Archant

Archant is a publishing company, based in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The group publishes four daily newspapers, around 50 weekly newspapers, and a number of consumer and contract magazines.

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The Group employs around 2400 employees in East Anglia, the Home Counties, the West Country and Scotland.

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The company began in Norwich publishing in 1845 with the Norfolk News, backed by Jacob Henry Tillet, Jeremiah Colman, John Copeman and Thomas Jarrold. The Colman and Copeman families still retain close involvement in the business.

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The Eastern Weekly Press was launched in 1867 and in 1870 was renamed the Eastern Daily Press. A sister title, the Eastern Evening News was launched in 1882. As the business grew it moved premises in 1902, 1959 and again in the late 1960s to its present headquarters location at Prospect House in the centre of Norwich.

Norwich: Norwich (pronounced variously "Norritch" or "Norridge") is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk....

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