BV German newspaper holding company
| BV German newspaper holding company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | October 2005 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| management | David Montgomery |
| Branch | Management activities of holding companies, media |
The BV German newspaper Holding GmbH was founded in October 2005 with the investors group Veronis Suhler Stevenson International Ltd. (VSS) and Mecom Group to acquire the Berliner Verlag mit Berliner Zeitung and Berliner Kurier from the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group . The holding also owns BerlinOnline Stadtportal GmbH & Co. KG , operator of berlinonline.de and berlin.de, the website of the State of Berlin, as well as Berliner Verlag Beteiligungen GmbH , whose wholly owned subsidiary Tip Verlag GmbH & Co. KG runs the city magazine tip Berlin appears.
history
- On January 27, 2006, the holding company bought Hamburger Morgenpost .
- On March 9, 2007, the Mecom financial group took over the shares of Veronis, Suhler, Stevenson (VSS) in BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding. In return, VSS received a minority stake in Mecom.
- On June 8, 2007, the holding company took over the Internet news portal “ Netzeitung ” from the Norwegian newspaper Orkla Media .
- On January 12, 2009, BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding was sold to the Cologne-based media publisher M. DuMont Schauberg (MDS) for EUR 152 million . A little later, this passed 35 percent on to the Cologne-based Heinen Verlag GmbH, which until 1999 had published the Kölnische Rundschau , which has since been published by MDS . In this relationship, MDS and Heinen-Verlag (majority shareholder: Helmut Heinen ) now have a stake in PMB Presse- und Medienhaus Berlin GmbH & Co. KG, the owner of BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding . MDS is intertwined with Heinen-Verlag through complex equity investments. Horst Röper , head of the FORMATT Institute in Dortmund, has determined that the calculated capital share of MDS at BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding is 72 percent; only 28 percent stay with Heinen.
management
The holding is managed by a supervisory board, which was previously chaired by David Montgomery and Gerd Schulte-Hillen .
literature
- Katharina Heimeier: Ownership structures of German newspaper publishers. A look at the development and organization of classic family publishers in comparison with alternative forms of ownership. (= Dissertation University of Dortmund; Dortmund contributions to newspaper research. 67.) De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-110-30156-4 .
Web links
- Commission to determine the concentration in the media sector : BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding GmbH on kek-online.de
- Montgomery buys Netzeitung on deutsche-startups.de
- BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding GmbH buys Netzeitung on bdzv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint on berlin.de, accessed on February 20, 2015.
- ↑ The company BERLINER VERLAG ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at comlineag.de, accessed on February 20, 2015 (PDF)
- ^ Montgomery buys "Hamburger Morgenpost" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . dated January 27, 2006, accessed February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Montgomery and Mecom take over majority. at mopo.de, accessed on February 20, 2015.
- ^ BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding GmbH acquires Netzeitung Group. at golem.de, accessed on February 20, 2015.
- ^ Berliner Verlag: Rohloff is the successor to Depenbrock. at wuv.de, accessed on February 20, 2015.
- ^ Ownership and ownership structure of BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding GmbH on kek-online.de, accessed on February 20, 2015.
