Publishing & Print Distribution
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As market leader, we deliver publishing and print solutions with exceptional precision and care. From magazines and journals to books and direct mail, every detail is managed by experts, ensuring your printed materials reach audiences worldwide safely, reliably, and on time.
Reliable delivery for every issue
Our magazine distribution services are designed with meticulous care, efficiency, and precision. We ensure your publications reach readers across the UK and worldwide – securely and on time. With end-to-end solutions from warehousing to wrapping and fulfilment, we handle every detail, so your magazine always makes the right impression, issue after issue.
Our domestic distribution service delivers magazines across the UK with care and precision. We offer Mailmark, Subscription Mail, Downstream Access, Tray Mailings, and tracked services, ensuring your publications arrive on time with careful attention to every delivery.
Our global distribution service delivers magazines worldwide with care, offering 1st and 2nd class, bulk, tracked and untracked options, plus regular updates to ensure a seamless and timely journey, from despatch to delivery.
A dedicated freight services team that moves your goods both domestically and across borders with ease, planned with great attention to detail and delivered with full after sales care and regular customer service updates.
Our flexible, fully managed warehousing service is built around your needs, from secure storage and smart order processing to real-time stock control using our state-of-the-art warehouse management system.
We provide flexible, in-house wrapping and fulfilment solutions, including machine enclosing, hand fulfilment, bulk consignments and specialised hand-working – tailored to your needs for maximum convenience and efficiency.
We provide an extensive range of subscriptions management services to all sectors of the publishing industry. Our clients are Consumer, Business, Academic or Membership organisations seeking to outsource management of their recurring payment and customer services activity. Find out more about Subscriptions & Order-to-Cash.
Precision distribution for journals
Whether sending journals in the UK or overseas, we meet all postal requirements and use a range of delivery services to reach recipients faster. Our end-to-end services include Order-to-Cash, data processing, fulfilment, stock management and flexible delivery options. We ensure academic and professional publications arrive securely and on schedule, whether to individual subscribers and society members or in bulk to universities, libraries and subscription agents.
We deliver journals worldwide, offering 1st and 2nd class, bulk, tracked and untracked options, plus regular updates, to ensure a seamless and timely journey, from despatch to delivery.
Our expert fulfilment services include wrapping, enclosing and packaging, working hand-in-hand to protect your products and ensure a smooth journey and reliable delivery.
Our flexible, fully managed warehousing service is built around your needs, from secure storage and smart order processing to real-time stock control using our state-of-the-art warehouse management system.
We offer custom freight solutions built specifically for journals, offering reliable, trackable delivery options and fully supported by decades of expertise in the publishing industry.
We provide recurring revenue solutions for academic journals and process orders for portfolios of 1,000’s of academic books. The Air Business Subscriptions Order-to-Cash service can be seamlessly integrated into your existing platform architecture, supported by our dedicated team with expertise in the migration, implementation, integration, on-going management and customer services for the world’s leading academic publishers. Find out more about Subscriptions & Order-to-Cash.
Precision distribution for specialist publications
Our book delivery services for publishers, printers, wholesalers and distributors are the perfect fit for the direct-to-consumer market, whether books are shipped from stock or via Print on Demand.
Global reach for your books with untracked, tracked and express services to over 220 countries and territories worldwide. Our flexible delivery options let publishers and customers choose the service that suits them best.
Our expert fulfilment services include wrapping, enclosing and packaging, working hand-in-hand to protect your books and ensure a smooth journey and reliable delivery.
Our flexible, fully managed warehousing service is built around your needs, from secure storage and smart order processing to real-time stock control using our state-of-the-art warehouse management system.
We move books intelligently – combining air, road and sea freight with smart routing, quality assurance and full visibility. Our Logistics platform Consero ensures flexibility, speed and cost-efficiency at scale. Find out more about Consero.
Delivered with care and confidence
From brochures and catalogues to direct mail campaigns, we manage the logistics of printed matter mailings with precision and care. Every item is handled with the same attention to detail, backed by robust quality controls that ensure consistent, reliable delivery services to your domestic or global markets of choice.
Our domestic distribution service delivers your printed items across the UK with care and precision. We offer Mailmark, Subscription Mail, Downstream Access, Tray Mailings and tracked services, ensuring your items arrive on time with careful attention to every delivery.
Our global distribution service delivers your printed items worldwide with care and precision, offering 1st and 2nd class, bulk, tracked and untracked options, plus regular updates to ensure a seamless and timely journey, from despatch to delivery.
Our expert fulfilment services include wrapping, enclosing and packaging, working hand-in-hand to protect your printed items and ensure a smooth journey and reliable delivery.
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Client testimonials
To our business, they are an absolutely critical resource as we serve subscribers to our Journal weekly and the expectation is that their Journal will be on their doorsteps the same time week in and week out, wherever in the world they may be. Air Business ensures this happens and we not only value the service that they offer but the attention to detail which is afforded by our Air Business account manager.
The Tablet Publishing Company
News UK has worked with Air Business for approximately eight years to distribute our Times Literary Supplement to overseas subscribers, and their service has always been first class. Each week, Air Business collects copies from our print site, fulfils orders at their Hatfield facility, and distributes them within 24 hours. They are quick to respond to delivery queries, even for remote addresses, and proactive in ensuring efficient service through their carriers. They have also supported us with delivering show copies to European destinations, expertly handling customs clearance through their established accounts. It’s always a pleasure working with Air Business, and we look forward to continuing our partnership.
News UK
We started mailing with Air Business two years ago and it has proved to be a great decision. They provide us with an efficient and worry-free service which allows us to concentrate on growing our business. Always competitive in the market they do so much more than just mailing. Air Business are a pleasure to work with.
Frieze
Air Business have consistently provided a high-quality service for The Guardian over many years. Our account is managed excellently, and they’re extremely professional and straightforward to work with. We especially benefited from some superb analysis around our mailing in Europe, which informed our decision to print and mail on the continent.
The Guardian
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Frequently asked questions
Find answers to your questions about our publishing and print services.
The basic information we require is: circulation volume by country, weight of item, dimensions, frequency, how the items are fulfilled, current printer and service required. Contact sales@airbusiness.com
Yes – Air Business has a global reach. We also have strong links with many different logistics partners that can manage distribution from outside of the UK.
UK and International distribution services. Tracked, Untracked, Courier, Fulfilment, Warehousing & Stock Management, Event Logistics and Subscription Management.
Yes. Air Business report annually on Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. We are also certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001.
Yes – Air Business has a process to manage IOSS mailings – We can advise you on the required information that is needed within your address data.
No – Air Business work with all the major UK printers (and many printers from around the world). Mailings can be despatched directly from these printers using Air Business postage accounts.
