In November 1903, in the east-central Dutch city of Apeldoorn, Johan Frederik Wegener started publishing a news and advertising paper, which would later become Apeldoornse Courant. More than a century later, that small local publishing house has grown into today’s leading group specializing in newspapers and multimedia, Koninklijke (Royal) Wegener NV, with its headquarters located in Apeldoorn, and listed on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. Wegener is the largest publisher of regional daily newspapers and free door-to-door papers in the Netherlands.
Since October 2007, Mecom Group plc, based in London, has been the holder of an 87% majority interest in Wegener shares. read more
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Apeldoorn, January 5 2010
Transfer Wegener pension scheme to PGB finalised
Further to the press release of 14 October 2009 announcing our declaration of intent concerning the transfer of the Algemeen Pensioenfonds Wegener (APW) to Pensioenfonds for the Grafische Bedrijven (PGB), we can now announce that a final agreement on this transfer has been reached.
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Apeldoorn, December 23 2009
Wegener to leave the Nationale Regiopers
Koninklijke Wegener NV has announced that it will be ending its participation in the Nationale Regiopers CV (NRp) at the end of 2010. The NRp is the sales organisation for publishers of regional daily newspapers for use by national advertisers. The NRp was founded in 1998 by the collective regional daily newspapers.
Apeldoorn, November 17 2009
Royal Wegener achieves sharp cost-cutting successes, while recovery is not yet visible in the advertising market
As reported earlier this year, Royal Wegener, the Dutch multimedia group, was confronted with a strong decline in advertising revenues in the period from July through October 2009. Compared to the same period of 2008, there was an autonomous decrease of 24%. The advertising sales decline for the 2009 first half was 24% also. Whilst a recovery in the advertising market is not yet in sight, rates of decline are showing some stability. Advertising revenues including PCM Lokale Media (acquired mid July 2009) decreased by 21%.
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