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Daily Mail and General Trust
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| Daily Mail and General Trust plc | |
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| Type | Public (LSE: DMGT) |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
| Key people | Viscount Rothermere, Chairman Charles Sinclair, CEO |
| Industry | Newspapers Radio Websites |
| Revenue | UK£2,176.0 million (2006) |
| Operating income | UK£149.5 million (2006) |
| Net income | UK£251.5 million (2006) |
| Employees | 15,949 (2006) |
| Website | www.dmgt.co.uk |
Daily Mail and General Trust plc (abbreviated to DMGT) (LSE: DMGT) is one of the UK's largest media companies and has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio. While the majority of the company's activities are based in the UK, it does have worldwide operations. In June 2006 the company was relegated from the FTSE 100 index into the mid-cap FTSE 250 Index,[1] although it was promoted back into the FTSE 100 in March 2007.[2]
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The group can trace its origins back to 1896 when the Daily Mail launched, but was officially incorporated in 1922 to control Associated Newspapers Holdings expanding interests. Daily Mail and General Trust plc was fully incorporated in 1922 and its shares were first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1932. As one of the longest-established media companies in the UK, DMGT has long invested in its business in order to become one of the most successful information providers in the country.
After almost 100 years in Fleet Street, the company left its original premises of New Carmelite House in Fleet Street in 1988 to move to Northcliffe House in Kensington. 10,000 tons of rubble were removed to create the vast 115 feet high atrium, with a domed roof containing 64 tons of glass. The break-up of Fleet Street was a revolution that had to happen in the tradition-bound world of newspaper printing where powerful unions resisted efforts by the Fleet Street publishers to modernise and economise. At the same time as the newspapers moved to Kensington, the printing operation for Southern England moved eight miles away to Surrey Quays. This state-of-the-art printing centre was opened on an 11-acre site at Rotherhithe in the London Docklands in 1989.
Instant communications between editorial, advertising and pre-press departments with Harmsworth Quays Printing are crucial. All pages are made up on computer screens and the completed pages are flashed to Surrey Quays without even a proof being necessary in Northcliffe House. On arrival they are converted into negative form and are used to make the plates for the press room. Within minutes the presses are ready to run. The entire system has been developed within Associated Newspapers. The Harmsworth Quays division is now responsible for all the production services required by Associated Newspapers. A team at Surrey Quays co-ordinates the daily printing requirement for newspapers at contract sites in Belfast, Bradford, Bristol, Dundee, Glasgow, Newcastle, Plymouth, Southampton, Stoke, and Trafford Park, and abroad in Madrid, Orlando and Tenerife, and magazines with Quebecor and Polestar Group mainly at Corby and Watford.
Of these printing works, those in England also print the regional group of newspapers published by Northcliffe Media, another division of Daily Mail and General Trust. Recognising the value people place in their local newspaper, the first Viscount Rothermere founded Northcliffe in 1928. The company now owns over 100 titles with 17 publishing centres in England and Wales producing daily, weekly and free newspapers. Since 1994 DMGT has expanded from its newspaper base into a variety of media forms, both in the UK and around the world especially around investments in electronic publishing.
In November 2005 DMGT announced its intention to sell its Northcliffe regional newspaper division. On 17 February 2006 the company announced it was abandoning the sale due to the failure of the bids to 'fully reflect the long term value of the business'. In mid 2006, the company sold Studygroup, a subsidiary of DMG Information, to CHAMP, an Australian based private equity group.
- Further information: Associated Newspapers Ltd
Associated Newspapers is the national newspaper arm of DMGT and publishes the following titles
- Daily Mail - The main national newspaper owned by Associated. It sells more than two million copies per issue, giving it one of the largest circulations of any English language daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper in the world.
- Mail on Sunday - The sister paper of the Daily Mail, published weekly on Sundays. First published in 1982, it has become the most read Sunday newspaper in Britain.
- Evening Standard - The paper was launched as the Standard on May 21, 1827[3]. Paid for London newspaper, it has a dominant City and financial emphasis as well as carrying national and international news.
- Ireland on Sunday - Associated Newspapers took over the publishing of Ireland on Sunday in 2001. The title was re-launched in April 2002 to coincide with the move to its new offices in Ballsbridge, Dublin. It included TV Week magazine and in September 2006 it was merged with the Mail on Sunday and became the Irish Mail on Sunday.
- Metro - Metro is the UK’s only urban national newspaper. Launched in March 1999 as a free, stapled newspaper, it was distributed initially in London. But since has been published every weekday morning, around Yorkshire, the North West, the North East, the East Midlands, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff and Scotland. Metro’s readership is 2.2 million (NRS June ‘07), with over 1.3 million copies printed.
