OPINION

Proud to serve you!

IT was easily one of the proudest moments of the Olive Press’s 17-year history.

Distribution Day - or D-Day, as September 15, 2015, became known - saw the entire team of 12, including admin, journalists and sales people, jump into action with the first issue (right) of the Gibraltar Olive Press

Setting off from our office in Manilva in five different cars we had no choice but to distribute 10,000 copies to nearly 100 drops around the Rock. Wearing bespoke red and green Olive Press Gibraltar t-shirts we got papers into all the key locations traipsing up and down the entire enclave. Job done, we sat back and were delighted with the response with numerous emails of support and, crucially, dozens of new clients.

While it has been anything but easy servicing businesses on the Rock and responding to their needs, we continue to cover the key stories here, plus the most interesting and colourful across the border.

More crucially, we publish a continual drip-drip of stories online, where at times 15 to 20% of all our 20,000-visitors-a-day come from Gibraltar.

We know you like what we do and, we hope, you will come back and support our free publication in the years to come. After all, our main journalist, John Culatto, is a Gibraltarian and the rest of our team regularly comes in to visit.

I myself was in just last week and had a lovely lunch up at the Rock hotel after visiting friends and clients. There is something very special about the enclave and I look forward to the next 200 editions.

Yours

Jon Clarke PUBLISHER