Orkla Media

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Orkla Media AS is a media company and newspaper publisher based in Oslo , Norway . Until 2005 the company was part of the Norwegian Orkla group, in 2006 it was bought and split up by the Mecom Group .

history

The investment company Mecom Group of the British media entrepreneur David Montgomery bought the company in 2006 for 970 million euros. After the acquisition, the company was gradually split into three holdings: Edda Media ( Norway ), Det Berlingske Officin ( Denmark , today Berlingske Media ) and Rzeczpospolita ( Poland ).

In June 2005 Orkla Media took over the network in Germany , in December 2005 the news portal Golem.de and in July 2006 the medical portal Netdoktor.de . At the same time, Orkla Media founded its own marketing company for activities in Germany in 2005: Orkla Media Sales GmbH .

On June 8, 2007 Orkla Media sold the Netzeitung Group to BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding . With this purchase, BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding also took over Orkla Media Sales GmbH, the Netzeitung Group's online marketer. The marketing company merged with the newly founded Online Media Sales Group (OMSG). With the takeover of Netzeitung by BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding, the online titles Golem.de and Netdoktor.de were sold to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group .

Newspapers

Orkla Media is the fifth largest media group in the Baltic region with sales of around € 1 billion in the 2004 financial year. In Norway, Orkla Media is involved in 31 regional newspapers and several websites. In Denmark there are over 60 newspapers, including Berlingske Tidende . In the Polish newspaper market, the market share in daily newspaper business is over 20 percent. Other activities include local radio and TV stations, electronic media and direct marketing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Handelsblatt online: "Montgomery is accessing again" , July 19, 2006
  2. ↑ Netzeitung.de - "About us": "Orkla Media buys Netzeitung" ( Memento from July 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), June 30, 2005
  3. ^ WirtschaftsWoche Online: "Orkla Media takes over Golem.de" , December 22, 2005
  4. ↑ Golem.de: "Orkla Media Germany takes over NetDoktor" , July 18, 2006
  5. ↑ Press release of the Netzeitung: "Orkla Media Germany founds marketing company" ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 13, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presseportal.de
  6. ↑ new business: "Deutsche Zeitungsholding acquires Netzeitung Group" , June 8, 2007
  7. ↑ Berlin Online: "Orkla Media Sales GmbH becomes the Online Media Sales Group" ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2009 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. , July 5, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinonline.de