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jaunte12/06/2011 5:32:51 pm PST

Is it this Cox family?

Cox Enterprises is a family-owned, U.S. media conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of the nations largest media companies and is also a provider of automotive services. According to Hoovers business website it “publishes 17 daily newspapers (including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and about 25 non-dailies (weeklies and shoppers) and owns 15 TV stations through Cox Television. It also owns Cox Communications (which was a public company until a Cox Enterprises buyout in late 2004), one of the US’s largest cable systems with more than 6 million subscribers. Other operations include 95% of Cox Radio, owner of about 80 radio stations in nearly 20 markets; Manheim, which sells 10 million vehicles through auctions worldwide; and a majority stake in autotrader.com.” [1]

Family member Anne Cox Chambers has a personal fortune of $12.6 billion and is listed in Forbes in position 24 for U.S. billionaires. [2]

In 2007, the company had 83,000 employees with revenues of US$15 billion.[3] Top competitors are Comcast, Gannett, and New York Times. [1]

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The company spent $4,160,000 for lobbying in 2007.