Johnston Group: landmarks

This chronology is indicative only.

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1767 Johnston printing house founded in Edinburgh

1846 buys Falkirk Herald

1978 buys Derbyshire Times

1988 IPO on London Stock Exchange

1994 buys Halifax Courier Holdings for £29.4m

1995 buys W&J Linney Ltd for £20m

1996 buys EMAP Newspapers for £211m

1996 buys Doncaster Newspapers from Newsquest for £15m

1996 sells Bury Times and other papers to Newsquest for £5.7m

1997 sells Cambridge Town Crier

1997 buys North Derbyshire Newspapers

1998 buys Herald Newspapers (Beds & Bucks) and Home Counties for £8m

1998 buys Arbroath Herald for £1m

1999 buys Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers for £266m

1999 buys Tweedale Press

2000 buys Glasgow East News

2000 buys Four Counties Newspapers from Southnews for £16.5m

2000 buys Lincoln Standard Group

2001 buys Horncastle News, Louth News, Skegness News, Market Rasen Mail

2002 buys Regional Independent Media, publisher of the Yorkshire Post, for £560m

2002 sells Galloway Gazette and Stornoway Gazette to Scottish Radio Holdings

2005 buys Scottish Radio Holdings' 35 weekly newspapers for £155m

2005 pays £93.9m for Leinster Leader group in Ireland

2005 Barclays sell The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday to Johnston for £160m