Magazines. The Claverley Group, one of the lesser-known but consistently most successful medium-sized publishers of regional newspapers in the UK, has acquired a majority shareholding in Kennedy Enterprises, of Bristol, publisher of 25 children’s magazines and comics with annual copy sales of 3.5m. Claverley is the long-term family-owned publisher of the Express & Star and Shropshire Star in the English West Midlands and the Jersey Evening Post and Guernsey Press in the UK Channel Islands off France. It has revenues of some £75m.
UK news group buys children’s publisher
