14 MAY 1932, Page 32

01)11AMS PltESS.

At the annual meeting of Odhams Press the chairman stated that during the past year the net profit had been increased front 1261,000 to £276,000. The addition of .U00,000 to the debenture stock made during the year had, he said, been for (Continued on page vi.) Financial Notes (Continued from page 716) general purposes and expansion of the company's business, and for the development programme of the Daily Herald on lines previously successfully adopted in the case of John Bull and Thc People.