- Loot - not a mainstream newspaper, although is available nationally. Classified directory.
- London Lite - free sheet that was formerly called the Standard Lite, but was re-designed to compete with News International's new free sheet thelondonpaper. It is also a free sheet and is handed out by vendors in the evening around the London Zone 1 area.
- Further information: Northcliffe Media
Northcliffe Media, formerly Northcliffe Newspaper Group, is the regional, local and international multimedia arm of the Daily Mail and General Trust. It owns over 120 newspapers, with 18 of those daily and the rest weekly. It also operates a retail division with 67 outlets and has Central and Eastern European multimedia interests, especially in Hungary and Slovakia.[4]
DMG Broadcasting owns a number of media companies and is the subsidiary of DMGT that controls its British radio, television, film and interactive areas. British Pathe are one of the oldest media companies in the world. British Pathe are now owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust Group. British Pathe footage sales are now managed by ITN Source. Their roots lie in 1890s Paris where their founder, Charles Pathe, pioneered the development of the moving image. They were established in London in 1902, and by 1910 were producing their famous bi-weekly newsreel the Pathe Gazette. After the First World War they started producing various Cinemagazines as well. By 1930 they were producing the Gazette, the Pathetone Weekly, the Pathe Pictorial and Eve's Film Review, covering entertainment, culture and womens' issues. By the time Pathe finally stopped producing the cinema newsreel in 1970 they had accumulated 3500 hours of filmed history amounting to over 90,000 individual items. Over the last 30 years this material has been used extensively around the world in television programmes, home videos, advertisements, corporate productions and, most recently, in web publishing.
The Daily Mail and General Trust have a 29.9% stake in GCap Media. DMGT orriginally had a controlling stake in GWR Radio through DMG Radio, before the merger of GWR group and Capital Radio Group to create GCap. In 2002 it increased its stake to 29.97%. It is the United Kingdom's leading commercial radio group, representing 30% of the total commercial radio business. Between 1996 and 1999 GWR was a major shareholder in London News Radio, which owned and operated London's LBC and News Direct radio stations. These stations were sold to Chrysalis Radio in 2002.
Classic FM is the only nationally available analogue radio station owned by DMGT through its stake in GCap Media. On 25 December 2006 Classic FM opened a sister station theJazz, devoted to jazz music. Classic FM also runs a digital TV channel playing classical music videos, Classic FM TV. It is a British television channel that launched on 7 September 1992. It is the world's first 24-hour classical music channel, and is available free-to-air on satellite, Sky Digital and cable TV services. Classic FM TV is also available on the Internet. Classic FM publishes a monthly magazine, Classic FM Magazine, which presents news and reviews. Through GCap it owns 32 UK Local radio stations including many digital radio channels such as Core.
It also owns Greenland Interactive and 20% of ITN (Independent Television News). New Era Commercials and the Teletext services for ITV and Channel 4 are owned by DMGT.
- Further information: DMG Radio Australia
DMG Radio Australia operates commercial radio networks in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia. Formed in 1996, it has since become one of the largest radio media companies in the country. The company currently own more than 60 radio stations across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.
Headquartered in Marin County, California, DMG World Media produces over 300 conventions and trade shows for several industries, including art and antiques, home and garden, gifts, sports and leisure, industrial and technical and hospitality.
DMG Information invests in business to business information-driven companies. Foremost amongst these are Landmark Information Group, Risk Management Solutions and Environmental Data Resources.
- Further information: Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
Euromoney Institutional Investor plc is the market leader on international financial publishing and event organisation. It's one of Europe's largest business and financial magazine publishers and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The company, 70% owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust Group, was founded in 1969. The company owns close to 100 international specialist magazines in finance, energy, aviation, pharmaceuticals and law. Euromoney trains international bankers and securities specialists around the world, runs international conferences, and is very strong in electronic publishing. With offices worldwide, its shares are listed in London and Luxembourg.
DMGT has a number of prominent website assets. These include:
- Mail Online[5]
- This is Money
- Loot
- Jobsite
- Top-Consultant.com
- TopITconsultant.co.uk
- UKPlus
- Find a Property
- Primelocation (purchased from Fastcrop PLC in December 2005)
- Motors.co.uk (launched in January 2007)
- Property Sales and Investing
- This is London (Evening Standard and London Lite)
The current Chairman is the 4th Viscount Rothermere (indeed, every Viscount Rothermere has been the company's chairman) and the Chief Executive is Charles Sinclair.
- List of British television channels
- List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
- Viscount Rothermere
- Mass media
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- ^ British Library. (2000) "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century" Accessed April 13 2007.
- ^ Details of Hungarian titles. Northcliffe Media (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-04.
- ^ The Daily Mail website Mail Online
