Not to be confused with the Guardian Enterprise Group, an American media company (see .2 Network).

Guardian Media Group plc

Type	private
Founded	1907 as Manchester Guardian 1993 as Guardian Media Group plc
Founder(s)	C. P. Scott
Headquarters	Manchester, England
Area served	United Kingdom
Key people	Carolyn McCall, CEO
Industry	Media
Products	Newspapers, Radio Stations, Broadcasting, Websites
Owner(s)	Scott Trust
Divisions	Guardian News and Media GMG Regional Media GMG Radio Trader Media Group (51.1% Stake) GMG Property Services Group
Website	http://www.gmgplc.com/

Guardian Media Group plc (often referred to as 'GMG') is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd in 1907 when C. P. Scott bought the Manchester Guardian from the estate of his cousin Edward Taylor. It became the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd when it bought out the Manchester Evening News in 1924, later becoming the Guardian and Manchester Evening News Ltd to reflect the change in the morning paper's title. It adopted its current name in 1993. Its current chief executive is Carolyn McCall, formerly Chief Executive of Guardian News and Media Limited and a former non executive director of Tesco and chair of Opportunity Now.

GMG has various divisions and joint venture businesses: Guardian News & Media (the Guardian, the Observer, guardian.co.uk); GMG Regional Media (Manchester Evening News, other local newspapers in the North West and South of England, Manchester Online, Channel M); GMG Radio (regional radio stations under the Smooth, Real, and Rock Radio brands); Trader Media Group (the Auto Trader magazine and website), which it owns jointly with private equity firm Apax); GMG Property Services (estate agency software providers Vebra and Core, lettings software provider CFP Software, graphic design consultancy The Media Design House and consumer portal ThinkProperty.com); and Emap, the B2B events, data and publishing company, also jointly owned with Apax.

Guardian Media Group exists to support the core purpose of its owner, the Scott Trust: to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.^[1]

In March 2007 GMG sold 49.9% of Trader Media Group to Apax Partners, in a deal that valued Trader Media Group at £1.35 billion. In December 2007 it was announced that GMG and Apax had made a successful bid to buy Emap's business-to-business arm for around £1 billion.^[2]

Contents 1 Corporate governance 1.1 Board of directors 1.2 Executive committee 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Corporate governance

[edit] Board of directors

The Board of Directors are:

• Amelia Fawcett (chair)
• Carolyn McCall (CEO)
• Andrew Miller(CFO)
• Tim Brooks
• Mark Dodson
• Alan Rusbridger
• Brent Hoberman^[3]
• John Bartle
• Nick Backhouse
• Neil Berkett
• Judy Gibbons

[edit] Executive committee

GMG Executive Committee

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Company website
• Guardian website
• GMG Radio company website
• TMG website
• GMG Property Services website

v • d • e Guardian Media Group National newspapers: The Guardian · The Observer · International newspapers: The Guardian Weekly · Local Newspapers: Glossop Advertiser · Manchester Evening News · Manchester Metro News · Oldham Advertiser · Stockport Express · Tameside Advertiser · Reading Evening Post · Surrey Advertiser GMG Radio Real Radio: Real Radio (Yorkshire) · Real Radio (Scotland) · Real Radio (Wales) · Real Radio (North East) · Real Radio (North West) · Real Radio (Digital) (defunct) Smooth Network: 102.2 Smooth Radio · 100.4 Smooth Radio · 105.2 Smooth Radio · 105.7 Smooth Radio · 106.6 Smooth Radio · 97.5 Smooth Radio Rock Radio: 96.3 Rock Radio · Rock Radio (North East) · 106.1 Rock Radio Other stations: Jazz FM (licensed to Jazz FM Investments Ltd) Television: Channel M Online: guardian.co.uk · paidcontent.org Other: Trader Media Group  · EMAP (joint owner with Apax Partners)  · The Beaver