Schibsted
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Schibsted is a Norwegian
media conglomerate
with operations in 20 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden
. The company has its headquarters in Oslo
, Norway
and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange
.
Schibsted's present activities relate to media products and rights in the field of newspaper
s, television
, film
, publishing
, multimedia
and mobile services. Schibsted has ownership in a variety of formats; paper, the Internet
, television
, cinema
, video
, DVD
and wireless terminals (mobile telephones, PDAs
etc.).
and Verdens Gang
(VG), the second largest and largest newspapers in Norway, respectively. In addition the company has ownership in the newspapers Adresseavisen
(34.3%), Budstikka
(10.1%), Bergens Tidende
(24.4%), Fædrelandsvennen
(25.0%), Harstad Tidende
(who also own Bladet Tromsø
) (51.0%) and Stavanger Aftenblad
(31.5%). Through Aftenposten and VG Schibsted controls 20.6% of the Norwegian News Agency
and 100% of online financial newspaper E24 Næringsliv
.
, the Nordic countries
largest newspaper and Svenska Dagbladet
. Schibsted owns the largest TV and film production company in the Nordic area, Metronome Film & Television and the distribution company Metronome. In addition Schibsted owns the leading classified service Blocket.se and the largest catalogue service; Hitta.se http://www.hitta.se. Schibsted also publishes a number of magazine
s.
in France and 20 minutos
in Spain. The Swiss edition 20 Minuten
is now part of Tamedia
Group. The Russian free weekly Moy raion ("Мой район") is the latest addition. On March 1, 2011 it was announced that Schibsted has bought Latvian news website Tvnet.lv.
In 1989, under the leadership of Tinius Nagell-Erichsen
, Schibsted went from being a family-owned company to a corporation, and was listed on Oslo Stock Exchange in 1992. Kjell Aamot has been CEO
since 1989. In the 1990s and 2000s Schibsted bought a number of international newspapers.
In 2006 Schibsted acquired Anuntis-Segundamano from Trader Classified Media.
In spite of this, Finn.no had by 2005 grown to become Norway's largest and most comprehensive site for classified advertising, such as real estate and used vehicles. As of 2010, the site still retain this position.
. At a point in time, it was among the most trafficked sites in Norway, but as of 2009, the sites had been closed down in both markets.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
media conglomerate
Media conglomerate
A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet...
with operations in 20 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. The company has its headquarters in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange
Oslo Stock Exchange
The Oslo Stock Exchange serves as the main market for trading in the shares of Norwegian companies. It opens at 9:00am and closes 5:30pm local time...
.
Schibsted's present activities relate to media products and rights in the field of newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, publishing
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...
, multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
and mobile services. Schibsted has ownership in a variety of formats; paper, the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, cinema
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and wireless terminals (mobile telephones, PDAs
Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...
etc.).
Norway
Schibsted owns the two Oslo newspapers AftenpostenAftenposten
Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...
and Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...
(VG), the second largest and largest newspapers in Norway, respectively. In addition the company has ownership in the newspapers Adresseavisen
Adresseavisen
Adresseavisen is a regional newspaper published daily, except Sundays, in Trondheim, Norway. It is an independent, conservative newspaper with a daily circulation of approximately 85,000. It is also informally known as Adressa. The newspaper covers the areas of Trøndelag and Nordmøre.Adresseavisen...
(34.3%), Budstikka
Budstikka
Budstikka, prior to 2004 known as Asker og Bærum Budstikke, is a daily local newspaper published out of Billingstad in Asker, Norway. It covers the municipalities of Asker and Bærum, and is the only newspaper issued in the area.-History:...
(10.1%), Bergens Tidende
Bergens Tidende
Bergens Tidende is Norway's fourth largest newspaper and largest newspaper outside Oslo, with a circulation of about 87,000 copies . Founded in 1868, it is a Norwegian-language newspaper published daily in Bergen. It reaches approximately 260,000 readers every day , mainly in the counties of...
(24.4%), Fædrelandsvennen
Fædrelandsvennen
Fædrelandsvennen is a regional newspaper based in Kristiansand, Norway, covering the southernmost part of the country, , focusing especially on the area between Mandal and Lillesand .The newspaper has 235 employees and has 116 000 daily readers and a circulation of 37 934, making it Norway's...
(25.0%), Harstad Tidende
Harstad Tidende
Harstad Tidende is a daily, regional newspaper published in the city of Harstad, Norway. With a circulation of 13,503 it covers the municipalities of Harstad, Bjarkøy, Kvæfjord, Lødingen, Tjeldsund, Evenes, Skånland, Gratangen, Lavangen and Ibestad. The newspaper is owned by Harstad Tidende...
(who also own Bladet Tromsø
Bladet Tromsø
Bladet Tromsø is a daily newspaper published in Tromsø, Norway by Bladet Tromsø A/S, a subsidiary of Harstad Tidende, and through this part of the Schibsted Group. In 2006 the paper had an average circulation of about 110.000. It distributes daily, except Sundays...
) (51.0%) and Stavanger Aftenblad
Stavanger Aftenblad
Stavanger Aftenblad or simply Aftenbladet is a daily newspaper in Stavanger, Norway. It was founded in 1893 by the priest Lars Oftedal, and was for a long period a publication for the Liberal Party. It had a circulation of 68,186 copies in 2005...
