Reach plc

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Reach plc
Company typePublic limited company
LSE: RCH
IndustryPublishing
Founded1903; 122 years ago (1903)
HeadquartersOne Canada Square
London, England, UK[1]
Key people
ProductsNational and regional newspapers, magazines
(see list of titles)
RevenueDecrease £568.6 million (2023)[2]
Decrease £96.5 million (2023)[2]
Decrease £21.5 million (2023)[2]
Websitewww.reachplc.com

Reach plc (known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher. It is one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, publishing 240 regional papers in addition to the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The Sunday People, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Star Sunday as well as the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail and the magazine OK! Since purchasing Local World, it has gained 83 print publications. Reach plc's headquarters are at the One Canada Square in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

History

The Daily Mirror was launched by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, "for gentlewomen" in 1903.[3] The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 2 December 1953.[4] In 1958 the International Publishing Company (IPC) acquired Mirror Group Newspapers, but IPC was in turn taken over by publishing giant Reed International in 1970.[5] In 1984 Pergamon Holdings, a company owned by Robert Maxwell, acquired the Daily Mirror[3] from Reed International. The company was relisted as Mirror Group in 1991.[6]

In 1991 the company was due to be investigated via an Anton Piller order for alleged theft of software from companies including Adobe Inc., Autodesk and Microsoft. The action was delayed as it coincided with Maxwell's death, but was recommenced in 1992. Subsequently it was reported that "At the Mirror Group, for instance, 700 out of the 800 software programs in use were found to be illegal".[7]

The company bought Scottish & Universal Newspapers in 1992, and in 1997 it acquired the Birmingham Post and Mail group of newspapers.[3] In 1999 Trinity International Holdings, owners of the Liverpool Echo, merged with Mirror Group to form Trinity Mirror.[8]

During 2005 the company introduced a number of measures to manage discretionary spending more carefully, some of which attracted press attention.[9]

In 2007, the company sought to sell a number of titles: the Reading Chronicle was sold to Berkshire Media Group[10] and 25 Trinity Mirror South titles were sold to Northcliffe Media.[11] On 1 October 2007 it was announced that the sale of the Racing Post had been completed: the entire sale process had raised £263 million.[12]

The Trinity Mirror logo used until May 2018

In September 2008 the company announced that it would be closing the printing plant in Liverpool after 154 years of printing in the city, and transferring the work to Oldham.[13]

In February 2010, Trinity Mirror bought the regional M.E.N. Media and S&B Media divisions of Guardian Media Group, containing 22 local titles across Northern England and in Surrey and Berkshire. This included the Manchester Evening News and Reading Evening Post.[14]

In March 2010 Trinity Mirror stated that it would end its bout of staff cuts and newspaper closures. The announcement came as the company reported pre-tax profits of £72.7m for 2009, exceeding analysts expectations.[15]

In January 2012 it was announced Trinity Mirror acquired Communicator Corp, a digital communications company specialising in email and mobile communications for £8m.[16] In August 2013, Trinity Mirror announced its partnership with whocanfixmycar.com, a portal connecting motorists nationwide with trusted local garages and mechanics.[17]

In June 2014, Trinity Mirror transitioned its online bingo software from Dragonfish to Virtue Fusion from Playtech for its group of bingo brands.[18]

In November 2015, Trinity Mirror purchased Local World, a major stakeholder in local news titles, from DMGT. Local World had been formed by former Trinity chief exec David Montgomery in 2012 to consolidate all DMGT's local newspaper holdings other than the Metro, expanding their holdings while streamlining production, to make the group more saleable. Its 115 titles were formed primarily by those of Harmsworth's historic Northcliffe Newspapers Group, alongside other smaller purchases made by DMGT and Local World subsequently, including the 2007 purchase from Trinity. The purchase increased Trinity Mirror's local circulation by around 50%. The deal valued Local World at around £220 million.[19]

In February 2018, the company completed the acquisition of the publishing assets of Northern & Shell, including the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star (collectively the Express & Star Group), and OK!.[20] Following completion, Trinity Mirror announced a plan to rebrand as Reach, subject to investor approval at a meeting scheduled for May 2018.[21] Following completion of the acquisition, the Competition and Markets Authority launched a preliminary investigation into the deal, requiring Trinity Mirror to keep Express Newspapers as a standalone entity.[22]

