Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
  • Automotive Services
  • Communications
  • Media
Founded1898; 126 years ago (1898) in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
FounderJames M. Cox
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ProductsTelecommunications, Automotive, Mass media
RevenueUS$19.2 billion (Fiscal 2020)[1]
OwnerCox family[2][3]
Number of employees
50,000 (year end 2020)[1]
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.coxenterprises.com

Cox Enterprises, Inc. is an American privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Media Group, Cox Communications, and Cox Automotive. The company's major national brands include AutoTrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim Auctions and more.

Through Cox Automotive, the company's international operations stretch across Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America. Cox Enterprises is currently led by Alexander C. Taylor, a fourth-generation Cox family member and great-grandson of founder James M. Cox. James M. Cox's grandson, James C. Kennedy, and other members of the Cox family are on the company's board of directors.[4]

On March 2, 2020, the sale of Cox Media Group's Ohio newspapers was finalized back to Cox Enterprises, and subsequently formed Cox First Media.[5][6] This move was to ensure the publications would remain daily newspapers serving the southwest Ohio region.

  1. ^ a b "Cox Enterprises". Forbes.com. November 23, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "Cox Enterprises Inc. Financial Statements". Institute of Media and Communications Policy. September 17, 2012.
  3. ^ "Three Cox Billionaires Minted as Matriarch Gives Away Wealth". Bloomberg. November 20, 2015.
  4. ^ "Cox Enterprises Elects Alex Taylor and Jamie Kennedy to Board of Directors - Apr 22, 2014". Coxenterprises.mediaroom.com. April 22, 2014. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
  5. ^ Staff Report (March 2, 2020). "Jana Collier named publisher of Cox Enterprises' Ohio newspapers". Journal-News. Cox First Media. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  6. ^ Staff (March 2, 2020). "Cox First Media". Cox Enterprises. Cox First Media. Retrieved November 5, 2021.