private industry news distribution founded 2007 headquarters belfast northern ireland and dublin republic of ireland website www.emnewsdistribution.com em news distribution is a magazine and newspaper distributor which operates in northern ireland and the republic of ireland . the company is a joint venture between eason news distribution and menzies news distribution owned by john menzies plc and was formed in 2007 by the merger of their respective distribution businesses . menzies news distribution have experience in delivering over 4.5 million newspapers and 2.5 million magazines daily to 22 000 customers . eason while on a smaller scale have equal experience delivering news titles to thousands of customers throughout ireland . according to menzies the new company will have estimated gross assets of 10million . 1 menzies news distribution has ceased trading in northern ireland due to the joint venture however they continue to operate in great britain . eason news distribution as well as its subsidiary newsbrothers based in cork have stopped trading throughout ireland . em news distribution is based in belfast harbour estate . eason news distribution was based on the boucher road in belfast . the forming of the company has made the eason head office nearly defunct as eason news distribution was its largest division operating from belfast . this has led to many job losses . eason and menzies have claimed that since the newspaper and magazine distribution industry over ireland is heavily diluted it is logical to join forces . 2 customers benefit from new advanced technology as well as reduced costs less suppliers to deal with . the launch date for the company was put back several times due to union action as jobs were being cut in the process of the merger . em news has adopted menzies systems ; the website cover sheets recalls dockets invoices etc. are based on current menzies technology . 2015 financial accounts edit the company reported turnover of 95 million in 2015 as against 96.7 million a year earlier . pretax profits declined from 1.15 million to 532 000 a figure which includes a loss on financial instruments of 489 000 . 3 the commercial environment in which the company operates is expected to remain competitive in the year ahead the directors said . the business is subject to external consumer trends and demands . this is evident in the continued slow decline in national newspaper and magazine volumes . references edit kehoe ian 2007 01 14 . eason and menzies sign joint distribution deal . sunday business post . financial times information . access date requires url help 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 http www.irishtimes.com business media and marketing decline in print media sales hits em news distribution profits 1.2793683 external links edit em news distribution website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title em news distribution & oldid 740407841 categories newspaper companies of the united kingdommedia companies of northern irelandhidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no url 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 20 september 2016 at 21 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view