Australian Newsagency Blog

What I thought was a cordial discussion with our landlord about their new tax on us opening at 7am three days a week got legal yesterday when their company solicitor wrote pointing to where in our lease they have the right to charge this fee and the basis on which they can levy it retrospectively.  […]

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Colonial First State, landlord for our newsXpress Forest Hill store has introduced an extended trading hours charge.  We have been charged because we open before the official centre opening hours each day.  They have applied this charge retrospectively - from July 2008.
We are still waiting for compensation water damaged stock removed from our shop when […]

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The image is the planned shopfront for our Frankston newsagency.  We have been working with designers, the landlord and other stakeholders for months to find a fit which is flexible and fits the various requirements we face.  What started as a partial fit has become a complete refit.  Nothing from the existing newsagency will be […]

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This ink dispensing unit branded Affordable Ink has been installed at Forest Hill Chase.  A check this morning of their prices shows that their branded ink is not so affordable.  The same products at our newsagency in the centre retail for between 10% and 20% less.  What frustrates me is that the landlord lets another […]

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I am aware of four new or extended (major) shopping centres which do not have a newsagency. I am sure there are more than these four. In each case, the landlord has offered the space to a cast of prospective newsagent tenants and each has said no. In two cases, the newsagent […]

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Don’t believe what they say, size matters, it matters a lot when you have to pay the rent off the back of an old retail model built back when small was beautiful.
Landlords like big newsagencies - 250 square metres and above. The size isn’t a problem if a margin model can be built which […]

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Landlords like tenants with multiple formats, it makes for efficient leasing. The photo from Armidale says it all. Supanews on the left and Angus and Robertson on the right. They look like two businesses but are from the one corporate family. I’d expect them to be on the one lease and […]

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