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Johnston
Press is the fourth largest UK newspaper publisher. Sales
in 2001 were £300.6m and £264.6m in 2005. Pretax
profits in 2005 were £82.2m. The group has 276 UK
titles, of which the most prominent are the Yorkshire
Post and The Scotsman.
the group
Johnston Press traces its history to establishment of
F Johnston & Co in Falkirk in 1767.
It has grown through acquisition of local/regional titles,
often shed by the metropolitan-based chains (eg titles
from Trinity Mirror in 2001/2
and EMAP's newspaper operations
in 1996).
F Johnston & Co Ltd became a fully listed public company
on the LSE in 1988 and changed its name to Johnston Press
plc. It
is controlled by the Johnston family.
In 2005 Emap announced a deal to
acquire Scottish Radio Holdings and sell the SRH newspaper
division (Score Press), made up of 35 regional weekly
titles (16 in Scotland, 24 in Northern Ireland and five
in Eire), to Johnston for £155 million. Johnston
subsequently acquired The Scotsman, Edinburgh
Evening News and Scotland on Sunday
from the Barclay brothers for
£160m
The group's corporate site is here.
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