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The Daily Mail was first published by Alfred and Harold Harmsworth on May 4, 1896.
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The Group's global workforce grew by 1% in 2008 to 17,524 employees
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DMGT is a long established, successful media group. We have international business to business interests in business and financial information and in exhibitions. Our consumer media operations comprise UK national newspapers and related digital activities, local media and radio. Our purpose is to enrich lives through media brands that inspire, inform and entertain.
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The Group's objective is to be the owner of high quality sustainable media properties, reflected in premium commercial positions, thereby generating a premium return for shareholders. Over the past decade the strategy has been to extend the Group’s media activities so as to reduce its dependence on UK newspapers, which are heavily dependent on advertising, and, due to their strong market positions, much regulated.
The Group’s newspapers remain highly profitable and we are continuing to invest in them in order to maintain their market-leading positions. The stability of these businesses has underpinned the manner in which we have built a re-balanced group: by deployment of capital most successfully in DMG Information, recently in Euromoney through its acquisition of Metal Bulletin and in dmg world media and DMG Radio Australia.
DMGT was incorporated in 1922 but has origins dating back to the launch of the Daily Mail in 1896. As one of the longest-established media companies in the UK, DMGT has long invested in editorial excellence to become one of the most successful information providers in the country.