BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.2B
- Private
- UK
Dow Jones Description
Media Business with Interests in National, Regional & Local Newspapers, Magazines, Television & Radio
Group Chief Executive Officer
Carolyn McCallNumber of Employees 5,081
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Newspaper Publishers: 511110
Recent Events
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Guardian Media Group Plc - SWOT Analysis
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Guardian News & Media Cutting More Than 100 Jobs
Guardian News & Media, publisher of The Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk, will cut more than 100 of its 1,700 editorial and commercial jobs as the company moves to reverse “unsustainable” losses, it told staff in a series of briefings at the company’s Kings Place HQ in Wednesday. No timetable...
Guardian News & Media Confirms Observer's Survival
It will still be the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper for the forseeable future… Guardian News & Media has given a stay of execution to The Observer after a strategic review of its print titles recommended “closer integration” with The Guardian instead of a closure for the Sunday title. GNM...
More Cuts Coming, Guardian News & Media Boss Warns Staff
By Stephen Brook: The managing director of Guardian News & Media, Tim Brooks, has told staff that more cost savings at the publisher of The Guardian and Observer are on the way.Brooks told staff in a memo posted on the company intranet yesterday that the current rate of losses...
Guardian Media Group Will Be 'Smaller', Even After The Recovery
Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall says further upcoming restructure "inevitably mean we will be a smaller organisation", even after the gloom of the advertising downturn clears.In a staff memo (we are part of that staff, obviously, though we didn't get the memo directly) clarifying weekend reports about the...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Carolyn McCall | Group Chief Executive Officer |
| Ian Ashcroft | CEO, Reg Newspaper Division |
| John Myers | Chief Executive, Gmg Radio |
| Mark Rix | Managing Director, Media Sales |
| Tim Brooks | Managing Director |
| Carolyn Gray | Group Hr Director |
| Elaine Darbyshire | Director of Corporate Communications |
| John Bartle | Senior Independent Director |
| Nicholas Castro | Group Director, Finance |
| Simon Waldman | Group Director, Digital Strategy & Development |
| Alison Halstead | Head of Communications |
| Amelia Fawcett | |
| Brent Hoberman | |
| Chris Wade | Head of Communications |
| Diane Heath | Senior Press Officer |
| Giles Coode | |
| Julie Taylor | Head of Public Relations |
| Nicholas P. Backhouse | |
| Philip Boardman | Secretary |
| Sarah Jones | Press Officer |
| Alan Rusbridger | Editor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Liz Forgan | Chair |
| Andrew Graham | Board of Directors |
| Geraldine Proudler | Board of Directors |
| Giles Coode-Adams | Board of Directors |
| Jeremy Bullmore | Board of Directors |
| Jerry Fowden | Board of Directors |
| Jonathan Scott | Board of Directors |
| Larry Elliott | Board of Directors |
| Maleiha Malik | Board of Directors |
| Mark Dodson | Board of Directors |
| Phil Boardman | Board of Directors |
| Richard Eyre | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Group Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Opportunity Now | Chairman | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Lloyds TSB Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Business in the Community | Member | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Newspapers | CEO | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | CEO, Reg Newspaper Division | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Chief Executive, Gmg Radio | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Managing Director, Media Sales | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Managing Director | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| EMAP Plc | Managing Director | Former |
| Mediaweek | Editor | Former |
| IPC Media Limited | Board of Directors | Former |
Carolyn Gray is group HR director of the Guardian Media Group plc. She previously worked in human resources at Sainsbury's, Focus Wickes and Smiths Group plc. She is a member of the council of the Institute of Employment Studies, and sits on the executive of the Involvement and Participation Association. She joined the board in November 2007.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Group Hr Director | Current |
| Cymorth Cristnogol | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Director of Corporate Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Senior Independent Director | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cadbury Schweppes plc | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Group Director, Finance | Current |
| KPMG International | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Group Director, Digital Strategy & Development | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Editor | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Head of Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Current | |
| Lift Festival | Chair | Current |
| National Portrait Gallery | Chair | Current |
| The Young Foundation | Board of Directors | Current |
Brent Hoberman, independent Joined the Board in January 2007. Brent was previously co-founder and CEO of lastminute.com. He has worked for LineOne, Mars & Co, Spectrum Strategy Consultants and was a founder member of QXL, an online auction company. He is also a governor of University of the Arts, London.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| University of the Arts | Current | |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Head of Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Senior Press Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rathbone Brothers Plc | Current | |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Current | |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. | managing director | Former |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. | senior advisor | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Head of Public Relations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Current | |
| The Laurel Pub Company | CFO | Former |
| National Car Parks Limited | Group Finance Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Press Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Editor | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Chair | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Allaboutbranding.Com | Current | |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Advertising Association | Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cott Corporation | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Trader Media Group Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Trader Media Group Ltd. | CEO | Former |
| The Rank Group Plc | Senior Executive | Former |
| Rank Group Ltd. | Former | |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | Former | |
| The Rank Group Plc | Board Member | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| SBC Warburg | Director | Former |
| KPMG Corporate Finance LLC | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
Joined the Trust in 2007. She is University Lecturer at the School of Law, King's College London. A former member of independent human rights organisation the Governing Council of Liberty, Maleiha's main teaching, research interests and publications are in political and legal philosophy, feminist theory and discrimination law. From 2000 to 2005 she was a member of the Home Secretary's Steering Group on the implementation of the recommendations of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| School of Law | University Lecturer | Current |
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Steering Group, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
Age 45. Appointed to the Board in October 2005. Joined the Group in 1979. He became Advertisement Director of the Manchester Evening News in 1992, Deputy Managing Director in 1997 and was appointed Chief Executive of the Cheshire & Lancashire Division of GMG's Regional Newspapers in 1999. Since 2000, Mark has been a non-Executive Director of GMG Radio.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Media Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Fenner PLC | Group Financial Controller | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rdf Media | Non-Executive Chairman | Former |
| Mgt Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Capital Radio | Chief Executive | Former |
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