page_title: Lonely Planet
section_title: BBC's sale to NC2
hierarchical_section_title: Lonely Planet / History / BBC's sale to NC2
caption_attribution_description: English: Lonely Planet headquarters in Footscray. Footscray. Nederlands: Het kantoor van Lonely Planet in Footscray. Norsk bokmål: Lonely Planets hovedkontor i Melbourne. Polski: Siedziba firmy w Footscray w Australii. Svenska: Lonely Planets huvudkontor i Melbourne.English: Looking south from Shepherd Bridge to office complex and en:Lonely Planet offices. In Footscray, Victoria, en:Australia.
context_page_description: Lonely Planet is a large travel guide book publisher. As of 2011, the company had sold 120 million books since inception.
context_section_description: By 2012 BBC wanted to divest itself of the company and in March 2013 confirmed the sale of Lonely Planet to Brad Kelley's NC2 Media for US$77.8 million (£51.5 million), at nearly an £80 million (US$118.89 million) loss.
caption: Lonely Planet's former headquarters in Footscray
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