NEWSQUEST MEDIA GROUP LIMITED

1. NEWSQUEST MEDIA GROUP LIMITED 1996-01-29 → present
2. REED REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS LIMITED 1988-01-11 → 1996-01-29
3. MEGA NEWSPAPERS LIMITED 1983-02-02 → 1988-01-11
4. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST SHELF TRADING COMPANY LIMITED 1982-11-09 → 1983-02-02

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Directors have made an assessment in preparing these financial statements as to whether the company and its subsidiaries (the "group") are a going concern. The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The group meets its funding requirements through existing cash balances and cash generated from operations. The company's diverse revenue streams, from print and digital advertising to circulation along with wide geographical dispersion provide a degree of resilience. The business has demonstrated a long track record of ability in adjusting its business model and cost base to maintain positive cash generation in the event of lower revenues. The Directors regularly assess cash flow forecasts, including stress testing, which cover a period of more than twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. These forecasts indicated the company has adequate cash resources to maintain the group as a going concern without factoring in any benefit from asset disposals. At the time of signing these financial statements the group has access to £12m of unrestricted liquid resources.”

Group structure

1. NEWSQUEST MEDIA GROUP LIMITED · parent
   1. Newsquest Community Media Limited · Publishing
   2. Newsquest Printing (Glasgow) Limited · Scotland
   3. Newsquest Specialist Media Limited
   4. Newsquest (Essex) Limited
   5. Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited · Scotland
   6. Newsquest (Herts and Bucks) Limited
   7. Newsquest (London & Essex) Limited
   8. Newsquest Pension Trustee Limited
   9. Sopress Investments Limited
   10. Newsquest Media (Southern) Limited
   11. LOCALIQ Limited
   12. TRL 2019 Limited
   13. William Trimble Limited · Northern Ireland
   14. WP Publishing
   15. Newsquest (Clyde & Forth Press) Limited

Significant events

• “On 1 January 2024 the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Newsquest (Clyde & Forth Press) Limited ('CFP') transferred its business, trade, assets and liabilities to Newsquest Media Group Limited.”
• “During the year three surplus properties were sold for sale proceeds of £1,920,000, resulting in a profit on disposal of £758,000.”
• “In the autumn of 2024 the News Media Association ('NMA'), formerly the Newspaper Society, completed a pension buy-in to transfer the obligations of the NMA to pay the pensions of the Newspaper Society and Life Assurance Scheme ('NSPLAS') to an insurer.”
• “In 2024 the company invested £3m in the company's internal use software used across all of the company's websites and £1.1m in property, plant and equipment for the business.”
• “On 9 January 2025, 13 March 2025, 4 June 2025 and 4 August 2025, Newsquest Media Group Limited, paid dividends of £5,000,000, £5,772,141, £5,826,820 and £5,000,000 respectively, to the company's ultimate parent company, Gannett Co., Inc.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.5%

  £148,117,000 → £150,275,000

• Cash

  -1.3%

  £14,378,000 → £14,192,000

• Net assets

  +13.4%

  £125,206,000 → £142,018,000

• Employees

  +3.3%

  1,509 → 1,559

• Operating profit

  +1.9%

  £23,626,000 → £24,084,000

• Profit before tax

  +3%

  £33,992,000 → £35,026,000

• Wages

  +5.2%

  £61,079,000 → £64,231,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers