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Sunrise Media Limited was created in 2016 to act as a holding company for The Sunday Business Post and the Cork publisher Webprint Concepts. [1] [2] [3] The major shareholder in Sunrise Media Limited is Key Capital. Key Capital's shareholders include Conor Kileen.[ citation needed ] As of 2016, the CEO of Sunrise Media Limited was Siobhan Lennon. [4]

Sunrise Media Limited was set up on 11 July 2016 as an Irish company with a registered address at Huguenot House, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. [5]

While Sunrise Media was reportedly included in a list of potential buyers of the Irish Examiner from Landmark Media Investments in 2017, [6] ultimately the Irish Examiner was acquired by The Irish Times . [7]

In September 2017, it was reported that The Sunday Business Post and Webprint Concepts might be sold, [1] and the former had been sold to Enda O'Coineen by September 2018. [8] Webprint, which had 25 full-time employees as of mid-2018, [9] was sold by Sunrise Media in March 2019. [10]

See also

Sunwise Media, for the American production company

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References

  1. 1 2 "'Sunday Business Post' put up for sale by Key Capital". irishtimes.com. 27 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Siobhán Lennon to head Sunrise Media". businesspost.ie. 18 December 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2023. Sunrise Media [is] the new holding company for The Sunday Business Post newspaper and Webprint, the Cork based printing operation
  3. ↑ "Siobhan Lennon Appointed CEO of the Sunday Business Post". adWorld.ie. 13 December 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Corcoran, Jody; White, Dan (18 December 2016). "Business Post price up as challenges increase". Independent.ie. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sunrise Media Limited". SoloCheck. 6 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Carey, Brian (28 May 2017). "Iconic looks at Landmark papers". The Sunday Times. Times Newspapers Limited. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Irish Times to wrap up Examiner deal". The Times (UK). 17 September 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Enda O'Coineen agrees deal to buy Sunday Business Post".
  9. ↑ "'Alive!' printer Datascope sold to Webprint". irishtimes.com. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Webprint bought back by founder O'Doherty". businesspost.ie. 10 March 2019. Sunrise Media sold Adenium Limited, trading as Webprint, to the company's managing director and founder, Donagh O'Doherty


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