Northcliffe Media
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Northcliffe Media (formerly Northcliffe Newspapers Group) was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe. In 2012 the company was sold by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) to a newly formed company, Local World,[1] which also bought Iliffe News and Media from the Yattendon Group. In October 2015, Trinity Mirror, later Reach plc, bought Local World.[2]
Company type | Private |
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Industry | New media |
Defunct | November 21, 2015 (2015-11-21) |
Successor | Local World |
Headquarters | , |
Owner | Daily Mail and General Trust |
Website | Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine |
It operated from over 30 publishing centres, and also had 18 daily titles. The main publishing centres for the newspapers were South West Wales Publications in Swansea, Bristol Print Centre in Bristol, Derby Print Centre in Derby, Rockwell Universal in Grimsby, Leicester Print Centre in Leicester, Plymouth Print Centre in Plymouth and Stoke Print Centre in Stoke on Trent. All publishing centres except Swansea and Grimsby have since closed.
Northcliffe ran a print and publishing service to businesses and organisations across the UK and Ireland. It also operated a retail division with 67 outlets and had Hungarian newspaper interests.[3] It also claimed to be one of the top two publishers, in terms of circulation, in Slovakia after 2+1⁄2 years in the country, and to have invested £22 million in the Eastern European market between 2004 and 2007.[4] They owned 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.