AUGUST TRADE NEWS Blundered legislation allows DVD traders to escape prosecution Independent retailers undercut by charities Small retailers could save consumers money Credit insurance top-up scheme Games Console wholesaler closed down Trading conditions see schoolwear retailer fold 'Vibrant independent retail sector' contributing to Cardiff success Retailers could save over £1,000 in small shops campaign BCC welcomes amendment to trade credit insurance scheme Local retailers are 'not sufficiently provisioned' Clothing sector sees sales boosted by weather Retailer Grants Fund to reduce crime Energy efficient appliances should be VAT free Margate shop closures “embarrassing” For every store opened, six close in N.Wales Retail sales on the increase Men spend more online than women Retailers to benefit from new PayPoint distribution deal Wholesale "duopoly" must be addressed JJB stores aquisition by Sports Direct referred Toy wholesaler fined for selling unsafe products Retailers and wholesalers find it difficult to prepare for bad weather Shetland wholesaler expands into Orkney Dawson News customers to receive full credits for wholesale stock Pre-pack retail insolvencies are hurting wholesale suppliers Dreary weather prompts interesting retail choices 19,000 shops left vacant in England and Wales Majority think local shops need more support Wholesaler rumoured to be cutting jobs European visitors to The Wholesaler please click here   What’s New At The Wholesaler UK New Categories added recently Wholesale Umbrellas Wholesale suppliments - Dietry and Nutritional Supplements   Trade News Archive 2009  January   February   March   April   May   June July August Subscribe to our newsletter   Go to The Wholesaler UK Directory 5th August 2009 Dawson News customers to receive full credits for wholesale stock The Association of News Retailing (ANR) has confirmed that retail customers with wholesale distribution business Dawson News will receive full credit for newspapers and magazine supplied to them by the company after its drop into administration. Most of the business has already been purchased by rival wholesalers Smiths News and John Menzies. It confirmed that it had fallen into receivership after the loss of several key contracts to those companies in recent months. Smiths News paid £1.5 million for the bulk of the wholesaler's assets this week, including the leases on 20 of its stock depots, while Menzies secured the rest of the company's property and remaining staff for £500,000. A number of news retailers have expressed concern at the possibility of losing money from returns following the collapse of Dawson, with some also expressing fears that they would be treated like other unsecured creditors by the administrator. John Lennon, managing director of ANR, said: "It is therefore a great relief that we are able to confirm that as far as returns go, it is business as usual for retailers formerly served by Dawson. "We are grateful to the publishers and wholesalers with whom we have been discussing this issue for their common sense approach." ANR confirmed that retailers with outstanding deposits with Dawson News will have them returned once accounts are settled. According to the Times, one of the key contracts lost by Dawson News was with the paper's owner News International, which switched to Smiths News in March. (c) 2009 Comment on this news story   Trade News Archive 2008  December   November   October   September August   July   June   May   April   March   February   January