East Frisia newspaper group

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The ZGO Zeitungsgruppe Ostfriesland GmbH is a publishing house for daily and weekly newspapers in East Friesland with headquarters in Leer . It emerged in 2002 from the merger of the General-Anzeiger in Rhauderfehn with the Ostfriesen-Zeitung in Leer. In October 2008, the ZGO management announced that the Norderneyer bath newspaper had also been acquired.

Shareholders and antitrust proceedings

The ZGO belonged partly to the Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ) and the Nordwest-Medien GmbH & Co. KG (NW-Medien) in Oldenburg and to other parts of the NWZ publishing family. This led to proceedings by the Federal Cartel Office, which evaluated these shares as an overall package and complained that the market was too concentrated in connection with the holdings of NW-Medien in other newspapers in East Frisia. On October 2, 2007, the managing directors of NW-Medien announced that they would initiate an unbundling of the participation in the Ostfriesland newspaper group and the East Frisian newspaper publishers' working group.

Siebe Ostendorp Druckerei und Verlag GmbH from Rhauderfehn, the former publisher of the General-Anzeiger, as well as Dunkmann Beteiligungs GmbH and AHF Dunkmann GmbH and Co. KG from Aurich, which publishes Ostfriesische Nachrichten , acquired the shares in the ZGO . Both publishers were previously shareholders of the ZGO, and other East Frisian publishers hold shares.

Appearing titles

  • Advertisement-financed weekly newspapers:
    • The alarm clock : advertising paper distributed free of charge in the district of Leer -
    • From house to house (formerly from house to house / weekly market / the alarm clock on Wednesday ): advertising paper distributed free of charge in the district of Leer - was discontinued in 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ostfriesland newspaper group acquires "Norderneyer Badezeitung" . Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers eV. November 6, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2013.