Styria Media Group
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1869 |
| Seat | Graz , Austria |
| management | Markus Mair , Kurt Kribitz, Bernhard Kiener |
| Number of employees | approx. 3,000 (2019) |
| sales | 415 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Media company , holding company |
| Website | www.styria.com |
The Styria Media Group AG , Styria for short, is the third largest media company in Austria after the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and just behind the Mediaprint Group. The company, whose best-known media are the daily newspapers Kleine Zeitung and Die Presse , also operates internationally. In Slovenia and Croatia in particular , the group has several media with a wide reach.
history
The company emerged from the Catholic Press Association founded in 1869 in the Graz-Seckau diocese . This association wanted to perceive and promote journalistic tasks in the Christian spirit in the public interest , as it was called in a later basic text. The operation of the press association institutions began on January 1, 1870 with the opening of the association book printing plant. Since 1880 the institutions of the press association operated under the name Styria . From 1886 the printing house of the Styria kk university book printing company was allowed to call itself . In 1887 the company expanded with the purchase of the Gutenberg book printing company, and in 1893 the Stiftersche book printing and bookshop in Judenburg was bought. At that time, the publishing house mainly published theological, popular, fiction, historical literature and church music.
In 1904 the Kleine Zeitung was founded in Graz , which subsequently became the flagship of Styria . In the 1920s and 1930s, the company also owned other regional newspapers, printers, book publishers and bookshops. Due to its Catholic orientation, the company was "brought into line" between 1938 and 1945 and the traditional name Styria was eliminated from all official company names . The Kleine Zeitung and other daily and weekly newspapers of the company had to be forcibly sold to the National Socialist Südostdeutsche Zeitungsverlags GmbH .
After the end of the war , the Styria was rebuilt, the company was taken over by the rightful owner, the Catholic Press Association . The Kleine Zeitung , which was banned by the Soviet occupation authorities in May 1945 , was able to appear again from 1948 and contributed significantly to Styria's economic upswing . Further milestones in the company's development were the assumption of main responsibility for the weekly newspaper Die Furche in 1976 and the gradual takeover of the traditional Austrian newspaper Die Presse from 1991. In 1997 the company was converted into a stock corporation. 98.33% of the shares are owned by the Katholischer Medien Verein Privatstiftung (formerly the Katholischer Preßverein Privatstiftung ) and 1.67% by the Katholischer Medien Verein (formerly the Katholischer Preßverein ).
In 2001, Styria entered foreign business with the takeover of the traditional newspaper Večernji list , followed in 2003 by entering the Slovenian market. Among other things, the free magazine Žurnal 24 was published in Ljubljana from 2007 to 2014 . Regionalmedien Austria AG , a 50:50 joint venture between Styria and Moser Holding AG in the area of regional free weekly newspapers , started in spring 2009 . On July 16, 2009 the company was renamed from Styria Medien AG to Styria Media Group AG .
In April 2012, Styria Digital Holding GmbH was founded . The subsidiary is responsible for the further development of the online portfolio of Styria Media Group AG .
On June 10, 2015, the Styria Media Center , a strikingly curved new building on a former soccer field between Ostbahn and Stadthalle , was officially opened. The address is Gadollaplatz 1. The new square was named unanimously on September 18, 2014 by the Graz municipal council after the Catholic martyr Josef von Gadolla , who was born in Graz and who , as military commander, prepared the city for surrender in the last weeks of the Second World War Gotha saved a lot of destruction and suffering. The Styria board of directors used this name for a long time, so a postal address after the adjacent street, named after the general Conrad von Hötzendorf , was avoided. The almost 60 meter high building with 14 floors above ground and 18,000 m² of usable space was moved into in spring 2015 after a two-year planning period and an equally long construction period. The building is a Green Building certified according to Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). The editorial offices of print, radio and online are combined in an integrated newsroom.
management
After the resignation of the Styria board chairman Horst Pirker in September 2010, his agendas were divided between the two board members Wolfgang Bretschko and Klaus Schweighofer.
In October 2013 Markus Mair took over the position of CEO of Styria Media Group AG. Kurt Kribitz has been a member of the Executive Board since January 2016. Bernhard Kiener has been the new third member of the Styria Media Group AG board since May 2018.
