Newsquest
Newsquest London is the largest division of Newsquest Media Group, one of the leading regional newspaper publishers in the UK.
Newsquest's daily, evening, weekly and Sunday titles cover key towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales. In fact, with a combined readership of more than 14 million people†, Newsquest's 300-plus titles are read by almost a quarter of the population. Daily titles include The Glasgow Herald, the South Wales Argus, the Oxford Mail, which often featured in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, and Southampton's Southern Daily Echo.
In London we have a weekly readership of 3,161,749†. Our 24 paid-for and 44 free newspapers cover 9 counties and 30 London boroughs.
A founding partner in Fish4, the UK's biggest classified brand, Newsquest is a major internet player with 29 regional portals and newspaper sites in London alone, including the award-winning thisislocallondon.co.uk. The London websites attract a combined monthly audience of 475,000 unique users‡, who between them consume 2.75 million pages of news, sport, information and classified advertising.
Newsquest (London) Ltd is a subsidiary of Newsquest Media Group Ltd—a Gannett company. Registered office: Newspaper House, 58 Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8DP. Registered Number 3105111 (England).
Door to door
Nationally, Newsquest's thriving letterbox division is second only to the Royal Mail in the number of items delivered to homes across the country. London alone delivers between 6 and 7 million leaflets and samples in an average week.
Charity
In the past three years, Newsquest has awarded more than £4 million to local community groups in the UK, thanks to the Gannett Foundation, a charity set up by our American parent company. Gannett publishes more than 1,000 newspapers across America, including the nation's largest-selling daily, USA Today. It also runs 21 TV stations and thousands of websites.
Illustrious past
The oldest continuously published newspaper in the world, Berrow's Worcester Journal, which was first published in 1709 (the year journalist Dr Samuel Johnson was born), is a Newsquest title. In London our most venerable papers include the Surrey Comet (1854), the Bucks Free Press (1856), the Watford Observer (1863) and the Richmond and Twickenham Times (1873).
Not counting the army of newspaper boys and girls, Newsquest employs almost 10,000 people, 500 of whom work in London. The company's head office is in Weybridge, Surrey.
Printing
Magazine contract printing division Southernprint prints many of the UK's leading magazine titles. Newsquest is also a leading publisher of business-to-business magazines and specialist consumer titles ranging from Classic Record Collector to Boxing News. The company has eleven newspaper print sites up and down the country at which, alongside Newsquest's own titles, many national papers are printed, including the Daily Telegraph.
†ABC/JICREG
‡Web Abacus
A brief history
- Newsquest was formed in January 1996 in order to effect a management buy-out of Reed Regional Newspapers. The successful bid was backed by a private equity partnership.
- Business effectively doubled in size in December 1996 when Newsquest acquired newspaper publisher Westminster Press.
- In October 1997 Newsquest floated on the London Stock Exchange.
- US-based news and information company Gannett acquired Newsquest in July 1999 for £1.03 billion in cash and assumed debt.
- Newsquest joined forces with several other regional press groups to launch fish4, the UK's biggest online classified brand.
- Southernprint, one of Europe's leading producers of magazines and catalogues, became part of Newsquest in June 2000. The company was founded as Sydney J Mates & Sons in 1846.
- Exchange Enterprises, owner of two of Britain's best-known classified advertising brands, Exchange&Mart and AutoExchange, became part of the Newsquest family in 2005.
- Newsquest Marketing was launched in June 2006 to help our customers with their marketing communications activities.
