Distributors

A Major League Baseball logo at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, May 22, 2022.Ronald Martinez | Getty ImagesIt's been about a week since Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced a new joint venture to offer live sports outside the traditional cable bundle, and pay TV distributors are still trying to figure out just how disruptive the new service will be.The key question for distributors such as Comcast, Charter and DirecTV is whether they'll be allowed to offer the same skinny bundle of linear networks that…

Diamond Comic Distributors have issued a Special Alert concerning Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing product on-sale on the 24th of May.Diamond Comic Distributors have issued a Diamond Plattsburgh Special Alert concerning Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing product on-sale on the 24th of May. Dear Diamond Customer:Due to a serious truck accident, the shipment of Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing product with an in-store date of May 24 that was en route to Diamond's Plattsburgh Distribution Center was damaged or destroyed.While…

The maker of Bud Light is working to make amends with its distributors, who say they have taken the brunt of the backlash to a company promotion with a transgender influencer. Anheuser-Busch InBev , the country’s largest brewer, has pledged to boost its marketing spending on Bud Light, accelerate production of a new slate of ads, and give a case of Bud Light to every employee of an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler, distributors said.  The maker of Bud Light is working to make amends with its…

<!----> Great Wall Motors (GWM) has held its 2023 Global Conference with the theme of “New GWM New Energy” attended by more than 260 distributor representatives from more than 60 countries and regions. At the conference, GWM held a grand award ceremony to commend distributors who worked…

Vault Comics announced today that The Nasty, the publisher’s new slasher-inspired horror series, has sold out at the distributor ahead of its April 5 debut. The book, whose creative team includes John Lees, Adam Cahoon, George Kambadais, and Jim Campbell, will be getting a second printing and an all-new cover that is primarily a black and white take on the series’ main cover by Cahoon. Read about the comic below: Scotland, 1994. Eighteen-year-old Thumper Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his…

<!----> BYD & MDL cooperation signing ceremony: (Left: Michael Shu, general manager and managing director, BYD Europe and International Cooperation Division; Patrick Finnegan, CEO of Motor Distributors BYD has appointed dealer distributors for Ireland, Finland and Iceland as it…

Whatever water we are born in is the one we must swim through. Most of us remain submerged and do what we can to simply keep swimming, but sometimes we surface. And sometimes we drown. In God’s Creatures we get to sink and soar through the waters of one Irish fishing village and their moment of reckoning.This gothic Irish drama, out this Friday in the US but still without a distributor in the UK or Ireland, tells the story of a mother (Emily Watson) lying to protect her son (Paul Mescal), and a community taking sides and…

| Comic book store direct market distributor of 40 years Diamond Comic Distributors has filed a lawsuit in the district court of Maryland against GameStop, the largest gaming retail chain in the USA, who also sell a number of comics, statues, toys and other products distributed by Diamond. Diamond Comic Distributors usually distributes products on a direct non-returnable basis to stores, in return for an increased discount than the rest of the market receives. Diamond is suing for a total of $2.8 million for items that…

Bob Fitzsimmons, left, and Paul Farrell, attorneys for the plaintiffs, discussed the settlement in Charleston, W.Va., on Monday. Photo: Kenny Kemp/Associated Press…