The Daily Mail & General Trust is likely to reveal an increase in its profits when it publishes preliminary financial results later this week, according to a report.
The improvement is expected to come from increasing ad revenue and improvements in the publishing group’s B2B businesses.
The group’s national newspapers – the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday – are also expected to see a small revenue growth while times are expected to remain tough at regional press division Northcliffe.
Johnston Press reported a like-for-like drop of 5.4 per cent in advertising revenue in the 18 weeks to 6 November saying a slump in the recruitment sector had caused revenue to fall below expectations.
Trinity Mirror suffered a slump of 5.4 per cent in adjusted group revenue in the 17 weeks to the end of October as a declining ad yield was exacerbated by a poor September.
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