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Johnston Press

former multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland
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Johnston Press

Summary

Johnston Press is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Johnston Press is in the country of GB[3].
  • Johnston Press's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Johnston Press's headquarters location is recorded as Edinburgh[5].
  • Johnston Press's industry is recorded as newspaper industry[6].
  • 1767 marks the founding of Johnston Press[7].
  • Johnston Press's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Johnston Press[8].
  • Johnston Press's described at URL is recorded as http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/johnston-press-plc-history/[9].
  • Johnston Press's legal form is recorded as B6ES[10].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800JFIBCR4LGUA242[11]

  • Registered legal name: Johnston Press PLC[12]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[13]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[14]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): B6ES[15]

  • Entity status: INACTIVE[16]

  • LEI registration status: RETIRED[17]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-01-27[18]

  • LEI last updated: 2024-12-16[19]

  • LEI next renewal: 2019-01-27[20]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[21]

  • Registration authority: RA000587[22]

  • Authority entity ID: SC015382[23]

  • Conformity flag: NOT_APPLICABLE[24]

Body

Founding

1767 marks the founding of Johnston Press[7].

Operations

Johnston Press's headquarters location is recorded as Edinburgh[5].

Industry

Johnston Press's industry is recorded as newspaper industry[6].

Why It Matters

Johnston Press ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [11] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 11d ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → 46d24c53-7c60-4b1b-ad21-26d381b9fdd7
    Headquarters location → Edinburgh
    Inception → +1767-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Crunchbase organization id → johnston-press
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