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Glacier Media Inc. is a Canadian publicly owned publisher of daily newspapers in British Columbia and weekly newspapers, trade magazines and business information products throughout Western Canada. It is headquartered in Vancouver. The company is also part-owner of four other newspaper publishers. == History == Though it is now exclusively focused on media and databases, Glacier was a distributor of bottled water for its first 10 years, from 1988 to 1997, under the name Cambridge Resources Ltd. The company's name changed to Glacier Ventures International Corp. in August 1997, and it exited the water business the next year. Glacier Media adopted its current name in 2008.〔 Throughout the early 2000s the company invested in several agricultural and business publications, and entered the general-interest newspaper business in early 2004 with the acquisition of Boundary Publishers Group, a chain of weekly newspapers in Saskatchewan, followed in the next 12 months by three more purchases (Pasquia Publishing, ''Weyburn Review'', Pennand Inc.) that made it the largest publisher of weeklies in the province. Glacier continued expanding its community newspaper holdings in 2005-6, gaining control of Madison Publishing Group, including ''Business in Vancouver'' and several suburban Vancouver weeklies, as well as several former properties of Hollinger Inc., including a 50% interest in the Great West chain of weeklies in Alberta, and full ownership of several weeklies in British Columbia, and Glacier's first daily newspapers, in British Columbia and in Quebec. Hollinger's assets also included several industry publications that expanded Glacier's trade information division, including the ''Western Producer'' and ''Daily Oil Bulletin''. In all, Glacier paid about $180 million for the former Hollinger assets. Late in 2006, Glacier entered into a partnership with David Radler, a former Hollinger executive, to sell the chain's lone Quebec holding, ''The Record'' of Sherbrooke. Glacier became a 50% (later 59%) shareholder in Radler's privately held company, Alta Newspaper Group. Subsequent months saw Glacier invest in two other companies with ties to Radler: Continental Newspapers Ltd., publisher of three dailies in British Columbia and Ontario, and RISN Operations, a chain of three dailies and several weeklies in Rhode Island, United States. By mid-2008, Glacier owned 27.6% and 50% shares (respectively) in these companies.〔 Continental is the successor to Horizon Operations Canada, a company owned by Radler; his daughter, Melanie, is president of RISN. Black Press, the largest publisher of weeklies in British Columbia, purchased 11 Glacier newspapers that competed with its own weeklies in mid-2010, including the ''Nelson Daily News'' and ''Prince Rupert Daily News'', both of which Black closed immediately. The sale also included the ''Trail Daily Times'' and several weeklies in the Kootenays region of British Columbia. Glacier also sold the ''Cranbrook Daily Townsman'' and ''Kimberley Daily Bulletin'' to an independent buyer, who sold them on to Black a year later. Glacier purchased its largest newspaper, the ''Times Colonist'' of Victoria, British Columbia, in an $86.5 million deal in 2011. The deal, which included two other daily newspapers and 20 weeklies formerly held by Postmedia Network, solidified Glacier as one of the leading newspaper publishers in British Columbia, although it did not include either of Postmedia's Vancouver dailies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glacier Media」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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