Company type | Private limited company[1] |
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Industry | Media |
Founded | 1904 in Dublin, Ireland |
Founder | William Martin Murphy |
Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
Key people | Marc Vangeel (CEO)[2] |
Products | Newspapers, magazines, distribution, printing and online media. |
Revenue | €191 million (2018)[3] |
Owner | Mediahuis[1] |
Number of employees | 825 (2018)[3] |
Website | www |
Mediahuis Ireland (formerly Independent News and Media, or INM)[4] is a Belgian/Dutch-owned media organisation that is based in Dublin and publishes national daily newspapers, Sunday newspapers, regional newspapers and operates multiple websites including Independent.ie. Mediahuis Ireland operates throughout Ireland. Its titles include the highest circulation daily and Sunday papers in Ireland.[5] Mediahuis Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mediahuis.[6]
The INM group of companies was dominated by Tony O'Reilly and his family between 1973 and 2012. Thereafter Denis O'Brien was the largest shareholder in Independent News & Media until April 2019.[7]
Denis O'Brien is the majority shareholder in INM. In theory, with 29% of the shares, he does not control it. In practice, he does.