Archant: landmarks
Landmarks
This chronology is indicative only.
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It covers -
- antecedents
- ECNG (1969)
- Archant (2002)
Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline on this site.
Antecedents
1845 Jacob Henry Tillett, Jeremiah Colman, John Copeman and Thomas Jarrold launch Norwich-based Norfolk News
1867 Eastern Weekly Press launched in 1867
1870 Eastern Weekly Press renamed Eastern Daily Press
1882 Eastern Evening News launched
ECNG
1969 Eastern Counties Newspapers merges with East Anglian Daily Times Company to form Eastern Counties Newspapers Group (ECNG)
1981 ECNG launches Community Media Ltd (CML), a weeklies publishing operation based in Bath
1985 ECNG buys East Anglia-based Advertiser group of weekly free newspapers
1993 buys four weekly newspapers in Huntingdon, Ely, Wisbech and March from Thomson
1993 buys P Scrogie
1996 launchess internet publications and website design services
1998 buys Home Counties Newspapers Holdings (HCNH) for £58m - 26 weekly paid and free titles across Greater London and Home Counties
1999 buys consumer magazine publisher Market Link Publishing for £5m
2000 launch of Norfolk Life county magazine as basis of Archant Life, followed by acquisitions in North West, Cotswolds, South and South East of England
2000 buys France magazine
2000 buys Pilot magazine
2000 buys Somerset Magazine
2001 buys Cotswold Life magazine and Loyalty & Conquest Communications
2001 buys Oyston Publications plc, inc Yorkshire Life, Lancashire Life, Cheshire Life, Leeds Life and Manchester Life magazines
Archant
2002 ECNG changes name to Archant
2002 buys Living France magazine
2002 takes 20% stake in Dublin Daily (closes 2003)
2002 launches Cambridgeshire Life
2002 launches Total Digital Photography magazine
2003 buys INM's Greater London local papers for £62m
2003 launches London free weekly The News
2005 pays £6.1m for local magazine division of Highbury House