Daily Mail and General Trust
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| Public limited company | |
| Traded as | : |
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Newspapers Land & Property Websites Insurance Energy Education |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Headquarters | Northcliffe House, Kensington, London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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The Viscount Rothermere (Chairman) Paul Zwillenberg (CEO) |
| Revenue | £1.86 billion (2014) |
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Number of employees
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9600 (2014) |
| Website | www |
Daily Mail and General Trust plc manages a multinational portfolio of companies, with total revenues of almost £2bn, that provide a diverse range of businesses and consumers with information, analysis, insight, news and entertainment. The company operates in over 40 countries through its subsidiaries RMS, dmg information, dmg events, Euromoney Institutional Investor, dmg media and JVs and Associates. It is listed on the .Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company. The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London.
The group can trace its origins back to launch of the mid market national newspaper the Daily Mail by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, and his elder brother, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, in 1896. It was incorporated in 1922 and its shares were first listed on the in 1932. Harmsworth, who had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Rothermere, was editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists and he wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934. Referring to Adolf Hitler's proposed invasion of Czechoslovakia, Rothermere, again writing in the Daily Mail, said in 1938 that "Czechs were of no concern to Englishmen".
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.
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), which targets the global property and casualty reinsurance industry, producing risk analysis models, services, expertise and data solutions for use in the quantification and management of catastrophic risk, is a market leader in catastrophe risk modelling, and is a subsidiary of the DMGT group.
dmg information invests in business-to-business information-driven companies. It aims to invest in high-growth businesses offering information to niche markets. dmg information is headquartered in the US, with its main office in Connecticut and other offices in California and Massachusetts. Foremost amongst these are Landmark Information Group, Genscape and Environmental Data Resources. In 2006 dmg information bought Genscape, a US company that supplies information on the energy market. Genscape is the market-leading provider of real-time energy generation and transmission information to the energy trading markets in North America and Europe. dmg information also owns Xceligent, Trepp, Hobsons and SearchFlow. dmgi has also invested in Skymetweather.com (India), Real Capital Analytics (USA), Sanborn (USA), Point X (Great Britain), Propstack (India), Liases Foras (India), Funcent (China), dmg events (Britain), ARC, iprof (India).
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