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28-583: It was established in 1896 as part of the Andover Advertiser . It became a separate publication in 1901. Photographs became a regular feature in the 1960s. Colour was introduced in the early 1990s. It was a broadsheet paper until 2007, when it became compact-sized. Until April 1991, the Romsey Advertiser was printed at the Hampshire Chronicle offices, 57 High Street Winchester. After that it

56-474: A "well known and established paper", also "hard edged, no nonsense" and popular for selling vehicles, a forerunner to more modern publications such as Loot . However, in 2009 and with its final ABC Circulation figures (December 2007) at 21,754 Exchange and Mart focused on becoming an online only business and ceased publishing the printed magazine. ExchangeandMart.co.uk was launched in 1996 and users could buy or sell vehicles and other items online. Today,

84-529: A 24-hour strike to protest against compulsory redundancies and cuts of up to £3 million. Newsquest's Glasgow NUJ members went on strike again on 25 July 2007, hampering the Sunday Herald' s planned re-launch. Successful union action had already led to the reinstatement on 31 July of the deputy Father (leader) of the Evening Times Chapel (office branch), Gordon Thomson, while a work-to-rule had caused

112-474: A dealer's own mobile and website, as well as additional sites of their choice to generate additional leads. ExchangeandMart.co.uk was relaunched in 2016, together with a new strategy to utilise the Newsquest audience of 200 regional newspapers and 170 regional newspaper websites which can reach 24.5 million visitors per month. Exchange and Mart powers a number of Newsquest owned titles such as s1cars.com and

140-557: A digital audience of 28 million unique users including the Scottish jobs website s1jobs.com . In March 2022, Newsquest acquired the Archant group of regional newspapers from RCapital . In July 2007, the UK's Competition Commission reported that it was investigating allegations made by SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire Pete Wishart that Newsquest had given it misleading evidence while it

168-516: A local news publishing business operating in Scotland, Berkshire and Northern Ireland, for an undisclosed sum. The Romanes newspaper portfolio comprises one daily, 19 weekly paid-fors and nine weekly frees, and associated websites, and the company employs 270 staff. On 28 April 2016, Newsquest announced that the latest comScore figures (Feb 2016) showed that users spend more time per month on Newsquest sites than any other regional press group. Newsquest has

196-432: A magazine in 2009 but continues online only. The Exchange and Mart magazine was published weekly from 1868 to 2009. During World War II, the magazine was slimmed down by paper rationing and by 1948 it was still suffering under rationing, with a circulation of 70,000. At its peak, it reached an audited circulation of over 350,000, making Exchange & Mart a household name. A 1998 study described Exchange and Mart as

224-742: A week in print. Based in London , Newsquest employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK. It also has a specialist arm that publishes both commercial and business-to-business (B2B) titles such as Insurance Times , The Strad and Boxing News . Newsquest was founded in 1995 when United States private equity partnership KKR financed a £210 million management buy-out of the Reed Regional Newspapers group of British papers from Reed Elsevier . In 1996 Newsquest swapped its Yorkshire titles for Johnston Press 's Bury, Greater Manchester area titles and £9.25 million, sold some of its titles in

252-696: The Richmond & Twickenham Times for a reported £8 million. In 2003, Gannett UK paid £216 million for the Scottish Media Group 's three newspapers – Glasgow 's Herald , Sunday Herald and Evening Times – 11 specialist consumer and business-to-business magazines and an online advertising and content business. The Competition Commission again inquired into this purchase, but later cleared it. In 2005, Newsquest's Exchange Enterprises division paid £50.25 million for Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange from United Advertising Publications after

280-591: The Salisbury Journal . Newsquest Newsquest Media Group Limited is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the American mass media holding company Gannett . It has 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print (165 newspaper brands and 40 magazine brands) and reaches 28 million visitors a month online and 6.5 million readers

308-670: The London Property Weekly titles, two titles in North West England , and three Review Group titles in Hertfordshire . In 1999, Gannett 's newly formed UK subsidiary paid £922 million (about US $ 1.5 billion) for Newsquest and took on the company's debt. In 2000, Gannett paid £525 million for Southampton -based News Communications and Media's South Coast dailies and weeklies – and its Southernprint magazine printing division – to add to Newsquest's portfolio. It also picked up

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336-473: The Warrington Guardian . In March 2015, Simon Davis of Carwow wrote an article on selling cars in which he wrote " Exchange and Mart is the final Auto Trader alternative on this list. Unlike the other options we have included, you will have to pay to feature your ad on Exchange and Mart . However, with prices starting at £5, this is a small price to pay when you consider the fact that the website has

364-690: The Competition Commission, and believes that this is to the detriment of the long term future of the titles and the Scottish newspaper industry.' In 2019 it was reported that New Media Investment Group Inc., the parent company of GateHouse Media , was buying Gannett , the owners of Newsquest. Exchange %26 Mart Exchange and Mart is an online classified advertising website, owned by Newsquest Media Group . Exchange and Mart specialises in new and used motor vehicles, including commercial vehicles, motorcycles, caravans and motorhomes and caters for private sellers, as well as motor retailers. It

392-794: The English Midlands to Midland Independent Newspapers and bought the Westminster Press local newspapers group for £305 million from Pearson , owner of Penguin Books and the Financial Times , resulting in Newsquest doubling in size. The next year it floated on the London Stock Exchange , realising a market capitalisation of £500 million. In 1998, Newsquest added the Sussex based Contact-a-Car ,

