Daily Mail and General Trust - Divisions - Associated Newspapers

Associated Newspapers

Associated Newspapers is the national newspaper arm of DMGT and publishes the following titles

• Daily Mail – The main national newspaper owned by Associated. It sells more than two million copies per issue, giving it one of the largest circulations of any English language daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper in the world.
• The Mail on Sunday – The sister paper of the Daily Mail, published weekly on Sundays. First published in 1982.
• Ireland on Sunday – Associated Newspapers took over the publishing of Ireland on Sunday in 2001. The title was re-launched in April 2002 to coincide with the move to its new offices in Ballsbridge, Dublin. It included TV Week magazine and in September 2006 it was merged with the Mail on Sunday and became the Irish Mail on Sunday.
• Mail Today – A 48-page compact size newspaper launched in India on 16 November 2007 that is printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the Daily Mail and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the Daily Mail newsroom. Indian foreign media ownership laws restrict holdings to 26 percent.
• Metro – Metro is the UK’s only urban national newspaper. Launched in March 1999 as a free, stapled newspaper, it was distributed initially in London. But since has been published every weekday morning, around Yorkshire, the North West, Newcastle and the North East, the East Midlands, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff and Scotland. Metro’s readership is 2.2 million (NRS June ‘07), with over 1.3 million copies printed.

The London Evening Standard, in modern times the dominant paid-for London-area local newspaper, was owned by Associated until it was sold to Alexander Lebedev in January 2009. Since then it has been made free as of October 2009. Associated News still maintains a minority share. Associated Newspapers also owned Loot, a nationally-available classifieds newspaper, from 2001 until 2010, when it was sold to Printing Investments Ltd.

A team at Surrey Quays co-ordinates the daily printing requirement for newspapers at contract sites in Belfast, Bradford, Bristol, Didcot, Dundee, Glasgow, Newcastle, Plymouth, Southampton, Stoke, and Trafford Park, and abroad in Madrid, Orlando and Tenerife, and magazines with Quebecor and Polestar Group mainly at Corby and Watford.