Yattendon Group
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| Industry | New media |
|---|---|
| Founded | About 1877 |
| Founder | Henry Sturmey & William Isaac Iliffe |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | The Lord Iliffe Chairman Robert Peter Richard Iliffe Chief Executive |
| Website | www |
Yattendon Group plc (formerly Yattendon Investment Trust) is a British-based private company owned by the Iliffe family. It has interests in Vancouver, Seattle, agriculture, marinas and local newspaper printing and publishing.
Property[edit]
Yattendon owns marinas via its subsidiary MDL Marinas.
Yattendon also owns large areas of land in West Berkshire.[1]
Media[edit]
Yattendon previously owned Channel Television, and sold this to ITV plc in 2011.[2]
Iliffe Media[edit]
Iliffe Media[3] publishes 38 local newspapers, magazines, KMFM radio stations and associated online products.
In 2016 The Iliffe family launched a new weekly newspaper and associated media under the banner of the Cambridge Independent following the absorption of its former title, the Cambridge News, into the Trinity Mirror Group after failing to return the title following the Local World venture.[4] This publication quickly attained two newspaper awards, adopting a positive stance to news and strong local content printed on a higher grade paper and associated investment online.
Yattendon's printing press in Milton, Cambridgeshire, continues to produce full colour newspapers for a wide range of clients.
In January 2017, Yattendon bought 13 newspapers in Lincolnshire and East Anglia from Johnston Press. These include some very long established papers:[5]
- Bury Free Press
- Diss Express
- Fenland Citizen
- Grantham Journal
- Haverhill Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Lynn News
- Newmarket Journal
- Rutland Times
- Spalding Guardian
- Suffolk Free Press
- Stamford Mercury
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Newbury Today https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/10314/yattendon-estate-hits-back-at-ill-informed-housing-benefit-article.html
- ^ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/18/itv-plc-buys-channel-television
- ^ BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34660516
- ^ "Iliffe family takes on Trinity Mirror with launch of Cambridge weekly after bid to buy back titles was blocked". 20 September 2016.
- ^ Linford, Paul (2017). "Iliffe Media completes purchase of 13 weeklies from JP - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage". HoldtheFrontPage. Hold the Front Page. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
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