Media Wales (Cardiff)

 office building, publishing house

Media Wales Ltd. is a publishing company based in Cardiff in Wales. As of 2009 it was owned by the Trinity Mirror Group. It was previously known as the Western Mail & Echo Ltd.

The Western Mail was founded in 1869 by the 3rd Marquess of Bute as a Conservative newspaper. In 1893, the original building in St. Mary Street was destroyed by fire and a new building was opened also in St Mary Street two years later.In 1928 the Western Mail Ltd amalgamated with David Duncan & Sons, who published the South Wales Daily News and the South Wales Echo, which was established in 1884. The merged company became Western Mail and Echo Ltd. and because of the merger Evening Express and South Wales Daily News closed. In 1960, the newspapers left St Mary Street and moved to Thomson House, Cardiff.

On 1 October 2007 Western Mail and Echo Ltd changed its name to Media Wales and the following year moved their offices just down the street from Thompson House to #6 Park Street.

Titles published by the company include:

Western Mail, Wales on Sunday, South Wales Echo and Echo Extra, Celtic Weekly Newspapers, Cynon Valley Leader, Glamorgan Gazette, Gwent Gazette, Merthyr Express, Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer, Rhondda Leader, Rhymney Valley Express, HomesWales, JobsWales & Motors Wales.

www.walesonline.co.uk/
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