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| Company type | Public (LSE: TNI) |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom |
Key people | Ian Gibson (Chairman of the board), Sly Bailey (CEO) |
| Products | National and regional newspapers, magazines |
| Revenue | £971.3 million (2007)[1] |
 £29.4 million (2007)[1] | |
| £67.8 million (2007)[1] | |
Number of employees | 9,300 (2007)[1] |
| Website | www.trinitymirror.com |
Trinity Mirror plc is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People, Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in London and as of October 2005 it employs around 11,000 people. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Trinity Mirror was formed in September 1999 by the merger of Trinity plc and Mirror Group plc. As a condition of the merger Trinity Mirror was forced to sell the Belfast Telegraph group, a holding of the former Trinity plc which was acquired from Thomson Regional Newspapers during previous acquisition activity.
The group has followed a programme of cost cutting in recent years at its newspapers in a bid to boost its share price*[1]. This has reduced the number of journalists employed. Other areas of the business have since been hit by much larger cost-cutting measures than editorial staff. In October 2005 it hit the news for "cancelling Christmas" as its latest cost cutting measure.* This was widely criticised by its staff on the factory forum [2][3].
Trinity Mirror's printing division, Trinity Mirror Printing Ltd, is located at nine press sites throughout the UK, printing and distributing thirty-six major newspapers for the UK, including the Daily and Sunday Mirror, The People, the two Independent titles, Scottish Daily Record, and other contract titles including titles for the Guardian Media Group.[2]
In 2007 Trinity Mirror decided to put up for sale a number of businesses: the Sports Division (Racing Post), the Trinity Mirror Southern (TMS) titles (main title: Reading Chronicle) and the Midlands division (Birmingham Post & Mail and Coventry Evening Telegraph). The sale process was said to be aiming to raise £550-600 million.[4]. The Reading Chronicle was sold to Berkshire Media Group and 25 TMS titles were sold to Northcliffe Media. On 1 October 2007 it was announced that the sale of the Racing Post had been completed, but the sale of the remaining TMS titles and the Midlands division had been halted.[5]. The entire sale process raised £263 million.
Titles
Trinity Mirror claims that over the course of one week around 20 million people read at least one Trinity Mirror newspaper—42 per cent of the adult UK population. Titles it owns, some via its subsidiary 'Mirror Group Newspapers' include:
- Barking & Dagenham Yellow Advertiser
- Bexley Mercury
- Birmingham Post / Birmingham Mail / Sunday Mercury /
- Bracknell News
- Brent & Wembley Leader
- Colne Valley Chronicle
- Coventry Evening Telegraph
- Chester Chronicle
- Crewe Chronicle
- The Daily Mirror / The Sunday Mirror
- Daily Record / Sunday Mail
- Dover Express
- Ealing Gazette
- Ealing Informer
- Ealing Leader
- Enfield Advertiser
- Enfield Gazette
- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Evening Gazette (Teesside)
- Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle
- The Glaswegian
- Haringey Advertiser
- Harrow & Wembley Observer
- Harrow Informer
- Harrow Leader
- Havering Yellow Advertiser (Romford)
- Highdown Books
- Holme Valley Express
- Hounslow Borough Chronicle
- Hounslow, Chiswick & Whitton Informer
- Huddersfield District Chronicle
- Huddersfield Examiner
- Ilford & Redbridge Yellow Advertiser
- Kensington & Chelsea Informer
- Lewisham & Grenwich Mercury
- Liverpool Daily Post
- Liverpool Echo
- Loughborough Echo
- Mitcham, Morden & Wimbledon Post
- Neath Guardian
- Newcastle Herald and Post
- The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Paisley Daily Express
- The People
- The Press (Barnet and Hendon)
- Racing Post
- Reading Chronicle
- Slough Express
- South London Press (Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Wandsworth, Croydon, Bexley and Merton)
- South Wales Echo
- Staines Informer
- Staines Leader
- Streatham, Clapham & Wews Norwood Post
- Sunday Sun (Newcastle Upon Tyne)
- Surrey Herald
- Surrey Mirror Advertiser
- Sutton & Epsom Post
- Uxbridge & Hillingdon Leader
- Uxbridge Gazette
- Walton & Weybridge Informer
- Western Mail
- The Wharf (Canary Wharf)
Trinity Mirror Scotland (Scottish and Universal Newspapers)
- Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser
- Ayrshire Post
- Blairgowrie Advertiser
- Dumfries and Galloway Standard
- East Kilbride News
- Galloway News
- Hamilton Advertiser
- Irvine Herald
- Kilmarnock Standard
- Paisley Daily Express
- Perthshire Advertiser
- Reformer
- Stirling Observer
- Strathearn Herald
- The Lennox
- West Lothian Courier
- Wishaw Press
It used to own a 43% share of The Independent.
It owned the News Letter, Donegal Democrat and Derry Journal until late 2003 when they were sold to the newly formed Local Press Ltd.
Subsidiaries
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough)
References
- ^ a b c d "Annual Report 2007" (PDF). Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ http://www.oldham.gov.uk/working/economic_profile/printing_publishing.htm Oldham's Economic Profile - Printing & Publishing], oldham.gov.uk. URL accessed March 29, 2007.