DC Thomson
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| Private | |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Founder | David Coupar Thomson |
| Headquarters | 2 Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 9QJ, Scotland |
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Key people
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Andrew Thomson (chairman) |
| Products |
Sunday Post, The Evening Telegraph My Weekly, Jackie, Shout The Beano, The Dandy, Commando See also: list of DC Thomson Publications |
| Revenue |
 £245 million (2016) |
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£30.06 million (2016) |
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| Total assets |
 £1.404 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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2,148 (2016) |
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| Website | www |
DC Thomson is a British publishing and television production company best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy, and Commando comics. It also owns Parragon and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the Press and Journal. It was a significant shareholder in the former ITV company Southern Television. Through its subsidiary DC Thomson Family History the company owns several websites including Friends Reunited and Findmypast. Based in Dundee, Scotland, the company also owns children books publisher Parragon.
The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Company, publishers of Dundee Courier and Daily Argus. In 1884, David Coupar Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as D.C. Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the "Three Js", the traditional summary of Dundee industry ('jam, jute and journalism'). Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics. Among historians of popular culture, the firm has 'excited a good deal of interest precisely because it has always shrouded its activities in secrecy... [it] has never allowed scholars access to its archives, and has declined to participate in exhibitions of juvenile literature.'
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