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Johnston Press plc (LSE: JPR) is a newspaper publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It runs The Scotsman publications and other newspapers around the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man. It is the second largest local newspaper publisher in the UK. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until 22 December 2008, when it became one of three media companies to fall out of the index.[1]
History
The Company was established in Falkirk in 1767 as F. Johnston & Co Ltd.[2] Its first major acquisition was in 1970 when it bought Strachan & Livingston in Fife.[2] In 1978 it bought Wilfred Edmunds in Chesterfield, publisher of the Derbyshire Times and The Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group in Wakefield.[2] It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1988 when it was renamed Johnston Press.[2]
The Company bought The West Sussex County Times in 1988, The Halifax Evening Courier in 1994 and the newspaper intests of EMAP plc in 1996.[2] Further expansion followed with Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers in 1999 and Regional Independent Media Holdings in 2002.[2]
The Company expanded into the Irish market in 2005 by purchasing Local Press Ltd, a company owned by 3i (£65 million),[3] the newspaper assets of Scottish Radio Holdings, known as Score Press with forty-five titles in Scotland and Ireland (£155 million),[4] and the Leinster Leader Group (€138.6 million).[5] The titles were then reorganised into three main holding companies: Derry Journal Newspapers (Counties Donegal and Londonderry), Johnston Publishing (NI) (everywhere else in Northern Ireland) and Johnston Press Ireland (along with four smaller companies everywhere else in the Republic).
The Company acquired Scotsman Publications in 2006.[6]
British newspapers owned by Johnston Press
The following is a partial list of British Newspapers owned by the Company:
Irish Newspapers owned by Johnston Press
In total, twenty-two titles are published in Northern Ireland, fourteen in the Republic and one in both:
Johnston Publishing (NI)
Daily
Local
Free Titles
- Banbridge & District Weekender
- Belfast News
- Craigavon Echo
- East Antrim Advertiser
- Lisburn Echo
- Mid Ulster Echo
- North West Echo
Derry Journal Newspapers
Local
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Free Titles
Johnston Press Ireland
Kilkenny People Ltd
Limerick Leader Ltd
Nationalist Newspaper Co
Tallaght Publishing Ltd
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Websites owned by Johnston Press
The Company owns the following websites:
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