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Ten Alps Communications ranked fourth nationally among customer publishers |
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
An annual table of the UK’s largest customer contract publishers has ranked Ten Alps Communications based in Macclesfield as the UK’s fourth largest publisher of its type.
Ten Alps, which is run out of Macclesfield by Ten Alps board director Adrian Dunleavy, has three major operational bases: the other two being Manchester and London. The core of Ten Alps publishing operation came with the acquisition of what was McMillan Scott in March 2006.
 Dunleavy
Ten Alps sales from customer magazines are £29.4m which amount to the bulk of Ten Alps Communications sales at £40m. Aim-listed Ten Alps plc has total sales of £70m.
Ten Alps publishing clients include a number of Chambers of Commerce, the Road Hauliers Association and numerous public sector bodies.
The sector’s trade body, the Association of Publishing Agencies said it is recording essentially one new launch a day across the UK from both major and smaller corporates.
Customer magazines range from Sainsburys, Sky and Tesco to Chambers of Commerce and Association periodicals.
The UK’s market leaders in the sector are John Brown (the original Viz publishers), Redwood and Publicis Blueprint with respectively £57m, £36m and £34m of sales.
Ten Alps is the only company in the top 10 based outside London.
Two other sizeable regional customer publication publishers, Excel and PSCA, based respectively in Manchester and Newcastle-under-Lyme, declined to submit their figures for the survey compilation.
 Regan However, Martin Regan, a director of Excel told How-Do that his company’s sales from contract titles amounted to just over £4m out of total sales of £7m plus. This would have placed Excel in 16th position nationally. However Regan said Excel typically don’t participate in such compilations.
Nor does PSCA which generates even larger sales from its contract titles.
Managing director Darren Wilson did not wish to discuss the matter. PSCA is one of the largest independent publishing houses outside London. Venture capitalist Aberdeen has a stake in the company which was originated by Aberdeen’s Manchester office.
www.tenalpscommunications.com
www.publicservice.co.uk
www.excelpublishing.co.uk
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