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• The Cox family owns media giant Cox Enterprises, which had $22.1 billion in 2022 revenue.
• Cox Enterprises includes Cox Communications (cable and broadband), Cox Automotive (Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and Manheim) and newspapers including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
• Third-generation family member Jim Kennedy chairs the board; he served as CEO from 1988 to 2008.
• Alex C. Taylor is the president and CEO. He is a great-grandson of James M. Cox, who founded the Atlanta-based company in 1898.
• In December 2019, Cox sold a majority stake in its broadcast stations to Apollo Global Management for a reported $3 billion.
• In July 2023, James ?Fergie? Chambers, a cousin of Taylor and self-reported communist, announced that he had sold his shares back to protest the family's support of the Atlanta police.

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Fortune Founded

1898

Source of Wealth

media

Company Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia

Did you know

James M. Cox bought his first newspaper, the Dayton Evening News, in 1989. The company still owns the paper, now called the Dayton Daily News.

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