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Archant is a publishing company, based in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The group publishes four daily newspapers, around 50 weekly newspapers, and a number of consumer and contract magazines.
The Group employs around 2400 employees in East Anglia, the Home Counties, the West Country and Scotland.
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History
The company began in Norwich publishing in 1845 with the Norfolk News, backed by Jacob Henry Tillet, Jeremiah Colman, John Copeman and Thomas Jarrold. The Colman and Copeman families still retain close involvement in the business.
The Eastern Weekly Press was launched in 1867 and in 1870 was renamed the Eastern Daily Press. A sister title, the Eastern Evening News was launched in 1882. As the business grew it moved premises in 1902, 1959 and again in the late 1960s to its present headquarters location at Prospect House in the centre of Norwich.
At the end of the sixties Eastern Counties Newspapers began its corporate expansion with the coming together of ECN with the East Anglian Daily Times Company to form Eastern Counties Newspapers Group (ECNG).
ECNG developed further with the launch of Community Media Limited in 1981, a weeklies publishing operation based in Bath which launched and acquired titles in Scotland and the West Country.
In 1985 ECNG purchased the East Anglia-based Advertiser group of weekly free newspapers. These businesses operated as separate entities until the mid 1990s when they were brought together under the ECNG banner.
ECNG itself grew in 1993 when it bought four weekly newspapers in Huntingdon, Ely, Wisbech and March from Thomson. The acquisition of Peterhead-based P Scrogie followed shortly afterwards.
In April 1998 ECNG bought Home Counties Newspapers Holdings plc with an agreed bid of approximately £58m. HCNH published a range of 26 weekly paid and free titles across Greater London and the Home Counties. The title portfolio included the Hampstead & Highgate Express, the South Essex Recorder series, the Herts Advertiser series, the Comet series, the Herald group and the Welwyn & Hatfield Times.
Consumer magazine publisher Market Link Publishing, now Archant Specialist, based in Essex was acquired by ECNG for £5m in autumn 1999. Its titles now include Photography Monthly, Professional Photographer, Pilot and Sport Diver.
The launch of a county magazine in Norfolk in 2000 saw the beginning of what is now Archant Life, the country's biggest publisher of county magazines. The division was subsequently given scale through acquisitions in the North West, the Cotswolds and the South and South East of England.
In March 2002 ECNG changed its name to Archant.
Publications
Daily Newspapers
- East Anglian Daily Times
- Eastern Daily Press
- Norwich Evening News
- Ipswich Evening Star
Weekly Paid Newspapers
- Barking & Dagenham Post
- Beccles & Bungay Journal
- Buchan Observer
- Cambridgeshire Times
- Dereham & Fakenham Times
- Ellon Times & East Gordon Advertiser
- Ely Standard
- Exmouth Journal
- Fraserburgh Herald
- Great Yarmouth Mercury
- Green Un
- Hampstead & Highgate Express
- Highbury & Islington Express
- Ilford Recorder
- The Jumbo
- Lowestoft Journal
- Newham Recorder
- North Norfolk News
- Pink Un
- Romford Recorder
- Sidmouth Herald
- The Crow (Royston)
- Welwyn & Hatfield Times
- Weston & Somerset Mercury
- Wisbech Standard
Weekly Free Newspapers
- Diss Mercury
- Dunmow Broadcast & Recorder
- East Herts Herald
- Exmouth Herald
- Glasgow South & Eastwood Extra
- The Advertiser - Great Yarmouth edition
- Hamilton Extra
- Harlow, Old Harlow & Epping Herald
- Havering Herald
- Herts Advertiser Series
- Hunts Post
- The Advertiser - Ipswich edition
- Midweek Herald
- Motherwell Extra
- North Herts Comet Series
- The Advertiser - North Norfolk edition
- The Advertiser - South Norfolk edition
- North Devon Gazette & Advertiser
- The Advertiser - North Essex edition
- North Herts Herald
- North Somerset Times
- The Advertiser - Norwich edition
- Paisley, Renfrewshire Extra
- Property Extra
- Saffron Walden Reporter
- Stevenage Herald
- The Advertiser - Suffolk edition
- Ayrshire Leader Series
- Thetford & Watton Times
- The Advertiser - Waveney edition
- West End Extra
- West Suffolk Mercury Series
- Weston-super-Mare Admag
- Wymondham & Attleborough Mercury
Magazines
- Agricultural Trader
- Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel: Ambulance Assessment
- Association of Teachers & Lecturers:Report,Student Focus
- Berkshire Life
- BPI News
- British Alpaca Society: Alpaca
- British Deer Farmers Association: Deer Farming
- BTI Hogg Robinson: On Business
- Cambridgeshire Life
- Cheshire Life
- Cotswold Life
- Devon Life
- CLA: Country Landowner & Rural Business
- Country Smallholding
- EADT Suffolk Magazine
- EDP Norfolk
- Essex Life
- Farmers Union of Wales: Welsh Farmer
- France Magazine
- French Property News
- Grafik
- Hampshire Life
- Hertfordshire Business Life
- Hertfordshire Life
- Holidaymaker
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Agenda
- Kent Life
- Lancashire Life
- Live Well
- Living France
- Let's Talk! (Norfolk)
- Let's Talk! (Suffolk)
- National Federation of Young Farmers: Ten 26
- Océ Image
- Océ News
- Océ Today
- Panorama
- Photography Monthly
- Pilot
- Professional Photographer
- S & W Wales Trader
- Saab Automobile: Saab Magazine, Saab World,
- Saab Unlimited Bulletin, Saab Business World
- Sales Promotion
- Somerset Life
- Sport Diver
- Suffolk Business
- Surrey Life
- Sussex Life
- Swimming Pool News
- The British Association for Shooting & Conservation: The Custodian
- The British Association for Shooting & Conservation: Wildfowling
- The Game Conservancy Trust: Gamewise
- Total Digital Photography
- Which Camera?
- Which Camera? Digital
- Yorkshire Life
- Xplorer