Wegener (company)
Company type | Public |
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Founded | 1988 |
Headquarters | Laan van Westenenk 4 7300 HB Apeldoorn Nederland |
Key people | Joop Munsterman Manager of the Board of Directors and CEO) |
Products | Publishers, printers, reproduction of recorded media |
Revenue | € 679 million (2006) |
€ 15,5 million (2006) | |
Number of employees | 4,337 |
Website | wegener.nl |
Koninklijke Wegener NV was a Dutch publisher of newspapers. It was the largest publisher of daily regional newspapers, free local newspapers and special interest magazines in the Netherlands. It also sold internet products and graphical products. The company ceased to exist when it was acquired by Belgian media company
History
The origin of Wegener can be found in November 1903.
Since 6 February 2007 all Wegener newspapers are in tabloid format. It is the "largest publisher of regional newspapers and door-to-door papers in the Netherlands".[1]
Companies
Wegener consisted of about 40 businesses, both in the Netherlands as in some other European countries.
- De Gelderlander
- De Stentor
- Brabants Dagblad
- BN/De Stem / PZC
- De Twentsche Courant Tubantia
- Eindhovens Dagblad
- Wegener Huis-aan-huisMedia
- Wegener Multimedia
- Wegener DM
- Wegener Grafische Groep
- Wegener Golf
- JobTrack
- AutoTrack
- Funda N.V.
Wegener used to own AD Nieuwsmedia (the company that publishes Algemeen Dagblad and four regional newspapers by Wegener)together with PCM, another Dutch publisher, from 2005 to 2009. This publisher encompassed twenty regional editions of the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. In 2009 Wegener sold AD Nieuwsmedia to PCM.
Wegener was taken over by the British
References
- ^ "History" (in Dutch). Wegener (media). Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ^ "De Persgroep mag Wegener overnemen" (in Dutch). 11 February 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.