Amalgamated Press
of The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, E.C.
Formerly Harmsworth Brothers, Ltd
1896 Incorporated as a Limited Company. Chairman: Lord Northcliffe
Publishers of Answers, London Magazine, and about fifty other periodicals, magazines and part publications.
1926 Purchased by the Berry brothers from Lord Northcliffe's executors under the nose of Lord Rothermere, his younger brother.
Amalgamated Press published over 70 magazines, a highly lucrative encyclopaedia and book section, and in south London owned three large printing works and paper mills.
1937 The partnership of the Berry brothers in Allied Newspapers was amicably dissolved. Each partner needed a distinct raft of holdings to pass on to his heirs; Lord Camrose assumed sole control of the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, and Amalgamated Press; Lord Kemsley became proprietor of the Sunday Times.
In the early 1960s, acquired by the Mirror Group Newspapers, along with the George Newnes Co and Odhams Press; the three companies were merged to form International Publishing Corporation (IPC).