Archant is the UK's largest independently-owned regional
media business. It is a community media company active in
the fields of regional newspaper and magazine publishing,
contract printing and internet communications. All its titles
serve clearly defined communities, based around locations
or interest groups.
Archant can trace its roots back over 160 years and today
remains one of the country’s largest independent media
businesses. As a private company it employs 3000 people
right across England and Scotland. Its head office is in
Norwich and has an annual turnover of £194 million.
The newspapers division, Archant
Regional, produces four daily regional newspapers and
more than 85 weekly titles with a combined circulation of
three million copies every week. It is a UK top five regional
newspaper publisher. It also publishes many of the group’s
120 websites and a number of its magazines.
Archant also owns three magazine companies, which between
them produce around 75 magazines. 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.
The Archant Print division
has two main printing facilities at Norwich and Ipswich.
It prints the majority of the group’s newspaper titles
and offers a contract print service at both sites.
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