[4] Having managed and/or part-owned paper businesses up to 1894, in that year he acquired a fire-damaged building, Upper Tovil Mill, near Maidstone in Kent.
[5] He established a newsprint manufacturing company in this mill, specializing in the production of paper suitable for halftone blocks[6] for which there was considerable demand at the time.
[6] By 1904, Reed had five paper mills in Britain and was supplying "super calendared newsprint" that contributed to the success of the Harmsworth brothers'—Harold and Alfred Harmsworth—illustrated Daily Mirror.
"[9] In 1905, Reed began to investigate the possibility of establishing a pulp and paper mill in Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland, Canada.
[7] Newfoundland's "national policy" under then Premier Robert Bond was to develop a pulp and paper industry following the construction of the railway in the late nineteenth century.
[13] In the 1960s, King was Chairman of Daily Mirror, Sunday Pictorial, the International Publishing Corporation, and a Bank of England director.
[14] In the 1960s Reed Group formed a joint venture partnership with Aerlan and acquired L&P Plastics, Spicers, Wall Paper Manufacturers.
[11] In the 1970s, as Reed International PLC, the company "reorganised its portfolio in order to concentrate on its publishing and information businesses.
[11] The company once known as Reed Elsevier, now known as RELX is a London, United Kingdom-headquartered-multinational corporation, that includes businesses that provide scientific, legal, technical, and medical information and analytics among other services and has operations in 40 countries.
They had three daughters —Rosaline Emma (b.1877), Florence Beatrice (b.1879), and Dora Gertrude (b.1883), and twin sons Albert Ralph and Edward Percy born in 1885.