De Persgroep Nederland
| De Persgroep Nederland | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Besloten Vennootschap |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat |
Amsterdam , Netherlands
|
| management | Bert Groenewegen, CEO |
| Number of employees | 2,907 (2006) |
| sales | 675 million euros (2006) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.pcmuitgevers.nl |
De Persgroep Nederland (formerly PCM Uitgevers BV ) is a Dutch publishing group based in Amsterdam .
history
Rise to monopoly
In the 1960s, the Dutch newspapers entered a phase of upheaval. The newspapers with an ecclesiastical background began to throw it off completely or to push it back, those who stuck to it experienced a massive loss of importance and some of them were later discontinued. The daily newspapers De Telegraaf and Algemeen Dagblad, which were non-denominational from the start, were on the other hand in a meteoric rise to the mass paper.
The publisher of the Catholic daily de Volkskrant , the Nederlands Katholiek Vakverbond (NKV), was no longer able to publish a newspaper on its own in the long run. In the mid-1960s, negotiations began with the social democratic daily Het Parool about a merger. After lengthy negotiations, the two finally merged in 1968 to form the joint venture "Perscombinatie", which was initially dominated by Het Parool in a 60:40 ratio. A number of conflicts arose between the two newspapers in the early years, but there was no break. In 1975 the Protestant Trouw joined. With the implementation of the previous minority stake in the book publisher Meulenhoff, which had been in an expansion phase for some time, in 1994, the name changed to PCM Uitgevers ([P] ers [c] ombinatie / [M] eulenhoff ) hand in hand. In 1995, Reed Elsevier took over PCM Uitgevers for 865 million guilders Dagblad Unie , publisher of Algemeen Dagblad and NRC Handelsblad . PCM Uitgevers now had the monopoly over the national quality newspapers in the Netherlands.
Restructuring of the group
At the turn of the millennium, mainly due to the new competition in the form of the Internet and the Dutch branch of the free newspaper Metro , which has been appearing since 1999 , the circulation of the daily newspapers began to decrease considerably. The loss of circulation at Het Parool was so dramatic that, after it had previously been redesigned into an Amsterdam city newspaper, it was spun off from the group on January 1, 2003. Since the former edition croesus Algemeen Dagblad also had to struggle with losses, a joint venture was entered into in 2005 with Wegener NV , a publisher active in the local newspaper market. Several of Wegener's local newspapers were incorporated as a local section into the Algemeen Dagblad , which changed its name to the short form AD . The initial circulation of the fusion newspaper was more than doubled compared to that of the old Algemeen Dagblad , but then fell significantly. At the end of 2006, there was a tendency to stabilize the circulation.
In the meantime, in July 2004 the investment company Apax had joined the group with 52.5% (47.5% Apax itself, 5% a foundation controlled by Apax); However, this engagement was short-lived, in March 2007 it sold its shares back to the former majority owner Stichting Democratie en Media . This was followed by a serious crisis at the Group's management level. On April 5, the resignation of the CEO Ton aan de Stegge due to disagreements with the Stichting Democratie en Media about the future course of the company was announced, six days later the announcement of the resignation of two of the three supervisory board members, including the chairman Erik van, followed de Merwe. Bert Groenewegen took over as CEO at the end of 2007.
On May 8, 2007, DAG was the Group's first free newspaper, for which a joint venture with the telecommunications company KPN was entered into. With this fourth free newspaper from the Netherlands, PCM Uitgevers followed suit in a development that began in June 1999 with the expansion of the Swedish free newspaper metro to the Netherlands.
takeover
On March 3, 2009 it was announced that the Belgian De Persgroep NV would take over 51% of the shares for the amount of 100 million euros.
Most important pillars of the group
Newspapers
- AD (joint venture with Wegener NV )
- de Volkskrant
- NRC Handelsblad
- Trouw
Publishers
Former important corporate components
Newspapers
- Het Parool (spun off on January 1, 2003)
Publishers
- Prometheus / Bert Bakker (outsourced on June 1, 2007)
Proportions
The shares in the company are held by four foundations (as of April 2009):
- Stichting Democratie en Media - 90.3% (name until the spin-off of Het Parool: Stichting Het Parool)
- Stichting de Volkskrant - 7.2%
- Stichting ter Bevordering van de Christelijke Pers - 2.5%
- Stichting Lux et Libertas - a share
Literature on the group components
- Huub Wijfjes: Journalistiek in Nederland 1850-2000. Beroep, cultuur en organisatie. Boom, Amsterdam 2004. ISBN 90-5352-949-7
- Piet Bouwmeester: De gouden greep van 'Woeste Willem'. De roerige geschiedenis van het zelfstandige Algmeen Dagblad. Adr. Heinen, 's Hertogenbosch 2006. ISBN 90-8680-029-7
- Joan Hemels: De emancipatie van een dagblad. Geschiedenis van de Volkskrant. Ambo, Baarn 1981. ISBN 90-263-0537-0
- Frank de Vree: De metamorfose van een dagblad. A journalistieke is divorced from the Volkskrant. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1996. ISBN 90-290-5379-8
- Co Welgraven: Typically Trouw, an autobiography van de redactie. Trouw, Amsterdam 2002. ISBN 90-70675-65-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ pcmuitgevers.nl : Press release of April 5, 2007 ( Memento of the original of April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch)
- ↑ pcmuitgevers.nl : Press release of April 11, 2007 ( Memento of the original of April 29, 2007 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. (Dutch)
- ↑ pcmuitgevers.nl : press release of March 3rd, 2009 ( Memento of the original of March 7th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch)
