Newsflow aims for Hod share
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• National Freight Consortium Newsflow will be distributing 70% of national newspapers by the end of the year, according to its new development director John Sherman.
He expects to have contracts with the publishers of every Fleet Street title — except the four owned by Rupert Murdoch, which are distributed by TNT Newsfast.
This week Newsflow will announce details of a contract with Express Newspapers (Daily Express, Sunday Express and Star), exclusively predicted by Commercial Motor two weeks ago (CM 21-27 April). It will also outline its recentlywon deal with Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Both contracts are worth several million pounds a year.
Newsflow already distributes Robert Maxwell's Mirror Group tabloids, and is wooing the smaller-circulation qualities — the Guardian, Financial Times, and Daily Telegraph.
Newsflow says that it has appointed Sherman to expand the company into new business areas such as the distribution of provincial newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad. Given Newsflow's advanced distribution techniques developed in the UK, Sherman says he will be looking at opportunities to distribute foreign papers in their countries of origin, and drive Britain's roadbased newspaper distribution revolution into Europe.
Jim Gilchrist, who was previously national trucking manager, is to replace Sherman, who was previously operations director.