News retailers have welcomed the forthcoming 10p increase on weekday editions of the Daily Mail as the publisher maintained margins at 22.3 per cent.
The cover price rises to 80p on Monday (March 29) and the stockists will earn 17.85p for every copy sold, which means an extra 2p per copy.
“We are pleased that the Daily Mail is recognising the tremendous efforts that news retailers have gone to throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to get the newspaper into readers’ hands,” commented Stuart Reddish, national president of NFRN.
“For everyone operating within the news industry, it has been a remarkably challenging time and we would like to thank Mail Newspapers for maintaining the retail margin.
“Coming off the back of recent announcements of carriage charge freezes, this is really good news. The NFRN applauds the Daily Mail for supporting news retailers by maintaining terms.”
News distributors Smiths News and News UK has delayed their carriage charge reviews in consideration of the impact of pandemic on retailers. Menzies Distribution earlier this month said it has not undertaken any carriage charge review at present, hinting at the possibility of the charges to remain unchanged for the time being.
