Egmont Foundation

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The Egmont Foundation is the parent company of the Danish media company Egmont , which was founded in 1878 by Egmont Harald Petersen under the name P. Peterson Druckerei . The company is based in Copenhagen and is now a leading media group in Scandinavia.

Foundation, endowment

Shortly before his death, Egmont Harald Petersen converted his company into a foundation, as neither of his children was of legal age, nor was his wife possible for a successor as managing director. The aim of the foundation was to secure the family's financial situation as well as to support charitable causes. Every year Egmont donates € 13 million to improve the lives of children and young people. Since 1920 the foundation has donated more than € 370 million.

Career

When he died, Petersen left behind an ambitious company with 115 employees and a turnover of around 800,000 kroner (equivalent to approx. 38 million kroner today). The company continued to expand, particularly in Scandinavia, and is now the market leader in magazines and journals , with an estimated readership of 5 million in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

After the Second World War, the then managing director managed to enter into a cooperation with Walt Disney . This secured the publishing house joint rights to the printing and distribution of the Disney comics . The first Disney comic appeared in Sweden in 1948. In 1951 the subsidiary Ehapa was founded in Germany for this purpose . From the 1980s and 1990s, it expanded to Eastern Europe and Asia. Today the Egmont publishing group is represented in 20 countries.

In 1963 Egmont bought the Danish publishing house Aschehoug , which was in dire straits with the publication of an encyclopedia. This publishing house was followed by others in Scandinavia, so that Egmont is now the market leader in Scandinavia when it comes to book publications. Egmont is also one of the largest publishers in the world of children's books.

Egmont recognized the influence of the film and television medium early on. Therefore, an own advertising agency was founded, which primarily took care of the advertisers for their own magazines and journals. In 1992 it merged with the oldest film studio in the world, Nordisk Film (founded in 1906) and has developed into the largest private film and television production company in Scandinavia

In 2008, the largest Norwegian magazine publisher Hjemmet Mortensen and 50% of Zentropa were taken over.

In the following years, Egmont acquired other companies that accelerated the company's growth and increased the share of digital sales in total sales. Today Egmont is owned by TV 2 Norge (Norway's largest commercial media group), Nordisk Film including 50% of Zentropa (largest Scandinavian film producer and distributor, various computer / mobile game producers, and exclusive distributor for PlayStation ), Egmont Publishing (published more than 700 magazines worldwide and is involved in various leading online retailers and advertising agencies), various book and educational publishers (Lindhardt og Ringhof, Alinea, Alfabeta etc.).

Economic data

  • Current CEO : Steffen Kragh
  • Sales: € 1,560 million (2016)
  • Employees: around 6,200 (2016)
  • Divisions:
    • Film, advertising and television production (mainly Scandinavia)
    • Magazines and journals (mainly Scandinavia)
    • TV station (mainly Norway)
    • Computer and mobile game producers (worldwide)
    • Online dealer (Scandinavia)
    • Advertising agencies (Scandinavia)
    • Comics, preschool and youth books (worldwide)
    • General literature (mainly Scandinavia)
    • Learning materials (mainly Scandinavia)
    • eSports (worldwide)
    • VR (worldwide)
    • Gift Cards (Worldwide)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egmont Fonden - Egmont Foundation - A Good Life for Children and Young People. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  2. ^ About Egmont. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Egmont acquires the rest of Norwegian TV 2. Accessed January 18, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ Game-creation platform Kogama.com receives investment from leading entertainment group. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  5. ^ Avalanche Studios partners with Nordisk Film. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Gaming. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  7. ^ About Egmont. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Outnorth: Egmont Publishing aims to double e-commerce sales of € 130 million . In: Exciting Commerce . January 11, 2017 ( excitingcommerce.de [accessed on January 18, 2018]).
  9. ^ Egmont acquires Nordic e-commerce company. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  10. ^ Egmont Publishing. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ New eSport organization NORTH aims for top position. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Partners - Nordic VR Startups . In: Nordic VR Startups . ( nordicvrstartups.com [accessed January 18, 2018]).