Naspers
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | ZAE000015889 |
| founding | May 12, 1915 |
| Seat | Cape Town , South Africa |
| management | Bob van Dijk ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 24,000 |
| sales | 73.1 billion rand (3.7 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Media, internet |
| Website | www.naspers.co.za |
| As of March 31, 2015 | |
Naspers is a South African media group headquartered in Cape Town and the largest media company on the African continent. The company is active in the areas of print media (newspapers, magazines, books), television ( pay TV ) and the Internet (as a provider and portal operator). Naspers holds a 30% stake in the Brazilian company Grupo Abril , the British company Tradus and the Polish Allegro . There are holdings worldwide, including in Brazil , China , Germany, Greece , India , the Netherlands , Russia and Thailand .
The subsidiary Media24 has a de facto monopoly on the Afrikaans-language newspapers and magazines . All the major Afrikaans-language newspapers appear there, specifically Rapport , Die Son , Die Burger , Beeld and Volksblad . There is also a participation in the Allgemeine Zeitung in Namibia . Over 100 titles with a total print run of several million copies are currently published.
The subsidiary Myriad International Holdings ( MIH Group ) maintains, among other things, the pay TV broadcaster M-Net , which operates 15 channels. Here, too, there is a de facto monopoly in the Afrikaans-speaking area with KykNet . With M-Web , Naspers is also one of the largest Internet providers in South Africa. About Via Africa Naspers is involved in several book publishers, including a majority interest in the scientific publishing Van Schaik .
Naspers shares are traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The company had a market value of around 113 billion US dollars in mid-2018, making it the most valuable company in Africa.
history
Naspers was founded in 1915 as Nasionale Pers and has its origins in Boer nationalism. The publishing house served as publisher of the newspaper Die Burger , which was founded in the same year, followed by the establishment of the magazine Huisgenoot in 1916 . The publisher's aforementioned newspapers (with the exception of Die Son , which was only founded in 2003) were loyal supporters of the government during the apartheid period . The first editor-in-chief of Die Burger , Daniel François Malan , later became one of the leading political exponents of apartheid as premier. After the end of this era began in 1989, the ties to the National Party began to loosen, as the former publishing house increasingly became a multimedia company. Since the 1990s, Naspers has also been increasingly involved in foreign companies, for example 30% of the Brazilian media group Grupo Abril was acquired in 2006 , followed by the purchase of the British Internet auction house Tradus in 2007 . Although the Afrikaans-language media has remained an important pillar in the print sector, the Group's English-language media have meanwhile become synonymous in this area and have become dominant in the areas of television and the Internet.
Naspers owns approximately 31.2% of the Chinese internet company Tencent . In April 2010 Tencent acquired shares in the Russian Internet company Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which was renamed the Mail.ru Group in September 2010, for US $ 300 million . In 2009 it acquired 3.5% of the Facebook shares for US $ 300 million . Naspers indirectly holds 0.12% in Facebook through these stakes. The Internet holdings were spun off to the Dutch Prosus NV in 2019 .
In 2019 Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa became CEO for South Africa.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2015
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: bpb.de - Mediendatenbank - National - Hubert Burda Media Holding GmbH & Co. In: www.bpb.de. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .
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- ^ The World's Largest Public Companies . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed July 17, 2018]).
- ↑ Hilton Tarrant: Naspers now owns a sliver of Facebook. In: Moneyweb. April 13, 2010, accessed December 15, 2010 .
- ↑ https://boerse.ard.de/aktien/prosus-spektakulaeres-boersendebuet-fuer-naspers-t Nahrungsmittel100.html
- ^ Naspers appoints CEO for South Africa. businesstech.co.za, July 3, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019