Our Services-Canada

1 Billion Copies per Year!

As a Periodical supplier, The News Group distributes more than 4500 different magazines and well over 10,000 book titles. We take pride in delivering excellent service with category management, merchandising, and first-to-market products. The News Group's broad reach and large infrastructure across North America effectively receives, processes, delivers and tracks over 1 billion periodical copies each year .

The Only National Wholesaler

The News Group Canada is the prevailing periodical wholesaler in Canada. Some major customers served are…Loblaws / Westfair Foods, Shoppers Drug Mart, Safeway, London Drugs, 7-11, Chapters/ Indigo, HDS, BC Ferries, Overwaitea and A&P. For more information about our customers click here to go to our "Chain Profiles" page.

Magazine and Book Delivery to your Retail Location

Either directly, or through our joint ventures in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal, The News Group receives, allocates and delivers magazines and books in all of Canada's 10 provinces and 3 territories and is the only fully national periodical wholesaler.

Increase Category Sales

The News Group provides merchandising information and category management  tools to ensure proper presentation of the best-selling titles and to leverage the impulse purchase nature of the product.

Support

In all cases, Regional Account Managers, our Inside Sales Team and Customer Service department work toward increasing your sales and profitability of the category. They’ll also present the latest book and magazine products that your consumers are looking for. We’re in business with you, our partners to provide the pleasurable experience of reading to your consumers.

 

We know you’ll want to make the most of this category in your store, a few minutes a day is all it takes. For an updated Customer Information Guide that provides valuable tips and order processing information, please Contact Us.

Customized Category Management

The News Group uses category management and our proprietary Category Optimization and Merchandising Execution Technology, to manage this profitable category. Our state of the art data-mining software allows customized magazine management for each individual store or chain of stores, thereby ensuring that sales are optimized.

Books Are Strategically Important

This high profile, high-ring category, has assumed increasing strategic importance to our retail customers. In order to provide a dedicated source of support and coordination for our clients, The News Group has greatly increased its book department’s investment in people and technology. The move is just one signal of the company's focus on the book category, which continues to grow as a percentage of total News Group sales.

RDA Collection

Through our Partner RS2 Canada, we offer RDA incentive dollar collection and check-lane management services. Our difference is that we are in partnership with you, our client and our focus is on optimizing your sales, not just RDA payments.