What is Archant's core business?
Archant is a community media company active in the fields of regional newspapers, magazines and websites, specialist and customer publishing, contract printing event management, digital publishing and related activities. All its publications serve clearly defined communities, often based around locations or interest groups
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How is the company organised?
There is a small head office team of 20, based in Norwich.
The business is split into five main divisions, Archant Anglia, Archant London, Archant Lifestyle, Archant Business Development and Archant
Print, operating out of around 40 offices all over England. |
What areas does Archant
operate in?
We have a concentration of our business in East Anglia, the
Home Counties and London, with sizeable divisions in the north,
south, south east and south west of England. We also produce
a number of national and international titles. |
How many publications
do you produce?
Archant produces four daily regional newspapers and around 50 weekly newspaper titles. It also produces around 80 monthly
magazines and publishes around 200 websites. |
What sort of magazines
do you publish?
Archant Specialist
is the consumer magazine publishing division. Archant
Life produces a growing number of city and county lifestyle
magazine titles and several French magazines. Archant
Dialogue is the contract and customer publishing arm of
the group. |
How big is Archant?
Archant is one of the UK’s largest private media businesses with
an annual turnover of around £142m.
Archant produces four daily regional newspapers and around 50 weekly titles with a combined circulation of 1.7 million copies every week. It is a UK top seven regional newspaper publisher. |
Do you print your own titles?
The majority of our newspapers are printed by Archant
Print at our main printing facilities in Norwich.
Magazines are printed by outside printers. |
When did the company
start?
Archant can trace its roots back over 165 years to 1845 when Jacob Henry Tillett,
Jeremiah Colman, John Copeman and Thomas Jarrold started the Norwich-based
Norfolk News. The Colman and Copeman families still retain close involvement
in the business.
Archant has been a family-owned business since the beginning and today
it is a growing media business and the leading family-owned independent
regional newspaper group in the UK. |
How many people does
the company employ?
Around 1900 |
Where can I see your
financial results?
All our latest financial results are on this site on the financial
pages. |
How can I keep up with
Archant’s latest news?
Visit the latest news page. You can also
sign up for a free news
alert service. |
I want to advertise in
one of your titles?
Find the title in our list of publications and
follow the link through to its own website or use the contact information
on this site. |
I want to advertise across
a number of your different titles?
We have national sales offices for our newspaper and magazines titles on
the national sales page. |
How can I find out about
job opportunities at Archant?
We publish a list of latest job opportunities every
week on this website, usually on a Friday. |
Can you help me find
my way to one of your offices
Yes, visit the contact us page for maps of all
our office locations. |
Have you a general enquiries
number?
If you cannot easily find the information or contact details
you need on this site then ring 01603 772772 or e-mail corporate-enquiries@archant.co.uk |
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How can I get more information about your sector?
Newspaper Society – website address: www.newspapersoc.org.uk
Can I send my press release to all your publications
at once?
All of our newspapers, and many of our magazine titles,
are regionally or locally based. They are interested primarily
in stories which have a very specific local angle. A general
press release with no local angle is not really of interest
to them. This is why we do not publish a complete list of
editors' contacts on this website. You can find relevant
contact details through our titles' own websites which are
listed and linked on the Publications
pages.
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Do you have a policy on your use of energy?
Yes, please click here to view the policy.
In May 2011 Archant was awarded the coveted BS EN 16001, which proves our commitment to energy reduction. We are the first media organisation approved by the Centre For Assessment Ltd for this standard. |