Function and Structure
Dawson News delivers newspapers and magazines to circa 14,000 UK news retailers, seven days a week, 364 days a year. We have 2,450 employees who work out of 15 full branches, 14 sub-depots and the Head Office based in Croydon.
These branches run a fleet of 900 vehicles, which make 5 million deliveries in a typical year, covering 18 million miles!
Dawson News has negotiated secure long-term contracts with all of the major newspaper publishers as well as the most influential magazine distributors. These contracts represent over 90% of the total Dawson News turnover.
The 14,000 retailers that we service can be broken down as follows;
The company handles over 5000 newspapers and magazines in the following categories;
20%
Dawson News is the major profit contributor in the Dawson Holdings Group with over 1 billion individual copy sales each year contributing £750 million in Retail Sales Value (RSV).
This currently gives Dawson News a 20% share of the UK newspaper and magazine market; a market share which has trebled in the last decade.
