Mirror Group
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Headquarters |
One Canada Square Canary Wharf, London, England |
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Key people
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David Grigson (Chairman of the board), Simon Fox (CEO) |
| Products | National and regional newspapers, magazines |
| Revenue | £636.3 million (2014) |
| £98.6 million (2014) | |
| Profit | £81.6 million (2014) |
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Number of employees
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3,900 (2015) |
| Subsidiaries | Local World |
| Website | www |
Trinity Mirror plc is the largest British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher after purchasing rival Local World for £220 million, in October 2015. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Since purchasing Local World in November 2015, it has gained 83 print publications. Trinity Mirror's headquarters are at Canary Wharf in London. Listed on the , it is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.
The Daily Mirror was launched by Alfred Harmsworth (Viscount Northcliffe) "for gentlewomen" in 1903. The company was first listed on the on 2 December 1953.
In 1958 the International Publishing Company (IPC) acquired Mirror Group Newspapers, but IPC was in turn taken over by publishing giant Reed International in 1970. In 1984 Pergamon Holdings, a company owned by Robert Maxwell, acquired the Daily Mirror from Reed International. The company was relisted as Mirror Group in 1991.
The company went on to buy Scottish & Universal Newspapers in 1992, and in 1997 it acquired the Birmingham Post and Mail.
Trinity Mirror was formed in September 1999 as an acquisition by Trinity International plc, a company formed in 1985 which was previously called the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (LDPE). In a shrewd move, the LDPE created a new "holding" company, based in Chester, moving from Old Hall Street in LIverpool where the LDPE was based. Effectively Trinity Holdings devolved from the LDPE and by distancing itself from its Liverpool flagships it made a statement of ambition and intent.
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