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Desmond
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
beginnings
1879
birth of William Maxwell Aitken
1909 forms Canada Cement Co
1910 Aitken moves to England, becomes conservative MP
for Ashton-under-Lyne
1911 gains control of Globe
1911 kinighted
1914 Canadian government representative at British GHQ
FRance
Beaverbrook's Express
1916 buys Daily Express
1916 becomes baronet
1916 helps Lloyd George to oust Asquith as Prime Minister
1917 becomes baron
1918
Sunday Express launched
1918 becomes Minister of Information
1918 becomes member of Privy Council
1918 launches Sunday Express
1923 Sir Edward Hulton sells
Evening Standard, Daily Sketch, the Sunday
Herald and other titles to Beaverbrook for £6 million.
1923 Beaverbrook takes stake in Rothermere's
group, gains Evening Standard
1924 Rothermere and Beaverbrook sell Hulton provincial
titles and Glasgow Daily Record to Iliffe
& Berry's Allied Newspapers
1925 Beaverbrook and Rothermere sell Daily Sketch
to Allied Newspapers
1933 Beaverbrook sells Rothermere stake
1924 first crossword in a British newspaper, in the Sunday
Express
'Minister for Mischief'?
1940-41 Minister of Aircraft Production
1941-42 Minister of Supply
1942 Minister of War Production
1942 Special Envoy to the United States on Supplies
1943-45 Lord Privy Seal
1964 death of Lord Beaverbrook
merge and churn
1977 Beaverbrook Newspapers bought by Trafalgar House
Investments and renamed Express Newspapers
1982 Trafalgar spins off media and shipping interests
as Fleet Holdings
1985 Fleet bought by UK regional publisher United
Newspapers
1993 United buys ten newspapers from porn czar Richard
Desmond
1993 Desmond launches OK!
1996 United becomes part of MAI group and renamed United
News & Media
the Desmond era
2000 United News & Media sells Express newspapers
to Desmond for £125m
2002 Express launches Daily Star Sunday
2003 launches New! magazine
2004 Desmond sells adult content magazines
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