Agora SA

Agora SA

Infobox_Company
company_name = Agora SA
company_
company_type = Public (WSE: AGO, LSE: AGOD)
foundation =flagicon|Poland Warsaw, Poland (1989)
location_city = Warsaw
location_country = Poland
key_people = Marek Sowa Executive Chairman, Adam Michnik Co-founder
industry = Mass media
products = Gazeta Wyborcza
revenue = profit PLN 1.1 billion (2006) cite web
author = Agora
date = April, 2007
url = http://www.agora.pl/im/4/4244/m4244224.pdf
title = "Annual Report 2006"
work = www.agora.pl
publisher = Agora
accessdate = 2007-10-18]
operating_income = profit PLN 151 million (2006)
net_income = profit PLN 33 million (2006)
num_employees = 3400 (2007)
slogan =
homepage = [http://www.agora.pl www.agora.pl]

Agora Spółka Akcyjna or Agora SA (Agora Joint Stock Company) is a media corporation listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.

It is owner or co-owner of:
* a national daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza,
* a daily called "Metro" in several large Polish cities,
* 3 regional weeklies,
* 14 national colour magazines,
* 29 local one super-regional radio stations, including TOK FM, Roxy FM, Złote Przeboje, Blue FM
* a national outdoor advertising agency AMS,
* a major internet portal Gazeta.pl and an announcement website Aaaby.pl which is one of the largest on the Polish market.

In 2002 Agora tried to buy the national Polish television station Polsat. During this period the corruption scandal known as the Rywin affair, which involved relations between media and a law passing through parliament, occurred.

In 2005 Agora brought out a new daily Nowy Dzień but stopped printing it after a few months due to low sales. This failure, together with the success of a competing new daily Dziennik Polska-Europa-Świat published by the Polish branch of Axel Springer AG, influenced a long term fall of about 60% in the value of Agora's actions on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Relations with other Polish media

In September 2007, Agora sent a cease and desist notice to the independent media network Indymedia, in relation to an article discussing Agora's use of a logo allegedly similar to the one used by Indymedia, for an allegedly similar internet service.cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| coauthors =| title = Legal threats against Indymedia (ogróżki prawne wobec indymediów)| work =| language = Polish | publisher = Indymedia | date = 2007-09-30 | url = http://www.pl.indymedia.org/pl/2007/09/32183.shtml |format =| doi =| accessdate = 2007-10-06]

ee also

* Gazeta Wyborcza
* Polsat
* Indymedia

References

External links

* [http://www.agora.pl Agora SA]
* [http://www.ams.com.pl AMS]
* [http://www.gazeta.pl gazeta.pl]
* [http://metro.gazeta.pl Metro]
* [http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/tokfm TOK FM]
* [http://www.aaaby.pl Aaaby.pl]
* [http://www.informacje.int.pl/Agora Agora] – analysis by Paweł Pasionek o stanie spółki Agora S.A.
* [http://www.money.pl/gielda/spolki_gpw/agora;sa,AGO,informacje.html information about the stocks]


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