Sun Media Corporation Buys Several Papers

Posted on August 13, 1998

Sun Media Corporation, through its subsidiary Bowes Publishers Limited, announced the purchase of The Northern Times in Kapuskasing, The Timmins Times and Norweb in Timmins, Ontario. The 37 year old Northern Times is an award winning weekly broadsheet newspaper with a paid circulation of 5,000. The Timmins Times, a twice-weekly tabloid, has a controlled circulation of 19,000. Norweb, a six-unit press operation, prints The Northern Times and The Timmins Times, as well as numerous independently owned weekly newspapers in northern Ontario.

W.R. Dempsey, President and CEO of Bowes Publishers Limited said, ``We are pleased to add these operations to our family of weekly newspapers and press operations. It always gives Bowes Publishers a sense of pride when independent owners approach us on an exclusive basis to purchase their operations.''

Bowes Publishers Limited also announces the completion of the sale of their 66% interest in Whistler Printing and Publishing to Lower Mainland Publishing of Vancouver, B.C. which brings Lower Mainland's interest to 100%. Whistler Printing and Publishing is made up of three weekly newspapers; the Whistler Question, the Squamish Chief and the Lillooet Bridge-River News. Bowes Publishers Limited acquired their interest in Whistler Printing and Publishing when the company acquired WestMount Press in April 1998.