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This article is about a group of British weekly newspapers. For other uses, see Dalton and The Daltons.

Established during the late 1860s by Mr Herbert Dalton, Daltons Weekly 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 CMP Information portfolio in December 2005 as part of the Specialist Division/Consumer group.

1 Distribution
2 Daltons Business
3 Daltons Biz
4 Daltons Holidays
5 Daltons Property

[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.

[edit] Daltons Business

Established in 2002 Daltons Businessis the UK's largest database of businesses for sale with over 27,000 businesses currently listed, including franchises, commercial property and businesses abroad. Daltons Business has an average of 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 Biz

Daltons Biz was launched in February 2007 and is a magazine for small businesses owners, plus anyone looking to start, buy or sell a small business. It profiles inspirational business people and brings a mix of controversial opinions, reviews of books and websites, advice on improving work-life balance and quirky facts and figures.

[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 an average of 500,000 page impressions through natural search and an average of 28,000 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 350,000 monthly page impressions, and approximately 20,000 monthly unique visitors.