NEWS (publishing)

Verlagsgruppe NEWS Gesellschaft m.b.H. (NEWS Publishing Group) is an Austrian publishing company that publishes fifteen magazines, including "profil", a monthly news magazine, "NEWS", a weekly news magazine, and "NEWS online".

NEWS has over 500 employees and approximately 60% of the magazine advertising market in Austria. [http://www.guj.de/index_en.php4?/en/presse/meldaktuell/meldaktuell_041025_10_ENG.php4 (October 25, 2004) "Trailblazer: A Portrait Of The NEWS Publishing Group" "G+J News"] ]

Prior to their merger in 2001, leadership in the Austrian magazine market was contested between NEWS and the Kurier group, who at that time published "profil". The merger was unsuccessful challenged by seven Austrian newspapers. ["Magazinfusion kommt vor EU-Behorde" "Der Standard" (Vienna) 13 July 2001] NEWS is (2007) controlled by Gruner + Jahr, a printing and publishing company with headquarters in Hamburg, who own 56 percent of the stock.

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External links

* [http://www.news.at/magazin/ "NEWS magazin" homepage] in German
* [http://www.publicitas.com/publicard.asp?PARAM1=NW5NW1&id=5.1.3&lng=1 "Verlagsgruppe NEWS Gesellschaft m.b.H." "Publicitas Promotion Network"] in English