13 Facts About Cox Enterprises

1.

Cox Enterprises is currently led by Alexander C Taylor, a fourth-generation Cox family member and great-grandson of founder James M Cox.

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2.

Cox Enterprises became a member of Ohio's delegation to the United States House of Representatives and then the Governor of Ohio.

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3.

Cox Enterprises was the Democratic Party candidate for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1920, running unsuccessfully on a ticket that included Franklin D Roosevelt as the vice presidential candidate.

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4.

Governor Cox Enterprises purchased the Atlanta Journal in 1939 as well as radio station WSB.

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5.

In 1986, Cox Enterprises launched a new subsidiary Cox Video, which lined up eleven commitments for original video programs, four of them came from Media Home Entertainment, which are comedy-based tapes and seven of them came from Fox Hills Video, which are reality-based tapes, both subsidiaries of Heron Communications, and co-production budgets involve a total of $1.

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6.

Cox Enterprises entered the automotive industry in 1965 with the purchase of Black Book.

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7.

In 2014, Cox Enterprises brought its automotive-related businesses together under the Cox Automotive name.

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8.

Cox Enterprises Communications formed an alliance with the?Cleveland Clinic?to take Healthcare to the home in February 2015.

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9.

In 2019, Cox Enterprises Communications earned the No 11 spot on the 2019 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.

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10.

Cox Enterprises Media Group is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company.

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11.

In 2019 Cox Enterprises reached an agreement with Apollo Global Management to buy a majority interest in Cox Media Group's broadcast television stations, including the company's radio, newspaper, and TV properties in Ohio, and its local OTT advertising subsidiary – Gamut.

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Cox Enterprises Conserves is the company's national sustainability program that focuses on alternative energy, community investment, employee engagement, energy conservation, waste diversion, recycling, and water conservation.

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13.

Since its launch in 2007, Cox Enterprises has invested more than $120 million in over 400 sustainability and conservation projects through Cox Conserves to drive positive environmental change within the organization, among stakeholders, and within the communities being served.

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