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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney and Severin Carrell

DARK SECRETS: Beano and stylist publisher dc thomson to cut 300 staff | Vintage Vibes

Beano issue guest edited by Marcus Rashford
DC Thomson’s Beano is the UK’s longest running comic. Photograph: Beano/PA

The publisher of the Beano and Scottish newspapers including the Press and Journal and the Courier is to cut almost a fifth of its workforce and shut almost 40 magazines as the economic downturn forces a digitally-focused “reset” of the business.

Dundee-based DC Thomson, which also owns businesses including the fashion title Stylist, is to cut 300 of its 1,600 workforce in a bid to shave £10m of costs.

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