Johnston Press

Johnston Press plc
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Company type	Public (JSE: JPR
Industry	Newspapers
Founded	1767
Headquarters	Edinburgh, UK
Key people	Roger Parry, Chairman ; John Fry, CEO
Revenue	£293.1 million (2008)
Operating income	£(34.5) million (2008)
Net income	£(64.8) million (2008)
Website	www.johnstonpress.co.uk

Johnston Press plc (JSE: 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 is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

History

The Company established in Falkirk in 1767 as F. Johnston & Co Ltd.^[1] Its first major acquisition was in 1970 when it bought Strachan & Livingston.^[1] In 1978 it bought Wilfred Edmunds in Chesterfield and The Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group in Wakefield.^[1] It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1988 when it was renamed Johnston Press.^[1]

The Company went on to buy The West Sussex County Times in 1988, The Halifax Evening Courier in 1994 and the newspaper intests of EMAP plc in 1996.^[1] Further expansion followed with Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers in 1999, Regional Independent Media Holdings in 2002 and Scotsman Publications in 2006.^[1]

British newspapers owned by Johnston Press

The following is a list of British Newspapers owned by the Company:

Irish Newspapers owned by Johnston Press

The company expanded into the Irish market in 2005 by purchasing Local Press Ltd, a 3i holding company (£65 million);^[2], the newspaper assets of Scottish Radio Holdings, known as Score Press with forty-five titles in Scotland and Ireland (£155 million)^[3]; and the Leinster Leader Group (€138.6 million). ^[4] 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). In total, twenty-two titles are published in Northern Ireland, fourteen in the Republic and one in both.