Daily Mail and General Trust

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DMGT is a privately held, diversified media and information portfolio company headquartered in Jersey (under Rothermere Continuation Holdings Limited) and operationally based in London, with offices in New York, Reading, and Dubai. Founded on the launch of the Daily Mail in 1896, the group originally operated as a publicly listed UK company (Daily Mail and General Trust plc) before transitioning to private ownership under the control of Lord Rothermere, and in late 2025 moved assets worth hundreds of millions of pounds offshore to a new Jersey-domiciled parent ahead of the UK November 2025 Budget. The group organizes its operations across B2B and Consumer verticals: Consumer Media includes dmg media and Harmsworth Media publishing The Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, and New Scientist in print and digital formats; Property Information encompasses Landmark, Yopa, and Trepp providing technology, data, and workflow solutions to commercial and residential property markets plus risk and valuation services for the CMBS market; Events and Exhibitions (dmg events) produces large-scale B2B conferences and exhibitions across energy, construction, interiors, and hospitality sectors; and dmg ventures invests in early-stage technology businesses alongside selective external fund commitments (e.g., USD50m into Renown Capital in February 2026).

The group generates revenue primarily through advertising and subscription across its consumer titles, recurring subscription and licensing revenue from B2B data platforms (Trepp, Landmark), transaction-based exhibitor and attendee fees in the events business, and minority returns from venture investments. Distribution combines print newsstand/free newspaper logistics (Metro), digital properties including MailOnline, direct enterprise sales for property data and analytics, and physical exhibition venues globally. The portfolio also includes adjacencies in catastrophe risk modeling (RMS), energy and commodity market monitoring (Genscape), education (Hobsons), property due diligence (EDR), and building data (BuildFax).

DMGT explicitly states group revenues of approximately £1 billion across these operations and describes itself as taking a "long-term approach to investment" with market-leading positions in consumer media, property information, events and exhibitions, and venture capital. The company's strategic posture in late 2025/early 2026 was markedly active on the M&A front — it agreed in November 2025 to acquire Telegraph Media Group from RedBird IMI for £500 million to consolidate its UK national newspaper position, but the deal was referred by the UK Culture Secretary to the Competition and Markets Authority and Ofcom on media plurality grounds (giving DMGT control of 46.68% of right-leaning national daily print) and ultimately collapsed in March 2026 when Axel Springer outbid with a £575 million offer. The group is led by CEO Tim Collier, who signed the Modern Slavery Act transparency statement on 4 December 2025.

Name

Daily Mail and General Trust

Legal name

Rothermere Continuation Holdings Limited

Website

http://www.dmgt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1922

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

DMGT is a privately held, UK-rooted portfolio company operating across consumer media (Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, New Scientist), B2B property information data platforms (Trepp, Landmark, Yopa), B2B events and exhibitions (dmg events), and venture capital (dmg ventures), generating approximately £1 billion in annual revenue under the control of Lord Rothermere.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consumer Media: International publisher with print and digital portfolio generating advertising and subscription revenue from titles including The Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper and New Scientist.
2. Property Information: Landmark, Yopa and Trepp provide technology, data and workflow solutions to property markets and CMBS risk services.
3. Events and Exhibitions: B2B exhibitions and conferences focusing on energy, construction, interiors, and hotel and hospitality sectors.
4. DMG Ventures: Venture capital investments in early-stage businesses.

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DMGT is a diversified portfolio company that manages businesses providing information, analysis, insight, events, news and entertainment to both businesses and consumers. Its portfolio spans consumer media publishing (The Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, New Scientist), property information services (Landmark, Yopa, Trepp for commercial and residential property markets and CMBS risk/valuation), B2B exhibitions and conferences (dmg events across energy, construction, interiors, and hospitality), and venture capital investments in early-stage businesses (dmg ventures).

Product overview

DMGT operates a diversified portfolio of businesses organized across Consumer Media and B2B segments. The Consumer Media division (dmg media and Harmsworth Media) publishes print and digital titles including The Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, and New Scientist, reaching large audiences in the UK and internationally. The B2B operations span Property Information (Landmark, Yopa, Trepp providing data and analytics for commercial and residential property markets) and Events & Exhibitions (dmg events organizing B2B conferences across energy, construction, and hospitality sectors). The group also includes dmg ventures for venture capital investments in early-stage technology businesses. DMGT generates revenues of approximately £1 billion from these combined operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Trepp: Leading provider of data, insights, and technology solutions to the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking markets
• Landmark
• Yopa
• dmg media
• dmg events
• dmg ventures
• Harmsworth Media
• Mail Force Charity

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• News Corp: Diversified media conglomerate operating print newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian), digital real estate (REA Group, Move), subscription video (Foxtel), and book publishing (HarperCollins). Directly comparable to DMGT's combination of UK print media, property information, and B2B information assets.
• Reach plc: UK's largest newspaper publisher, operating the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star, Sunday titles, and a large digital network. Directly comparable to DMGT's UK consumer media business (Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper) as both face the same secular print headwinds and digital transition dynamics.
• Axel Springer: German-based media and digital classifieds company (Bild, Welt, Politico, Business Insider). Acquired Telegraph Media Group for £575m in 2026, superseding DMGT's bid. Directly comparable as a competing diversified European media owner with overlapping M&A ambitions in UK newspaper assets.

Broad incumbents

• Informa plc: UK-listed international B2B events, digital services, and academic publishing group. Closest large-cap comparable to dmg events' B2B exhibitions business, with overlapping vertical focus in hospitality, construction, and energy events. Also provides scale benchmarks for DMGT's B2B information segment.
• RELX plc: UK-listed information and analytics conglomerate (Elsevier, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Reed Exhibitions, LexisNexis Legal). Directly comparable to DMGT's property information and B2B events portfolio given its emphasis on subscription-based data analytics plus a major exhibitions arm.
• S&P Global: U.S.-listed provider of credit ratings, indices, and market intelligence (including CMBS and structured finance data). Most direct large-cap comparable to Trepp's structured finance/CRE data franchise and an indicator of valuation multiples achievable in DMGT's property information segment.
• MSCI Inc. U.S.-listed provider of indices, portfolio analytics, and real estate data and analytics (including IPD). Comparable to Trepp's commercial real estate data franchise and provides a high-quality valuation benchmark for DMGT's property information growth trajectory.

Peers

• Pearson plc: UK-listed education and assessment company with legacy publishing roots. Comparable to DMGT through its ownership of Hobsons (education) and New Scientist, though Pearson is now concentrated in education while DMGT is diversified across media and B2B data.

Emerging players

• Verisk Analytics: U.S.-listed data analytics provider to insurance, energy, and financial services markets. Comparable to DMGT's RMS (catastrophe risk modeling) and Trepp data-analytics businesses, particularly the insurance and structured-finance analytics overlap.
• Euromoney Institutional Investor: B2B financial information and events business serving banking, investment, and treasury professionals. Comparable to DMGT's events and B2B information segments, particularly the asset-pricing and structured-finance overlap with Trepp.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/daily-mail-and-general-trust-plc
• Xx.com/DMGTplc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A9 records

Investments7 records

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