In July 2020, Reach announced that it was cutting 550 jobs, 12% of its workforce, because of falling income amid reduced demand for advertising in its titles.[23]

Phone hacking

In January 2011, former MP Paul Marsden announced that he was considering taking legal action against Trinity Mirror, over alleged phone hacking.[24] On 24 September 2014, Trinity Mirror admitted that some of its journalists had been involved in phone hacking.[25][26] It admitted liability and agreed to pay compensation to four people who had sued for the alleged hacking of voicemails (entertainer Shane Richie, soap actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin and BBC creative director Alan Yentob). The four also received an apology. Trinity Mirror also announced that it had earlier settled six other phone hacking claims in relation to former England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, footballer Garry Flitcroft, actor Christopher Eccleston, showbusiness agent Phil Dale, Richie's wife Christine Roche and Abbie Gibson, a former nanny of David and Victoria Beckham. As of September 2014, a further 19 claims were registered at the High Court and another 10 claimants had indicated they would bring proceedings against Trinity Mirror.[27] Other reports claimed that the number of victims could be much higher, with Evan Harris, associate director of the pressure group Hacked Off describing the revelations as: "… just the tip of a very big iceberg".[28] On 6 November 2014, Graham Johnson, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court.[29]

On 13 February 2015, Trinity Mirror published a public apology to "all its victims of phone hacking" on page two of the Daily Mirror.[30] It also set aside funds to cover the cost of settling phone hacking compensation payments.[31] The same apology was printed in the following editions of the Sunday People and Sunday Mirror.[31]

A hearing at the High Court in London heard on 3 March 2015 that one Mirror group journalist had hacked the phones of some 100 celebrities every day and that 109 stories had been published about just seven claimants.[32] On 21 May 2015, damages totalling nearly £1.25m were awarded to eight people as the result of phone hacking by Mirror Group journalists, including actress Sadie Frost (£260,000) and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne (£188,250). Other damages recipients included soap opera actors Shane Richie (£155,000), Shobna Gulati (£117,500) and Lucy Benjamin (real name Lucy Taggart, £157,250), as well as BBC creative director Alan Yentob (£85,000), TV producer Robert Ashworth (former husband of Coronation Street actress Tracy Shaw, £201,250) and flight attendant Lauren Alcorn (former girlfriend of footballer Rio Ferdinand, £72,500).[33] The Mirror Group said it would consider whether to seek permission to appeal against the size of the damages, but increased the money allocated to deal with phone hacking claims from £12 million to £28 million.[33]

On 15 December 2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex was awarded £140,600 by the High Court in damages against Mirror Group Newspapers after 15 out of 33 sample articles in his claim against MGN were ruled as being the product of phone hacking or other unlawful information gathering.[34][35][36]

Operations

Newspapers

Further information: List of Reach plc titles

Reach plc's printing division, Reach Printing Services,[37] is located at nine press sites throughout the UK, printing and distributing thirty-six major newspapers for the UK, including the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, the Sunday People, the Daily Record (in Scotland), and other contract titles including titles for the Guardian Media Group.[38] Reach plc also owns a number of local titles in Northern England and in Surrey and Berkshire, after acquiring a number of titles from the Guardian Media Group in 2010.[14]

Digital

In 2013, Trinity Mirror launched the content websites UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d on an experimental basis. UsVsTh3m was a website similar to BuzzFeed focused on quizzes and Flash games, edited by B3ta founder Rob Manuel and running the Tumblr platform. Ampp3d focused on data journalism[39][40] and used the WordPress platform. Both websites were closed down in 2015.[41]

