Management
From the ending of the agreement with Longmans (in the 1930s) all publishing functions had taken place in house; Editorial, Production, Marketing, Accounts and Distribution. However, in March 2006 the Accounts and Distribution function was outsourced to NBN International in Plymouth, allowing the business to expand. The offices of the Press are in the University's Coupland 3 Building (Old Medical School in the view above) and the former Manchester warehouse east of Oxford Road has been demolished. (The Press has moved around the campus many times in its history: most of its old homes no longer exist.)
In 2007 the largest throughput of new publishing in the history of the Press was achieved with well over 150 new titles published, thanks in part to the Research Assessment Exercise, as well as the increased flexibility of the new distribution arrangement.
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