Editing Archant (section)

===1900 to 2000===
As the business grew it moved premises in 1902, 1959 and again in the late 1960s to its present headquarters location at Prospect House in the centre of Norwich.

At the end of the 1960s, Eastern Counties Newspapers merged with the East Anglian Daily Times Company, publisher of the ''[[East Anglian Daily Times]]'', to form Eastern Counties Newspapers Group (ECNG).

ECNG developed further with the launch of Community Media Limited in 1981, a weeklies publishing operation based in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], which launched and acquired titles in [[Scotland]] and the West Country.

In 1985, ECNG purchased the East Anglia-based ''Advertiser'' group of weekly free newspapers. These businesses operated as separate entities until the mid-1990s when they were brought together under the ECNG banner.

ECNG acquired four weekly newspapers in [[Huntingdon]], [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]], [[Wisbech]] and [[March, Cambridgeshire|March]] from Thomson in 1993. The acquisition of Peterhead-based P Scrogie followed shortly afterwards.

In 1995 the company opened a new 25m Print Center in Thorpe, Norwich, with Goss HT70 Presses and Muller-Martini Mailroom Equipment, Replacing the Goss Metro Presses at Prospect House.

The company moved into Internet publishing in 1996 when it launched '''Eastern Counties Network''', a Web-based service using copy from its four daily newspapers as well as original material. Later this was disaggregated into separate websites for each of the newspapers.

In April 1998, ECNG bought Home Counties Newspapers Holdings plc with an agreed bid of approximately £58&nbsp;million. The bid earned the company the nickname of "The [[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corp.]] of East Anglia". HCNH published a range of 26 weekly paid and free titles across [[Greater London]] and the Home Counties. The title portfolio included the ''Hampstead & Highgate Express'', the ''[[South Essex Recorder]]'' series, the ''[[Herts Advertiser]]'' series, the ''Comet'' series, the ''Herald'' group and the ''[[Welwyn Hatfield|Welwyn & Hatfield Times]]''.

Consumer magazine publisher Market Link Publishing, now '''Archant Specialist''', based in [[Essex]] was acquired by ECNG for £5&nbsp;million in autumn 1999. Its titles now include ''[[Photography Monthly]]'', ''[[Professional Photographer]]'', ''Pilot'', ''Sport Diver'', ''Complete France'', which sponsors a French forum, ''French Property News'', ''Living France'', and ''France Property Shop''. It also sponsors ''The France Show'' at Olympia and ''The French Property Exhibitions'' in London and Yorkshire.