DMGT celebrates 10 years of the Metro with pledge to up circulation

Posted: Wednesday, 9 September 2009 - 4:03pm Bookmark and Share

Speaking as Metro celebrated ten years in print, the first ever issue going out on 16 March 1999, DMGT’s Free Division managing director Steve Auckland said despite now being the fourth biggest circulated newspaper in the UK, expansion was still on the agenda.He said: "We will be coming out of this recession at some point and we want to come out of it quicker than everybody else. There are areas in the UK and Ireland that we can go into, but it is very important that we continue to reach young urbanites."That has always been our target audience and we haven’t diluted that audience. It is still as good now as it was when we started out."More ...