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Daily Mail and General Trust Ltd. share dated September 4, 1946

Daily Mail and General Trust plc ( DMGT for short ) is one of the largest media companies in the UK . The group holds stakes in numerous daily newspapers, television and radio stations, primarily in Great Britain , but also worldwide. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It has been listed in the FTSE 100 index since March 2007 , previously it was in the FTSE 250 and until June 2006 in the FTSE 100, ISIN GB0009458117. Headquarters is in London . In the 2007/2008 financial year, the company employed 17,424 people.

management

Chairman (director) is currently Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (also all previous Viscount Rothermere were directors of the company), CEO is Charles JF Sinclair.

history

The group of companies traces its history back to 1896, when the Daily Mail first appeared. The DMGT company itself was founded in 1922.

In mid-2006, DGMT sold the Studygroup , a subsidiary of DMG Information , to the Australian private equity group CHAMP.

Key figures

In 2006 DMGT had sales of £ 2.176 billion  (equivalent to around EUR 3.195 billion), an operating profit of £ 149.5 million and a net profit of £ 251.5 million.

Holdings

Newspapers

Associated Newspapers

• Daily Mail
• Evening Standard
• Mail on Sunday
• Ireland on Sunday (merged with Mail on Sunday to Irish Mail on Sunday since September 2006)
• metro

More newspapers

• London Lite
• Loot

DMG broadcasting

• British Pathe
• GWR Group (29.9%)
  • Classic FM
  • Core radio
  • 32 local radio stations in the UK
• Greenland Interactive
• Independent Television News (ITN), 20%
• New Era Commercials
• Teletext Ltd

DMG Broadcasting Australia

• 64 radio stations

DMG events

The headquarters of the DMG Events subgroup (previously: DMG World Media) is located in Dubai , United Arab Emirates: DMG World Media produces over 300 programs for a wide variety of industries, such as art and antiques, home and garden, gifts, sports and leisure, industry, Technology and accommodation.

DMG information

In 2006 DMG Information acquired Genscape , a US company that u. a. Provides information on energy markets. In 2013, Genscape acquired the German company Vesseltracker , which markets ship positions.

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC

• Conferences and events
• Issued various publications

Northcliffe

• 92 local newspapers in the UK.

Web links

• Homepage Daily Mail and General Trust
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Daily Mail and General Trust in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Group profile on mediadb.eu
2. ↑ Contact. dmgevents.com, accessed June 29, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Genscape Completes Acquisition of Vesseltracker.com GmbH … ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Genscape.com (English) 
4. ↑ DMGT Annual Report 2013 , p. 6 (English)