De Persgroep
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De Persgroep NV is a Flemish
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 media company owned by the Van Thillo family. In 1978 the family obtained 60 percent of shares in the publishing company Hoste. When in 1990 the rest of the shares were acquired, the company’s name was changed to De Persgroep.

In 2003 the group’s annual turnover was 334 million euros.

In December 2009, the company merged with PCM Publishing to become De Persgroep Nederland. The enlarged group adds the newspapers Algemeen Dagblad
Algemeen Dagblad
The Algemeen Dagblad is a Dutch newspaper. Founded in Rotterdam in 1946, it currently has a daily circulation of 315,000. The newspaper is owned by AD NieuwsMedia, a joint venture between Wegener and PCM Uitgevers....

, de Volkskrant
De Volkskrant
de Volkskrant is a national daily Dutch morning newspaper, the leading centre-left broadsheet, although now in tabloid size.-History:...

, Trouw
Trouw
Trouw is a Dutch daily newspaper. "Trouw" is a Dutch word meaning "fidelity", "loyalty", or "allegiance", and is cognate with the English adjective "true"...

, NRC Handelsblad
NRC Handelsblad
NRC Handelsblad, often abbreviated to NRC, is a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The newspaper was created on October 1, 1970, from merger of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and Algemeen Handelsblad . In 2006 a morning newspaper, nrc•next, was launched...

, nrc.next
Nrc.next
nrc•next is a Dutch daily newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The first edition was released on March 14, 2006. nrc•next is a morning edition tabloid, and its primary target group are young higher educated people.-History:...

 and Het Parool
Het Parool
Het Parool is an Amsterdam-based daily newspaper. It was founded as a resistance paper during World War II by Frans Van Heuven Goedhart and Jaap Nunes Vaz...

.

TV and radio stations

De Persgroep and Roularta Media Group owe 50 percent shares each of Vlaamse Media Maatschappij
Vlaamse Media Maatschappij
Vlaamse Media Maatschappij is a Belgian company, and parent company of the first Flemish commercial television station: vtm. VMMa was founded in 1987 as Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij by nine publishers each with a 11.1% share. Since 1998, De Persgroep and the Roularta Media Group each have a 50%...

 (VMMa). VMMa is, in turn, the owner of the following media outlets:

TV
  • VTM
    Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij
    vtm or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij is the main commercial television station in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium.It went live in 1989 and quickly became the Flemish market leader...

  • 2BE
  • JIMtv


Radio
  • Q-music (Belgium)
  • Q-music (Netherlands, as of mid-2005)
  • Radio BemBem (children's radio, digital/cable)

Newspapers

  • Het Laatste Nieuws
    Het Laatste Nieuws
    Het Laatste Nieuws is a Dutch language newspaper based in Brussels, Belgium. It was founded by Julius Hoste Sr. on 7 June 1888. It is now part of De Persgroep, and has a circulation of 292,410 copies, making it the most popular newspaper in Flanders and Belgium.- Comics :During World War II, The...

    , daily, Belgium
  • De Morgen
    De Morgen
    De Morgen is a Flemish newspaper with a circulation of 53,860. It originates from a merger in 1978 of two socialist newspapers Vooruit and Volksgazet ....

    , daily, Belgium
  • Vacature.com weekly, employment opportunities, Belgium
  • L'Echo
    L'Echo
    L'Echo is a Belgian newspaper, published by Mediafin and mainly distributed in Wallonia and Brussels. It is the French counterpart of the Flemish daily De Tijd....

    , French-speaking (partly co-owned by Rossel
    Rossel (Belgium)
    Rossel is a major media group in Brussels and Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. The daily newspaper Le Soir is one of their main and most successful publications...

    )
  • De Tijd
    De Tijd
    De Tijd , formerly De Financieel-Economische Tijd , is a Belgian broadsheet newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics...

     (a financial daily (partly co-owned by Rossel
    Rossel (Belgium)
    Rossel is a major media group in Brussels and Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. The daily newspaper Le Soir is one of their main and most successful publications...

    )
  • Het Parool
    Het Parool
    Het Parool is an Amsterdam-based daily newspaper. It was founded as a resistance paper during World War II by Frans Van Heuven Goedhart and Jaap Nunes Vaz...

     in the Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     (partly co-owned by Stichting Democratie en Media)
  • Trouw, daily, the Netherlands
  • Algemeen Dagblad
    Algemeen Dagblad
    The Algemeen Dagblad is a Dutch newspaper. Founded in Rotterdam in 1946, it currently has a daily circulation of 315,000. The newspaper is owned by AD NieuwsMedia, a joint venture between Wegener and PCM Uitgevers....

    , daily, the Netherlands
  • de Volkskrant
    De Volkskrant
    de Volkskrant is a national daily Dutch morning newspaper, the leading centre-left broadsheet, although now in tabloid size.-History:...

    , daily, the Netherlands

Magazines

One of the company’s subsidiaries Magnet Magazines publishes the following magazines:
  • Dag Allemaal / TV Ekspres
  • TV-Familie / Blik
  • Joepie
  • Goed Gevoel
  • Genieten
  • Netwerk (till 2007)
  • Uw Vermogen
  • Woef


Zone/magazines, free city papers
  • Zone 02/ (Brussels
    Brussels
    Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

    )
  • Zone 03/ (Antwerpen)
  • Zone 09/ (Gent
    Ghent
    Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

    )


Websites
  • www.hln.be http://www.hln.be] (News
    News
    News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...

  • www.7sur7.be http://www.7sur7.be] (News
    News
    News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...

    )
  • www.regiojobs.be http://www.regiojobs.be.be] (jobs)
  • www.autozone.be http://www.autozone.be] (Used Cars
    Used Cars
    Used Cars is a 1980 comedy satire film. It stars Kurt Russell, Jack Warden , Deborah Harmon, and Gerrit Graham.Kurt Russell portrays a devious car salesman working for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Luke Fuchs . Luke's principal rival, located directly across the street, is...

    )
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