An unspecified number of jobs are set to be transferred to Bradford by a leading newspaper and magazine wholesaler following a £20 million buy-out of a rival.

Smiths News is set to break into the e-book market after it agreed to buy academic-focused rival Dawson.

Smiths said Dawson’s largest trading division, Dawson Books, which supplies up to 80 per cent of the country’s universities, would provide an established e-book platform for its own book wholesaler Bertrams.

For the full story, read Wednesday's T&A business pages