Who owns the daily mail group
The Daily Mail Group is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), a British media conglomerate. DMGT is a publicly traded company listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the ticker symbol DMGT.
The company was founded in 1901 by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and is still controlled by the Harmsworth family. The company's largest shareholder is the Daily Mail and General Trust Employee Benefit Trust, which holds around 14% of the company's shares. The next largest shareholders are institutional investors such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors.
DMGT's portfolio of newspapers and magazines includes:
- The Daily Mail
- The Mail on Sunday
- Metro
- i
- The Daily Telegraph
- The Sunday Telegraph
- The Spectator
- Country Life
- You
In addition to its newspaper and magazine portfolio, DMGT also owns a number of other businesses, including:
- Euromoney Institutional Investor, a financial publishing company
- Informa, a business intelligence and events company
- Ascential, a marketing and events company
- dmg::media, a digital media company
DMGT is headquartered in London and employs around 10,000 people across its various businesses.