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Gazette Group expanding to eight titles

From the Gazette Group's website:

"Our Dun Laoghaire Gazette was launched in December 2007, and GGN will be unveiling three additional new Gazette titles in suburban Dublin over the next four months, which means that there will be eight Gazette titles serving the fastest-growing communities in Ireland."

Dundrum Gazette to launch

The Gazette Group Newspapers, partly owned by the Irish Times, is to launch the Dundrum Gazette next week.

The new newspaper is being advertised as a 'new quality newspaper' for the D14 and D16 areas of the Dublin.

With a €1.50 cover price, the weekly Dundrum Gazette will be the third localized Dublin newspaper in the Gazette stable. It follows the launch of the Clondalkin Gazette in 2005, with the first papers the Lucan Gazette and the Blanchardstown Gazette first published the year before.  

The Irish Times Ltd recently bought 43.8 percent of the Gazette Group for around €2.5 million. According the Irish Times (paid sub required), the terms allow the them to increase their investment to 53 percent in three years, 75 percent in five years, and the remained after that.

Irish Times buys Gazette newspapers

The Sunday Tribune is reporting that the Irish Times has bought a majority shareholding in the Gazette Group Newspapers, owners of the weekly Dublin newspapers the Lucan Gazette, Blanchardstown Gazette, and Clondalkin Gazette.

According to the group, at €1.50 per copy the newspapers have a combined total of around 12,000 sales per week and a combined readership of 75,000. The company was set up in 2003 by Liam Hayes, former editor of Ireland on Sunday, and Michael McGovern, formerly of Saatchi and Saatchi advertising.