420-523: The US press release said: 'Newsquest experienced higher national advertising revenue'. It was "hardly a picture of a company suffering from poor health", commented Greenslade. In August 2007 Newsquest started offering users of its Greater London titles' websites downloadable supermarket coupons which could be redeemed for a range of goods at major supermarket chains, with plans to roll out the scheme to its other publications. In March 2012, The Guardian reported

448-604: The cancellation of digital training planned for the following week. "Newsquest's purchase of the Herald group was backed by assurances that they would maintain standards and not cut editorial budgets," the NUJ quoted Cathy Peattie Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Falkirk East as saying. "The Competition Commission may have decided that too much time has passed for it to be able to do anything, but that doesn't change

476-413: The fact that Newsquest gave assurances via the commission to the people of Scotland, and those assurances now look worthless," she added. She was not surprised staff had walked out. "They have a long list of causes for dissatisfaction – redundancies, staffing shortages, poor working conditions and high stress levels. This is damaging the health of the workers and the health of the paper. Rather than discuss

504-555: The media giant was carrying out a company review with the Credit Suisse investment bank, and could sell Newsquest for up to £1.5 billion. Gannett had replied by saying: "There is no truth in the report. Newsquest is a valuable part of the Gannett company." On 2 July 2007, in his blog on The Guardian ' s website, media analyst Roy Greenslade revealed the content of a Newsquest company memo which acknowledged that its staff pension scheme

532-479: The problems, Newsquest has derecognised the NUJ," Peattie continued. Peattie had tabled a motion in the Scottish Parliament expressing concerns about the Herald newspapers. It said Newsquest's programme of job cuts would harm the papers' content and put their staffs at risk and added: 'The Parliament notes that these developments are taking place despite increased profits and assurances given by Newsquest to

560-533: The regional newspapers business – outside Manchester – of the Guardian Media Group , a takeover that the Competition Commission cleared as there was "no overlap, in the companies' circulation areas". In 2001, Newsquest bought Surrey and Sussex Publishing and Horley Publishing, publishers of Gatwick Life and Horley Life and the Dimbleby Newspaper Group's nine Greater London weeklies, including

588-596: The results of an indicative ballot held by the National Union of Journalists among its members at Newsquest, which found that more than 80% were prepared to strike if they were not given a pay rise within the year. In April 2014, following CEO/Chairman Paul Davidson's retirement, Henry Faure Walker was appointed CEO at Newsquest. In November 2014, publication began of The National , a Scottish daily newspaper that supports Scottish independence. On 26 May 2015, Newsquest announced that it had acquired Romanes Media Group,

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616-416: The site focuses on new and used motor vehicles. Users can search for vehicles using a wide range of filters, including price, model, postcode, age and mileage. The website also includes buying advice. From 2012 Exchange and Mart builds and hosts web and mobile sites for independent motor dealers, helping them reach a wider, online audience. The Exchange and Mart portal allows motor stock to be broadcast to

644-474: The small ads weeklies' publisher's parent, United Business Media, decided to concentrate on its 'core activities'. Newsquest also owned the formerly-named Brentford, Chiswick and Isleworth Times , later known as the Hounslow and Brentford Times , which closed in 2010. On 11 December 2006, Gannett denied having plans to sell Newsquest, contradicting a story in the previous day's Sunday Express that claimed

672-451: The world to specialise in classified advertising. In 1926 Exchange and Mart was taken over by Bazaar Exchange & Mart Ltd. By 1999 Exchange and Mart was owned by CMP Media , which was acquired by United News & Media (later UBM) for $ 920 million. In 2005, Newsquest's Exchange Enterprises division acquired Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange from United Advertising Publications '. Exchange and Mart ceased publishing as

700-457: Was a printed publication from 1868 until 2009. Exchange and Mart was founded by news entrepreneur William Cox . In 1862 he had bought Queen , a magazine for women which had popular 'Exchange and Mart' columns allowing readers to buy and sell products. In May 1868 a weekly paper, Exchange & Mart , was founded by Cox in a converted potato warehouse in Covent Garden. It was the first in

728-691: Was considering whether the Liberal Democrat supporting company should be permitted to take over titles from SMG. Wishart had written to the commission in June 2007 to express his concern about standards and job losses at the newspapers. Union members were holding a ballot over whether they should strike over five redundancies on the Glasgow Evening News , one of the papers bought from SMG. On 20 July 2007, journalists at Newsquest's former-SMG titles – Glasgow Herald , Sunday Herald and Evening Times – held

756-547: Was printed at Portsmouth Printing and Publishing Ltd. It is now printed at Newsquest's Print Centre, in Test Lane, Redbridge, Southampton. The Romsey Advertiser is owned by Newsquest , which is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the UK, and is itself part of the US group Gannett . Sister newspapers in the area include the Hampshire Chronicle , Andover Advertiser , Southern Daily Echo and

784-422: Was £65 million in deficit. Members of the company's workforce were given the options of increasing their contributions (from 6% to 10%) to keep the same final salary scheme, paying in less for an inferior version, opting for a 'money purchase' scheme; or ditching their pension altogether. The company's U.S. parent Gannett had on 18 June reported that revenues from its newspapers and broadcasting had fallen – but,

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