Update, 13/3/2012 Wesley Owen Bromley ceased trading on Sat 10/3/2012; official announcement here: wesleyowen.com/info/pdfs/bromley.pdf Update, 7/3/2012 Wesley Owen Derby ceased trading on Sat 3/3/2012; official announcement here: wesleyowen.com/info/pdfs/derby.pdf ACCORDING TO A BOOKSELLER REPORT published this morning, all but one of the Wesley Owen bookshops now look set to close as the company focuses on its online … Continue reading »
Posted in January 2012 …
A Tsunami of Bookshop Closures: Eddie Olliffe on the recent closures – reflections and questions
EDDIE OLLIFFE reflects on the current state of High Street Christian bookselling after so many recent closures and asks important questions about the way forward: It has felt like a tsunami of bad news of late with so many Bookshop closures. The UK has lost 26% of its Bookshops since 2006 (over 400 outlets according to … Continue reading »
UKCBD Updates: An Update…
THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in bookshop updates over the last few weeks: this post is simply to confirm that those updates are in progress. As with any voluntary project, however, these things take time: depending upon other commitments (such as church, family and earning a crust to keep the wolves from the … Continue reading »
Light Shines on in the Darkness as more Redundancies and Shop Closures hit Wesley Owen
Update, 26/1/2011: Official announcements about the closures have now been posted by Wesley Owen: Bath | Bristol (pdfs, identical apart from the store locations and dates of closure) The Bath Chronicle published a report on Weds 25/1/2012: Christian bookshop closes its doors NEWS EMERGED YESTERDAY of further redundancies at Wesley Owen as the Bath and Bristol stores closed … Continue reading »
From bad to worse in Carlisle as yet more staff face job losses at TMD
HOPES THAT the recently announced sale and privatisation of Trust Media Distribution would secure the future and bring stability to the organisation have been crushed as yet another round of redundancies has been announced. Writing in the Carlisle News & Star on Saturday, Matthew Legg, the paper’s Business Editor, describes staff as shocked by the … Continue reading »
Shaped by the Story: Hot off the press from BRF, Antony Billington introduces Whole Life, Whole Bible
THIS AFTERNOON — much later in the day than I’d intended — it gives me great pleasure to introduce Antony Billington, an old friend of LBC/LST vintage, now Head of Theology at LICC; and Antony himself introduces his book Whole Life, Whole Bible, hot off the press from BRF, co-written with Margaret Killingray and Helen Parry. It’s … Continue reading »
Reflections from Roger Pearse: Christian bookshops – the key part of the local church?
MY THANKS to Roger Pearse for kind permission to reproduce this thought provoking and challenging post from his blog, all the more challenging given the number of bookshop closures we’ve seen over the last year or so. Roger’s observations echo many of the conversations we’ve had here over the years, going right back to my … Continue reading »
All change and no change at TMD online
MOST TMD TRADE CUSTOMERS should have received notification by now of the imminent changes to their website, tmdistribution.co.uk: this is simply a reminder that the switchover happens this evening, at 6pm, at which point we can say a happy farewell to the old and overstretched STL Distribution site that TMD inherited. If you’ve missed the … Continue reading »
Midweek News Roundup: Business as usual at TMD; Paul Owen appointed as Director Of Sales at Kingsway Distribution; and SU Bookshop Dublin reopened under new ownership
Business as usual at TMD Paul Owen appointed as Director Of Sales at Kingsway Distribution SU Bookshop Dublin reopened under new ownership Business as usual at TMD MY THANKS to Pete Barnsley, TMD’s Supply Chain & Marketing Team Leader, for his prompt response to yesterday’s report on the sale of Trust Media Distribution to the company’s CEO, … Continue reading »
Another twist in the post-STL tale as TMD enters private ownership
IN A TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT issued late yesterday afternoon – just after 5pm – Trust Media Distribution (previously trading as STL Distribution), Carlisle, announced the sale and privatisation of the company to its CEO, Ken Munro. The change follows an extensive period of restructuring and consolidation within the company as it has sought to realign itself … Continue reading »
