Dawson News is one of the three multiple companies in UK newspaper and magazine wholesaling, with a 20% share of the news distribution sector. The company delivers over 1 billion copy sales each year.

Independent News Distributors (INd) was founded in 1993 as a vehicle to give independent newspaper and magazine wholesalers a focal point and to disseminate Best Practice. Membership of INd includes every independent news and magazine wholesaler in the United Kingdom.

ISSA is an all-industry agreement that establishes a minimum set of service standards for individual wholesalers to provide to individual retailers of newspapers and magazines.

The Joint Industry Group comprises the Association of Newspaper and Magazine Wholesalers (ANMW), the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA), the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA), the Association of News Retailing (ANR), the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN).

Menzies Distribution's 26 branches across the UK handle over 3,000 magazine titles and 4 million newspapers each day (5 million on Sundays) to more than 21,200 customers.

The National Distribution Monitor, which was introduced in May 2000 as part of the Focus On Distribution Initiative (FODI), provides constantly updated information on national newspaper distribution throughout the UK

The National Title File is designed to provide information on the magazine titles handled by the UK newstrade. This includes details of the title, issue, price, barcode, on and off sale dates and market segmentation.

Smiths News is the largest of the 3 multiple wholesalers, with 50 branches in England & Wales delivering 4.1m newspapers every day.