REACH PLC

Description

Founded in 1903, Reach Plc, formerly Trinity Mirror, is a national and regional news publisher in the UK. It produced and distributes contents across Ireland and UK, through paid-for and free newspapers and magazines and globally through various digital platforms and websites. The company operates nine national and over 110 regional news brands and over 80 online brands. It aims to provide engaging, reliable content which is distributed through newspapers, magazines and digital platforms. The company had expanded itself through the strategic acquisition of potential businesses such as Manchester Evening News, Local World and Express & Star and partnered with Brand Events and IBM (to launch Mantis), further it launched BelfastLive and InYour Area and invested in Pools.com and Irish Daily Star. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange as LON: RCH.

The company’s long-term objectives are to enhance customer engagement and loyalty to improve customer experience and relationship, creating unified view of the customer across Reach, innovates to grow & diversify its revenue base and invest in talented people & team. It operates through range of national and regional brands to connect with customers and have a long heritage of being award winning, reliable and trusted source of the new related to nation, sports, entertainment and information. The company has the network of 50,000 retailers across UK and Ireland.

The company’s influential and reliable national brands include Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Sunday People, Sunday Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Record, Sunday Express, Sunday Star and Sunday mail. Its regional brands include Manchester Evening News, Livepool Echo, Brimingham Mail and Bristol Post. Its leading celebrity and entertainment magazine’s portfolio includes OK! and NEW!. In Ireland the company operates through the portfolio of leading national and regional news brands such as Irish Daily Star, Northern Irish and Irish Editions of the Daily and Sunday Mirror newspapers, the Sunday People newspaper and RSVP magazine. The company is actively investing in the expansion of its digital presence; some of its digital services include the growing ‘Live’ network of regional sites and the hyperlocal app “InYourArea”.