Mediagazer: Daily Mail owner DMGT sells its energy information business Genscape for $364M to reduce operations to five sectors from ten in 2016, says CEO (James Walker/Press Gazette)

4:50 PM ET, August 27, 2019

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James Walker / Press Gazette:

Daily Mail owner DMGT sells its energy information business Genscape for $364M to reduce operations to five sectors from ten in 2016, says CEO — The owner of the Mail titles has sold its energy information business Genscape for $364m (£297m) to US firm Verisk.

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