Northcliffe Media
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| Private | |
| Industry | New media |
| Successor | Local World |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Owner | Daily Mail and General Trust |
| Website | northcliffemedia |
Northcliffe Media Ltd. (formerly Northcliffe Newspapers Group) was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe, owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).
It operates from over 30 publishing centres, and also has 18 daily titles. The main publishing centres for the newspapers are South West Wales Publications in Swansea, Bristol Print Centre (now closed) in Bristol, Derby Print Centre (now closed) in Derby, Rockwell Universal in Grimsby, Leicester Print Centre (now closed) in Leicester, Plymouth Print Centre (now closed) in Plymouth and Stoke Print Centre (now closed) in Stoke on Trent. As can be seen they may well soon not operate any of their own print centres.
Northcliffe runs a print and publishing service to businesses and organisations across the UK and Ireland. It also operates a retail division with 67 outlets and has Hungarian newspaper interests. It also has risen to become one of the top two publishers, in terms of circulation, in Slovakia after as little as two-and-a-half years in the country. £22 million has been invested in the new Eastern European market since 2004. They own Avizo, the leading daily classified newspaper in Slovakia, City Express was acquired, including two fortnightly titles, Auto Burza, a motors classified product and Burza Nehnutel’nosti, a property magazine.
In 2012, the company was sold by DMGT to a newly formed company, Local World, which also bought Iliffe News and Media from the Yattendon Group.
In November 2005, the DMGT announced that it wanted to sell Northcliffe Newspapers, at the time worth over £1.5bn. It came after figures according to Ofcom announced that Northcliffe only has 16% of the regional market, compared to Trinity's 20%, Newsquest's 18% and 15% for Johnston. This was cancelled after they could not find an offer for the group as a whole. On 6 July 2007, the company bought 26 regional titles from Trinity Mirror plc for the sum of £64.15 million. The group said it had bought three of Trinity Mirror's local divisions, East Surrey and Sussex Newspapers, Kent Regional Newspapers and Blackmore Vale Publishing, included the Croydon Advertiser, Blackmore Vale Magazine, Medway News and the Kingston Informer. The sale is expected to boost Northcliffe’s circulation by 872,000 copies per week.
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