside of London; a book by Gavin Young; Stephen Pidgeon; libel cases; electricians; printing capacity; reporting schedules; staff pay; television and radio coverage; the sale of the Observer to George Outram & Company Limited; maintaining the journalistic standards and political independence of the Observer; trade union leaders; the sale of the Observer to Lonrho from Atlantic Richfield and the response of the trade unions; delivery vehicles; conditions of sale of the newspaper.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Terry Robinson; Alan Johnstone; Lonrho Ltd; Tiny Rowland; NATSOPA, trade union; Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT); National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Any correspondence containing privileged legal advice or details of living individuals' terms of employment may be closed.