Local World
Type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Publishing |
Founded | 2012 |
Defunct | 2015 (merged into Trinity Mirror) |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | David Montgomery Chief Executive Officer Rachel Addison Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer |
Owner | Reach plc |
Subsidiaries | List of Subsidiaries |
Website | www |
Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites. It was formed in 2012 by David Montgomery, a former chief executive of Trinity Mirror, to buy the Daily Mail and General Trust's Northcliffe Media business, and the Yattendon Group's Iliffe newspaper group.[1]
In October 2015 Trinity Mirror, now Reach plc, bought the company.[2] The sale was completed on 13 November 2015.[3] In April 2017 the Local World website started redirecting to the Trinity Mirror website.[4]
History[]
Local World was established in 2012 by David Montgomery, in order to purchase local newspaper businesses. In November 2012 it was announced that it would purchase Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust, and separately, the Iliffe newspaper group from the Yattendon Group.[1] The purchase of the businesses was approved by the Office of Fair Trading on 28 June 2013.[5]
In September 2015, Daily Mail and General Trust confirmed it had entered into talks to sell Local World to Trinity Mirror;[6] the sale was completed the following month.[7]
Titles[]
Local World[]
- (Hull)
- Axholme Herald
- Bath Chronicle
- Bath Times
- Boston Standard
- series
- Brides in Cornwall
- Bridgwater Times
- Bristol Post
- Bristol Observer series
- Burnham and Highbridge Times
- Carmarthen Journal
- Clevedon Mercury
- Cornish Guardian
- Cornwall Today
- The Croydon Advertiser
- Croydon Post
- Derby Telegraph
- Derby Express Group
- Dover Express
- Essex Chronicle
- East Grinstead Courier
- East Kent Gazette
- Faversham Times
- Express & Echo
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Grimsby Target
- Grimsby Telegraph
- Hull Daily Mail
- Kingston Informer
- Kent and Sussex Courier
- Leicester Mercury
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Medway News
- Mid Somerset Series
- News In Focus
- North Devon Journal
- Nottingham Post
- Retford Times
- Scunthorpe Telegraph
- Sevenoaks Chronicle
- Somerset Guardian Standard
- South Wales Evening Post
- The Sentinel
- Sutton Coldfield Observer
- Surrey Mirror
- Swansea Herald of Wales
- Tamworth Herald
- Taunton Times
- The Citizen (Gloucester)
- The Cornishman
- The Herald (Plymouth)
- Torquay Herald Express
- Venue (Bristol)
Iliffe News and Media titles[]
- Cambridge News
- Hertfordshire Mercury
- The Advertiser
- Bedfordshire on Sunday
- Dunstable on Sunday
- Leighton Buzzard on Sunday
- Luton on Sunday
- OneMK (Milton Keynes)
- Burton Mail
- Staffordshire Newsletter
- Ashbourne News Telegraph
- Uttoxeter Advertiser
- Black Country Bugle
- Your Leek Paper
- Nuneaton News
- Staffordshire Life
Websites[]
- Kent Live
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World". BBC News. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ "Trinity Mirror buys newspaper rival Local World". BBC News. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "Trinity Mirror PLC". Local World. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
- ^ "www.localworld.co.uk". Wayback Machine. 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ Gavriel Hollander (28 June 2013). "OFT clearance for Local World deal". Press Gazette. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ^ Soumithri, Mamidipudi (14 September 2015). "Trinity Mirror in talks to buy rival Local World". Reuters. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ Sweney, Mark (28 October 2015). "Trinity Mirror confirms £220m Local World deal". The Guardian.
- Daily Mail and General Trust
- Northcliffe Media
- Reach plc
- Newspaper companies of the United Kingdom
- 2012 establishments in England