22|Retail News|March 2014|www.retailnews.ie
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The Paper Trail Irish newspaper and magazine sales remain a vital part of your product offering in-store. We examine the latest readership and sales figures for the sector and advise on hot categories for 2014. FOLLOWING a number of tough years for print media, the latest figures for the newspaper and magazine sector in Ireland make for interesting reading, with most industry commentators predicting that the news-rack will break out of recession in 2014, which should make this the most interesting and profitable year for the sector in a long time. Over three million people in Ireland read newspapers regularly, according to the Joint National Readership Survey (JNRS) 2013, which was released at the end of February. This figure includes readers of print and online newspaper products. 2.9m people read printed newspapers regularly (either a daily newspaper yesterday, or a Sunday/weekly newspaper in the past week). Almost 500,000 people
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