The CN Group publishes award-winning newspapers including two daily evening newspapers, five paid-for weeklies, and a range of free newspapers, directories, niche publications and leaflets. It also has a thriving new media business, and each of the papers has their own website.

The Magazine Division of CN Group covers a broad spectrum of publications, from direct business-to-business publications to high quality lifestyle 'glossy' products.

The Group ranks twelfth in the regional league table of newspaper publishing houses in the UK.

Our Radio Division has 3 radio stations which operate in the North West and Northern Ireland. We offer high quality local programming and extensive local news coverage along with creative and affordable solutions for advertisers.

Our sales teams are experts in their field who offer comprehensive knowledge of local markets. Our radio presenters are local people who know and understand the regions in which they work and our news teams routinely take the lead on UK commercial radio coverage on high-profile national and international news stories whilst translating the issues involved for local communities.

We aim to become the website of choice throughout our communities. We want to have the best sites in the media industry and be well known for our design, quality and excellence.

We're well on our way!

Our websites are already packed with content and among the things you can do online are:

• find a car, a house or a new job
• buy pictures taken by our photographic teams
• get the latest news and sport as it happens, when it happens
• book a holiday with Readers Travel
• find an emergency plumber, electrician or tradesperson

But that is not enough and we plan to expand our use of video, continue to add interactivity and devise ideas to keep sites fresh and original. We've just invested in a major new software system and we're investigating internet TV and the opportunities that brings.

CN Research serves both the public and commercial sectors and is one of the fastest growing market research companies in the UK.

We provide public sector organisations with a range of market research services to help them successfully deliver their organisations' objectives in the most cost-effective way. We have specialist research staff with extensive experience in the public sector, which means we understand customer needs and can offer a range of services from tried and tested research solutions to new and innovative approaches.

For private sector companies, we deliver market intelligence and customer insights which enable companies to understand and meet the needs of their customers better than their competitors. We help companies identify gaps in the market and tell them how their customers perceive their brands. We also assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, evaluate customer satisfaction or pre-test advertising to ensure success.

Cumbrian Newsprint produces newspapers and directories, prospectuses, guides and specialist publications in formats ranging from broadsheets, tabloids, magloid and quarterfold and lots more. We print CN Group titles and also have a number of contract print customers from the north of Scotland to the south coast of England as well as Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Our designers, copywriters, planners and production teams work together with state-of-the-art press technology to deliver the most effective results around.