The Supervisory Board meets at least four times a year. The Supervisory Board is composed of: Friedrich Santner (Chairman), Othmar Ederer (Deputy Chairman), Petra Schachner-Kröll, Eva Heigl, Karl Schleinzer, Claudia Gigler, Michael Lohmeyer and Josef Klapsch.
media
Styria includes numerous daily newspapers , weekly newspapers , magazines , customer magazines (MCA), regional magazines, magazines in Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia (Adria Media), supplements, online services , two radio stations , and participation in a TV station and four book publishers (Styria, Pichler, Kneipp and Molden Verlag). The group also owns the printing companies (including the Carinthia printing company , which prints the Carinthian edition of the Kleine Zeitung, among others), logistics, advertising, IT and software development companies.
Daily newspapers
- 24 sata (Croatia)
- The press (Austria)
- Dnevnik (Slovenia)
- Small newspaper (Austria)
- Poslovni dnevnik (Croatia)
- Večernji list (Croatia)
- Vijesti (Montenegro)
- WirtschaftsBlatt (Austria) (1995-2016)
Weekly newspapers
- The furrow (Austria)
- der Grazer (Austria)
- Carinthian Regional Media (Austria)
- Murtaler Zeitung (Austria)
- Nedeljski Dnevnik (Slovenia)
- Week picture post (Austria)
- Week Ennstal (Austria)
- Week Graz & Surroundings (Austria)
- Week Hartberger District Newspaper (Austria)
- Week Carinthia (Austria)
- Week Southwest Styria (Austria)
- Week previously Obersteirer (Austria)
- Week Weizer Zeitung / Gleisdorf Week (Austria)
Magazines
- Adria Media (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia)
- Alpe Adria Magazin (Austria)
- Business People (Austria)
- DIVA (Austria)
- miss (Austria)
- Active sport (Austria)
- Sports magazine (Austria; until 2018)
- tele (Austria)
- TV tjedan (Croatia)
- Wienerin (Austria)
Online media
- www.24sata.hr (Croatia)
- diepresse.com (Austria)
- www.dnevnik.si (Slovenia)
- www.kleinezeitung.at (Austria)
- www.vecernji.hr (Croatia)
- willhaben.at (Austria)
- www.wirtschaftsblatt.at (Austria) (until 2016)
- www.woche.at (Austria)
- www.ichkoche.at (Austria)
- www.bolha.com (Slovenia)
- www.njuskalo.hr (Croatia)
- www.spox.com (Austria)
- www.wogibtswas.at (Austria)
- www.gutmachen.at (Austria)
- www.ligaportal.at (Austria)
- www.gesund.at (Austria)
- www.miss.at (Austria)
- www.mojedelo.com (Slovenia)
- www.miss7mama.24sata.hr (Croatia)
- www.mondo.hr (Croatia)
- www.budi.in (Croatia)
- www.ordinacija.hr (Croatia)
- www.goal.com/hr (Croatia)
- www.tennisnet.com (Austria)
- www.miss7zdrava.24sata.hr (Croatia)
- www.gastro.hr (Croatia)
- www.mojkvart.hr (Croatia)
Audiovisual media
- Radio: Antenne Kärnten , Antenne Steiermark
Book publishers
- Styria Verlag (Austria)
- Kneipp Verlag (Austria)
- Molden Verlag (Austria)
- Pichler Verlag (Austria)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918 - 1938. Volume 1, Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Graz 1985, p. 62.
- ^ Matthias Opis: An unknown quantity. The company history of Styria Medien AG. Report on an ongoing project. In: Communications from the Society for Book Research in Austria. 2006, p. 92.
- ↑ Company history on styria.com ( Memento of the original from July 18, 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.
- ↑ Žurnal24 zapira vrata. In: delo.si. Retrieved November 13, 2016 (Slovenian).
- ↑ Med odpuščenimi žurnalovci tudi devet novinark na porodniškem dopustu :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija. In: rtvslo.si. Retrieved November 13, 2016 (Slovenian).
- ↑ Company history on styria.com ( Memento of the original from July 18, 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.
- ^ Website of the Styria Digital Holding
- ↑ Bernd Melichar: Styria Media Center ceremoniously opened kleinezeitung.at, June 11, 2015, accessed November 13, 2016.
- ↑ From the municipal council II: New Gadollaplatz as a peace signal ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 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. City of Graz, September 18, 2014, accessed November 13, 2016.
- ↑ The standard : [1]
- ↑ Styria gets another board member with Kurt Kribitz , derstandard.at, December 14, 2015
- ↑ Disclosures according to § 25 MedienG , Styria Media Group AG, accessed on November 15, 2013
- ↑ http://derstandard.at/2379056
- ^ Print Carinthia. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 22, 2015 ; Retrieved July 21, 2014 . 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.
