Hudson News Distributors is one of the two largest companies in the field of magazine distribution in the United States.
Through a series of acquisitions and organic growth Hudson News became one of the largest magazine distribution companies in the United States and dominant in the Northeast.
In the 1980s, Cohen took over a bankrupt newsstand operator the company was supplying at Newark Airport.
This was a separate subsidiary from Hudson News Distributors also owned by the Cohen family.
In 2008, private equity firm Advent International acquired the Hudson Group the retail operation, and merged Swiss duty-free retailer Dufry of Basel, Switzerland with the Hudson Group.