Irish web design firm Granite Digital buys Rupert Murdoch’s Zesty

Irish web design firm Granite Digital buys Rupert Murdoch’s Zesty

Deal will bring Granite’s turnover to more than €20m this year

Conor Buckley, CEO of Granite Digital. Photo: Darragh Kane Photography

Granite Digital, an Irish agency, is buying the web-design business Zesty from Rupert Murdoch’s News UK publishing group.

The deal is expected to boost Granite’s annual revenues to about €20m this year. Last November, Granite had expected to generate turnover of more than €18m in 2025. One of the companies behind Granite Digital posted a €433,000 profit in 2023, the last year for which accounts are publicly available.

News UK publishes titles including The Times , The Sun and The Sunday Times , and also owns Virgin Radio in the UK.

Scott Taunton, executive vice-president of News UK