disambiguation . john menzies plc type public traded as lse mnzs industry distribution aviation founded 1833 headquarters edinburgh scotland uk key people dermot jenkinson chairman giles wilson cfo forsyth black president & managing director menzies aviation revenue 1 993.3 million 2015 1 net income 38.2 million 2015 before exceptionals of 20m 1 number of employees 25 600 divisions menzies aviation menzies distribution website www.johnmenziesplc.com john menzies plc men zeez traditionally m s ming iss is a scottish business established in 1833 . it has two main divisions menzies distribution and menzies aviation and is listed on the london stock exchange . john menzies ran high street and railway station shops particularly in scotland through a retail division which dealt in newspapers magazines books stationery and other products which was sold to rival wh smith in the late 1990s . 2 contents 1 history 2 aviation 3 distribution 4 pronunciation 5 references 6 external links history edit a john menzies shop on high street the company was founded by john menzies 1808 1879 of edinburgh a victorian entrepreneur who built up his small newsagent business established when he was 25 years old into a national chain . menzies died at his townhouse 3 grosvenor crescent in edinburgh s west end 3 and was buried in warriston cemetery on the north side of the city . 4 in 1988 the business purchased 66 of the martin retail group s largest stores in england doubling john menzies floor space overnight . these stores which had previously traded as martin the newsagent lavells newsagents lewis meeson rs mccoll sperrings and house of andrew were quickly rebranded as menzies stores . the retail operation was sold to w h smith high street and some to whsmith europe travel retail in 1998 to enable menzies to concentrate on its distribution business . 2 in 2007 john menzies merged its newspaper and magazine wholesale distribution businesses in northern ireland into a joint venture with eason & son to be called em news distribution . 5 aviation edit menzies aviation is a provider of aviation services to the global airline industry which operates in 149 airports and 31 countries around the world . its service offer is split between ground handling cargo handling and cargo forwarding which is conducted by its independently run subsidiary air menzies international ami . ground handling at 143 airports across the globe this stream of the business supports millions of passengers every year from the check in desk to the runway on behalf of their airlines . its service menu includes issuing tickets handling baggage boarding passengers and towing planes . cargo handling the business offers full ramp transfer load management and import export handling services supported by warehousing and trucking facilities which can help convey valuable consignments to the next step in their supply chains . cargo forwarding ami air freight is an expensive means of transport and requires a certain critical mass of cargo in order to be viable . acting as a neutral agent ami buys belly space in flights across the world and consolidates cargo into them for its customers whose loads would otherwise be too small to warrant the minimum space purchase required by airlines . distribution edit a menzies distribution van delivering newspapers in london . menzies distribution is a major logistics supplier in the united kingdom . it provides final mile delivery for 110 million delivery units each year serving customers in the press travel and third party logistics sectors . the division operates one of the largest overnight logistics networks in the uk . according to the company s 2014 annual report menzies distribution drives its vehicle fleet 130 000 miles every day in the course of making its deliveries a process staged from 8 hub and 31 spoke facilities across the country . menzies distribution s service offer is split into 5 distinct areas trucking moving bulk supplies of products long distance across the uk using large trucks . final mile cross docking picking packing and delivering products to their end destinations with a fleet of smaller vans ; also providing reverse logistics for the same product categories . hand to hand micro delivery services and product sampling handing items directly to the businesses and consumers for whom they are intended . response fulfilment services tailored for e commerce and mail order ; storing picking and despatching stock items on demand . fore an independently run specialist consultancy which advises retail businesses on category management . menzies parcels john menzies now provides parcel services in the scottish highlands islands and argyll for the fast growing e commerce market . 6 pronunciation edit the name menzies is traditionally pronounced m s ming iss as the z is historically the letter yogh . even in scotland where the name menzies originated the name of the retail stores was increasingly pronounced as john men zeez . john menzies provides a humorous guide to the correct pronunciation . 7 references edit a b 1 a b menzies sells shops to wh smith in gbp 64m deal scotland on sunday 8 march 1998 edinburgh and leith post office directory 1875 6 warriston cemetery . retrieved 2012 06 13 . eason and menzies to form joint venture in ireland . john menzies plc online news . john menzies plc. 2007 01 03 . access date requires url help john menzies buys highlands parcels firm for 7.5 m . www.scotsman.com . retrieved 2016 10 07 . john menzies name pronunciation at the wayback machine archived september 30 2007 external links edit scotland portal companies portal john menzies plc company website menzies distribution menzies aviation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title john menzies & oldid 743023492 categories companies established in 1833service companies of scotlandcompanies based in edinburghaircraft ground handling companiesscottish brands1833 establishments in scotlandretail companies of scotlanddefunct retail companies of the united kingdomhidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlarticles with wayback machine linksarticles containing old english language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 09 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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