4. Founded in 1986 in Somerset by Chris Anderson. He sold it in 1994 for
£52.7 million and bought it back 3 years later with Greg Ingham and
partners for £142 million.
5. In 2006 it was ranked the sixth largest media corporation with in the United
Kingdom. Publishing more than 30 magazines in a range of genres.
However it began to make losses as a business and in 2009 it made a 61%
drop in profits from £9.5 million top £3.7 million.
6. In the past five years its
share price has gone
from a high of 30.00
down to a low last
month (November
2014) of 7.125