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The restyled company is selling off the last of its consumer media interests
1996: MAI, an investment company that had diversified into media, including the ITV Anglia franchise, merges with United Newspapers, the owner of the Express titles, to form United News and Media. It announces an ambitious investment programme for Express Newspapers and also serves notice of its ambitions in television by taking control of HTV.
1998: United News and Media's chief executive, Clive Hollick (pictured), decides to sell off its securities and broking businesses and regional publishing interests, in order to concentrate on national consumer media.
2000: United sells its ITV interests to Granada. Having decided to focus on business and professional media, Hollick sells the Express titles to Richard Desmond (pictured). The company is renamed United Business Media.
2004: Having developed the company's new strategy of acquiring information suppliers in industrial sectors such as technology, healthcare, automotive and property, Hollick announces that he has ...