Yattendon Group plc
IndustryNew media
FoundedAbout 1877
FounderHenry Sturmey & William Isaac Iliffe
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Key people
The Lord Iliffe
Chairman
Robert Peter Richard Iliffe
Chief Executive
Websitewww.yattendongroup.co.uk

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. It is named after the village of Yattendon in Berkshire.

Property

Yattendon owns marinas via its subsidiary MDL Marinas. It also owns large areas of land in West Berkshire.[1]

Media

Yattendon previously owned Channel Television, and sold this to ITV plc in 2011.[2]

Iliffe Media

Iliffe Media publishes 38 local newspapers, magazines, KMFM radio stations and associated online products.[3]

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]

Yattendon's printing press in Milton, Cambridgeshire produces full colour newspapers for a wide range of clients.[5]

Acquisitions

In January 2017, Yattendon bought 13 newspapers in Lincolnshire and East Anglia from Johnston Press. These include some very long established titles:[6]

  • 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

References

  1. ↑ "Yattendon Estate hits back at "ill-informed" housing benefit article". Newbury Today. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "ITV plc buys Channel Television". The Guardian. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Trinity Mirror buys newspaper rival Local World". BBC News. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Iliffe family takes on Trinity Mirror with launch of Cambridge weekly after bid to buy back titles was blocked". 20 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Iliffe Print". Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  6. ↑ 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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