![]() ![]() The company at this time was known as the International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL). Following the death of Thomson, the company withdrew from national newspapers and broadcast media, selling the Times, the Sunday Times to Rupert Murdoch's News International in 1981, and instead moved into publishing, buying Sweet & Maxwell in 1988. He moved into the airline business in 1965, when he acquired Britannia Airways and into oil and gas exploration in 1971, when he participated in a consortium to exploit reserves in the North Sea. He separately acquired the Times in 1967. In 1959, he bought the Kemsley Group, a purchase that eventually gave him control of the Sunday Times. He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957, when he won the franchise for Scottish Television. In 1953, Thomson acquired the Scotsman newspaper and moved to Scotland the following year. ![]() The forerunner of the Thomson company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934, in Ontario as the publisher of The Timmins Daily Press. ![]()
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