Amedia

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Amedia
legal form Corporation
founding 1948
Seat Oslo
management Opdahl is different
sales NOK 3.57 billion (2018)
Branch Mass media
Website amedia.no

Amedia is the second largest media group in Norway in terms of sales . Until 2012 the company was called A-pressen , it originated from the Norwegian labor movement. The company has been owned by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB since 2016 .

history

In 1948 the Norsk Arbeiderpresse was founded as a company. The owners were the trade union umbrella organization Landsorganisasjonen i Norge (LO), the Arbeiderpartiet and the Arbeiderpressen. In 1990 Norsk Arbeiderpresse was restructured into a group in which the individual newspapers became subsidiaries. From 1995 she began to buy into TV 2 and some Russian printing companies. By 2007, Amedia owned a quarter of the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda . Since the sale of the shares, the group has focused exclusively on the printing business in Russia.

In June 2012, A-pressen took over the media company Edda Media from the British Mecom Group . A number of newspapers that were traditionally affiliated with the conservative Høyre party or the liberal Venstre were transferred to the A-press. These include the Drammen Tidende and the Fredrikstad Blad . The Norwegian cartel office Konkurransetilsynet as well as the media supervisory authority Medietilsynet only allowed the purchase after a sale of several newspapers that previously belonged to A-pressen. In the course of the acquisition, the group was renamed Amedia. She also sold her 50% stake in TV 2 to the Danish media company Egmont Foundation .

In 2016 the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB foundation took over the shares of the previous owners Landsorganisasjonen i Norge (LO), Telenor and Fritt Ord . Most recently, Telenor owned 44.2%, LO 35.65% and the Fritt Ord Foundation 2.97% of the group. In autumn 2018, Amedia took over all shares in Nordjø Media AS. With this, nine local newspapers in Rogaland and Vest-Agder were transferred to Amedia. Together with the Swedish media company Bonnier , they then bought the Swedish newspaper company Mittmedia , in which Amedia received 20 percent. Mittmedia published 28 newspapers at the time of the acquisition. Since February 2020 Amedia has been working with the company TA, which publishes newspapers such as Trønder-Avisa in Trøndelag .

Newspapers

In 2019, Amedia owned 72 subscription newspapers , 35 daily newspapers and 28 other newspapers that appear two or three times a week. The largest newspaper is the Drammen Tidende with a circulation of 27,154 in 2018. Amedia also owns 100 percent of the Internet newspapers Nettavisen and NA24. The group owns twelve printing plants in Norway and another six in Russia.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Årsrapport. Amedia, accessed April 12, 2020 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ a b c Olav Garvik: Amedia . In: Store norske leksikon . February 17, 2020 ( snl.no [accessed April 12, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Vår historie. In: Amedia. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ eggs. Amedia, accessed April 12, 2020 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ John Thomas Aarø: Stiftelse kjøper Amedia for 1.4 billion. February 22, 2016, accessed April 12, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  6. ↑ John Thomas Aarø, Karl Wig: LO selger seg ut av Amedia. February 23, 2016, accessed April 12, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).