Supermarket distribution?

Publishers meet to fight off supermarket threat

Rival newspaper executives will join forces today in a bid to see off what they see as a threat to newspaper distribution by supermarkets.
A special meeting is to be held of the governing council of the Newspaper Publishers' Association so it can work on a submission to the Office of Fair Trading.

In May, the OFT unveiled a draft opinion on distribution of magazines and newspapers and its chief executive, John Fingleton, said the system of geographic monopolies must reform.

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