Starting from 6 th of April this year, our readers pointed us that ZIUA de Constanţa ceased to be sold by Conpress Group stands; our newspaper should have been distributed by Tutun şi Ziare Ltd. The standing orders which should have been distributed by the same company also ceased to include the local edition of ZIUA newspaper.
After a check on what our readers informed us, we have come to the conclusion that the state is real and was also confirmed by the sellers in the newspaper distribution places in which the newspaper providers are Tutun şi Ziare Ltd. More over, persons in charge of the stands told us that they would not receive the newspaper any longer, as they superiors informed them.
The single shareholder of Tutun şi Ziare Ltd is the company Conpress Group Ltd, and one of its shareholders is the mayor of Constanţa, Radu Mazăre.
This company owns 85% from press distribution in Constanţa. That is, they have a monopoly.
As our newspaper policy has always been equidistant and had shown both positive and negative aspects of local public administration and of activity of the mayor Radu Mazăre, we are left no other choice but to state that the mayor is troubled by our presence on Constanţa media market and that ceasing to distribute ZIUA de Constanţa newspaper in Conpress Group stands can only be seen as a form of prohibition.
It's true that, starting from the end of November 2008, Tutun şi Ziare Ltd informed that "because of high logistical costs", the found themselves in the impossibility of distributing ZIUA de Constanţa. But not only ZIUA de Constanţa. The letter dated 28th of November 2008 was followed by other documents mentioning the same aspect, having no outcome though. Actually, the documents issued by Tutun şi Ziare Ltd may be considered warnings of the distribution company to the articles published by our daily newspaper. @