References

  1. ^ Massey, Jon (3 March 2016). "Trinity Mirror pledges its future to Canary Wharf for a further 10 years". The Wharf. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Annual Results 2023" (PDF). Reach. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Molloy, Mike (29 November 2013). "Wade's world". The Independent. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  4. ^ London Stock Exchange. London Stock Exchange (2 December 1953).
  5. ^ IPC Media website. Ipcmedia.com.
  6. ^ "Maxwell Scandal Timeline". Accountancyage.com. 29 March 2001..
  7. ^ Whybrow, Martin (12 October 1992). "PC pirates who sail the software seas: Rogue programs are bad news for supplier and user alike, warns Martin Whybrow". The Independent. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  8. ^ Wright, Jade (25 August 2007). "Trusted voices of Liverpool". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Trinity Mirror cancels Christmas - Press Gazette". 14 June 2009. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009.
  10. ^ Tryhorn, Chris (19 July 2007). "Trinity Mirror sells Berkshire Regionals for £10m]". The Guardian.
  11. ^ Fenton, Ben. (7 July 2007) Northcliffe buys 25 titles from Trinity Mirror. Financial Times.
  12. ^ Edgecliffe, Andrew. (1 October 2007) Trinity Mirror calls halt to disposals. Financial Times.
  13. ^ Luft, Oliver (5 September 2008). "Up to 100 jobs at risk as Trinity Mirror plans to close Liverpool print plant". The Guardian.
  14. ^ a b "Manchester Evening News sold by Guardian Media Group". Manchester Evening News. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  15. ^ "Trinity Mirror to stop cutbacks". 4 March 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
  16. ^ Sweney, Mark (4 January 2012). "Trinity Mirror buys email and mobile firm Communicator Corp for £8m". The Guardian.
  17. ^ "Home - Trinity Mirror plc".
  18. ^ "Trinity Mirror Transitioning to Virtue Fusion". bingoreviewer.co.uk. 6 June 2014.
  19. ^ Sweney, Mark (28 October 2015). "Trinity Mirror confirms £220m Local World deal". The Guardian.
  20. ^ "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Trinity Mirror plc. p. 3. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  21. ^ Sweney, Mark (5 March 2018). "Trinity Mirror to rebrand as Reach after Express and Star deal". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  22. ^ Sweney, Mark (23 April 2018). "Mirror takeover of Express and Star faces fresh investigation". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  23. ^ Partridge, Joanna (7 July 2020). "Mirror and Express owner Reach to cut 550 jobs" – via www.theguardian.com.
  24. ^ "Phone-hacking: Review to consider new claims", BBC News, 24 January 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  25. ^ Gallivan, Rory and Zekaria, Simon (September 2014) "Trinity Mirror Admits Liability Over Phone Hacking", Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014
  26. ^ Sweney, Mark (September 2014). "Trinity Mirror faces up to the financial fallout as phone-hacking claims mount", The Guardian, 28 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  27. ^ "Phone-hacking: Trinity Mirror admits liability", BBC News online, 24 September 2014 (Retrieved 29 September 2014)
  28. ^ Cusick, James and Milmo, Cahal (September 2014). "Trinity Mirror 'could face hundreds of claims' from phone hacking victims", The Independent, 24 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  29. ^ "Ex-Sunday Mirror reporter Graham Johnson admits phone hacking". BBC News. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  30. ^ Plunkett, John (13 February 2015). "Daily Mirror prints apology to phone-hacking victims". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  31. ^ a b "Phone-hacking: Trinity Mirror apologises to its victims". BBC News. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  32. ^ "Phone hacking 'rife' at Mirror Group Newspapers". BBC News. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  33. ^ a b "Phone hacking: Celebrities win damages from Mirror Group". BBC News. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  34. ^ Ward, Victoria (15 December 2023). "Prince Harry was victim of phone hacking by Mirror newspapers, judge rules". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  35. ^ Coughlan, Sean (15 December 2023). "Harry wins 15 claims in phone-hacking case against Mirror publisher". BBC News. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  36. ^ Siddique, Haroon (15 December 2023). "Prince Harry v Mirror Group: key findings of the phone-hacking case". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  37. ^ "Reach Printing Services Ltd". reachprintingservices.co.uk.
  38. ^ "Oldham's Economic Profile - Printing & Publishing". Oldham Council. 2004. Archived from the original on 7 September 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2007.
  39. ^ Sweney, Mark (8 December 2013). "Trinity Mirror builds on the success of UsVsTh3m with launch of Ampp3d". The Guardian.
  40. ^ "Ampp3d: News, facts and stats". Daily Mirror. Trinity Mirror.
  41. ^ Jackson, Jasper (13 May 2015). "Trinity Mirror's UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go". The Guardian.

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