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Daily Mail and General Trust plc

Type	Public limited company
Traded as	LSE: DMGT
Industry	Newspapers Radio Websites Insurance
Founded	1922
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	The Viscount Rothermere (Chairman) Martin Morgan (Chief Executive)
Revenue	£1,989.8 million (2011)[1]
Operating income	£164.3 million (2011)[1]
Net income	£127.5 million (2011)[1]
Employees	14,000 (2012)[2]
Website	www.dmgt.co.uk

Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media conglomerate, one of the largest in Europe. In the UK, it has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio. The company has extensive activities based outside the UK, through Northcliffe Media, DMG Radio Australia, DMG World Media, DMG Information. Its biggest markets apart from the UK are in the United States, eastern Europe, and Australia. As of October 2010, it is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index on the London Stock Exchange. ^[3] Viscount Rothermere is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company.^[4] The head office is located in the Northcliffe House in Kensington, London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

History[link]

The group can trace its origins back to launch of the mid market national newspaper the Daily Mail by Harold Harmsworth and his elder brother, Alfred, in 1896.^[5] It was incorporated in 1922 and its shares were first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1932. Harmsworth, who had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Rothermere, was editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley^[5] and the British Union of Fascists and he wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934.^[6] 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".^[7]

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. At the same time as the newspapers moved to Kensington, the printing operation for Southern England moved four miles (6 km) away to Surrey Quays. This state-of-the-art printing centre was opened on an 11-acre (45,000 m²) site at Rotherhithe in the London Docklands in 1989.^[8]

In mid 2006, the company sold Studygroup, a subsidiary of DMG Information, to CHAMP, an Australian based private equity group.^[9]

Divisions[link]

Associated Newspapers[link]

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.
• The Mail on Sunday – The sister paper of the Daily Mail, published weekly on Sundays. First published in 1982.
• 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.
• Mail Today – A 48-page compact size newspaper launched in India on 16 November 2007 that is printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the Daily Mail and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the Daily Mail newsroom.^[10] Indian foreign media ownership laws restrict holdings to 26 percent.
• 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, Newcastle and 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.

The London Evening Standard, in modern times the dominant paid-for London-area local newspaper, was owned by Associated until it was sold to Alexander Lebedev in January 2009. Since then it has been made free as of October 2009. Associated News still maintains a minority share. Associated Newspapers also owned Loot, a nationally-available classifieds newspaper, from 2001 until 2010, when it was sold to Printing Investments Ltd.

A team at Surrey Quays co-ordinates the daily printing requirement for newspapers at contract sites in Belfast, Bradford, Bristol, Didcot, 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.

Northcliffe Media[link]

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.^[11]

Northcliffe International[link]

Northcliffe International is the Central and Eastern European multimedia enterprise arm of Northcliffe Media. It has newspapers throughout Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, with their biggest market in Hungary. They also have website interests in Croatia, owning four shopping, home and car websites as well as in Slovakia and Hungary.

The international arm began in 1989, when the Northcliffe Newspaper Group acquired Kisalföld, the largest regional newspaper in Hungary, serving the north-western county of Gyor-Sopron. The group later acquired Délmagyarország, the largest daily title in the south-east of the country, and the English-language weekly newspaper, The Budapest Sun. Northcliffe also invested significantly in new headquarters and printing plants in both Gyor and Szeged.