(31.5%). Through Aftenposten and VG Schibsted controls 20.6% of the Norwegian News Agency
Norwegian News Agency
The Norwegian News Agency is a Norwegian press agency and wire service that serves many of the largest Norwegian media outlets. It also cooperates closely with the photo agency Scanpix, in which it has a 50% ownership share.NTB was founded in 1867...
and 100% of online financial newspaper E24 Næringsliv
E24 Næringsliv
E24 Næringsliv, formerly N24, is a Norwegian, online business newspaper launched on April 18, 2006.During the first three years of operation, the newspaper was owned 60 % by Aftenposten and 40 % by Verdens Gang , both fully owned by public media company Schibsted...
.
Sweden
In Sweden Schibsted owns AftonbladetAftonbladet
Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid founded by Lars Johan Hierta in 1830 during the modernization of Sweden. It is one of the larger daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. Aftonbladet is owned by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation and Norwegian media group Schibsted, and its editorial page...
, the Nordic countries
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
largest newspaper and Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...
. Schibsted owns the largest TV and film production company in the Nordic area, Metronome Film & Television and the distribution company Metronome. In addition Schibsted owns the leading classified service Blocket.se and the largest catalogue service; Hitta.se http://www.hitta.se. Schibsted also publishes a number of magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
s.
Switzerland
Schibsted Classified Media AG is based in Zurich, Switzerland. It is responsible for the online platform Tutti.ch existing since February 2010 and holding 170 000 ads and 1 million user. The structure of the site is built like the successful model blocket.se where users can insert their ads distinguished between cantons. All services of Tutti.ch are free so the site remains an independent mediation platform.Europe
Schibsted owns 20 Min Holding AG which participates in the publication of various editions of the free daily newspapers, such as 20 minutes20 minutes (France)
20 minutes is a free, daily newspaper aimed at commuters in France. It is published by Schibsted and Ouest France Group. 20 minutos, the Spanish version, is distributed by Schibsted and Zeta in Spain...
in France and 20 minutos
20 minutos
20 minutos is a free Spanish newspaper, with local editions in several Spanish cities, published by "Multiprensa & Mas S.L.", a company founded in Madrid in 1999....
in Spain. The Swiss edition 20 Minuten
20 Minuten
20 Minuten is a free German language daily newspaper in Switzerland, distributed to commuters at over 150 train stations across the country.The newspaper was first published in 1999 by "20 Minuten Schweiz AG"...
is now part of Tamedia
Tamedia
Tamedia AG is a media company in Switzerland.Its most important publications is the Tages-Anzeiger, a daily newspaper based in Zurich. It also owns the weekly SonntagsZeitung, the free national newspaper 20 Minuten, the free Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich, the weekly financial newspaper Finanz und...
Group. The Russian free weekly Moy raion ("Мой район") is the latest addition. On March 1, 2011 it was announced that Schibsted has bought Latvian news website Tvnet.lv.
History
In 1839 Christian Michael Schibsted founded the publishing company Schibsteds Forlag and in 1860 he started publishing Christiania Adresseblad, from 1885 known as Aftenposten. In 1966 Schibsted acquired VG.In 1989, under the leadership of Tinius Nagell-Erichsen
Tinius Nagell-Erichsen
Einar Fredrik Åke Tinius Nagell-Erichsen was a Norwegian publisher, noted for his leadership of the Schibsted media conglomerate which includes the broadsheet newspaper Aftenposten and the tabloid Verdens gang....
, Schibsted went from being a family-owned company to a corporation, and was listed on Oslo Stock Exchange in 1992. Kjell Aamot has been CEO
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
since 1989. In the 1990s and 2000s Schibsted bought a number of international newspapers.
In 2006 Schibsted acquired Anuntis-Segundamano from Trader Classified Media.
Finn.no
On March 17, 2000, Schibsted launched its online service for classified advertisements in the Norwegian market, which came to be known as Finn.no (meaning "to search" or "to find" in Norwegian) Finn.no. Finn had first been launched in print in Schibsted's newspapers, to build awareness and credibility in the Norwegian market. The online launch of the service could not have come at a worse time - it was launched immediately after the dot.com-bubble burst.In spite of this, Finn.no had by 2005 grown to become Norway's largest and most comprehensive site for classified advertising, such as real estate and used vehicles. As of 2010, the site still retain this position.
Sesam search engine
Schibsted also developed and launched an internet search engine in the Norwegian and Swedish markets in 2005, known as SesamSesam
Sesam was a Scandinavian internet search engine developed by the media corporation Schibsted. It was available both in a Norwegian and Swedish version and was launched on 1 November 2005. By 2007 Sesam.no had 480,000 unique users and was among the 12 largest web sites in Norway...
. At a point in time, it was among the most trafficked sites in Norway, but as of 2009, the sites had been closed down in both markets.
Schibsted Journalism Award
The Schibsted Journalism Award has been received by:- Kjetil Østli (2009) for his reporting on Ambulanse-saken, an incident that occurred when the team of an ambulance, answered a call.