Smiths News and John Menzies have won lucrative new contracts to supply the Mail group of newspapers and magazines such as Vogue across the UK, cementing their dominance of the news distribution market.

The five-year contracts, awarded on Tuesday by Associated Newspapers and magazine group Comag, give Menzies, an Edinburgh-based distribution company, almost full control of news and magazine wholesaling in Scotland and parts of northern England from 2010.