Daltons
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[edit] History of Daltons Weekly
Established during the late 1860's by Mr Herbert Dalton, DaltonsWeekly was initially a single broad sheet listing 'Accommodation for Gentleman' in the then fashionable middle class suburbs around Vauxhall in South London. (Est. 138 years)
The paper proved very successful, but regrettably within 2 years of starting the paper, Mr Dalton died, leaving it to his brother, who was a butcher in Westerham, Kent and had no interest in publishing so sold the paper on to 2 brothers by the name of ‘Hebert’. Their vested interest in the paper's continuing is obvious and they paid the princely sum of £100 to buy it outright.
For the next 102 years, Daltons Weekly remained a family business owned by the Hebert's. During this period it grew and developed into the type of format we are now familiar with.
In June 1972 the paper was purchased by Morgan Grampian Ltd and the 3 main market areas of Holidays, Property and Businesses were focussed on and the unrelated sectors were closed down.
In 1987 Morgan-Grampian was acquired by United Business Media (then known as United News and Media) in the United Advertising Publications (UAP) division which was then transferred into the CMPi portfolio in December 2005 as part of the Specialist Division/Consumer group.
[edit] Distribution
Daltons Weekly is published every Thursday and stocked in all WHSmith and Asda stores, as well as Tesco, Sainsbury’s and 18,000 independent outlets.
Daltons three websites has over 5.5 million page impressions for its sites, with over 280,000 monthly combined visits.
[edit] Daltons Business
Established in 2002 Daltons Businessis the UK's largest database of businesses for sale with over 25,000 businesses currently listed, including franchises, commercial property and businesses abroad. Daltons Business is the market leader with 56.8% in its remit and has over 3,500,000 page impressions every month.
The quantity of business type on the database are as follows; Retail - 8445, Hotels, motels & guest houses - 1600, Post Offices - 1256, Pubs, wine bars, clubs - 2900, Bed and breakfast - 429, Caring businesses - 496, Businesses for sale abroad - 897, Commercial Property - 1408
[edit] Daltons Holidays
Launched in 2003 Daltons Holidays has thousands of properties currently listed worldwide. From B&Bs, cottages and caravans in the UK to villas and apartments internationally. Daltons Holidays boasts over 1,000,000 page impressions through natural search every month,with approximately 90,000 unique visitors.
[edit] Daltons Property
Launched in 2004 Daltons Property has over 6000 properties for sale in the UK and abroad. Daltons Property has an average of 800,000 monthly page impressions through natural searches, and approximately 50,000 monthly unique visitors...
