The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau BV (ANP) is the largest

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in the

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. ANP was founded on 11 December 1934 by the association of

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newspapers (NDP). The news agency's founders sought to produce a fast, fair and accurate alternative to the existing commercial news agencies. In 2021, management decided start using gender neutral wording.

Privatization

In 2000, the foundation was transformed into a private company, still owned by the newspaper publishers (NDP). In 2003 NPM Capital, the

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of the Dutch family owned conglomerate SHV, bought 60% of the shares from the publishers

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and Wegener. Within a year NPM sold 15% of the shares to the

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firm Halder, a subsidiary of the investment company GIMV. A minority stake remained in the hands of the Dutch newspapers (30%) and the management (10%). In 2007, the Dutch newspapers (NDP) sold their full 30% share stake to NPM, Halder and the management. In 2010 Vereniging Veronica acquired the entire ANP, remaining the owners until selling it to

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on 28 March 2018. Shortely thereafter, ANP took over photo agency Hollandse Hoogte. In 2021, Talpa sold the entirety of their stake in ANP to entrepreneur Chris Oomen. In 2021 ANP bought datapressagency LocalFocus. In 2022 ANP launched a new label for its communication services: ANP Business.

Workings

With 160 reporters, correspondents, editors and photographers ANP produces over 160.000 news articles a year, accompanied by 600.000 photos. The ANP Multimedia staff airs radio bulletins and edits news for online media and mobile phones. Throughout a network of international correspondents and news agencies ANP delivers foreign news to its customers. The daily production (in Dutch) consists of general, political, financial, sports and entertainment news. The archives of ANP Photo consist of over 2 million digital images and 2,5 million slides. ANP owns the archives of the former Dutch photoagencies Kippa and Benelux Press. Apart from the news productions, ANP Business supports non-media organisations with communication, distribution and pr. The ANP Business team operates completely separate from the news agency.

Offices

The staff of 250 people is headquartered since 2018 in

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and has editorial offices in

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(Economy and City), at Binnenhof in

(National political news) and

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

(European political news). Until the 1970s, the group was based on the

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in central Amsterdam. In the Netherlands, ANP represents the news agencies Agence France-Presse (AFP),

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(DPA),

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(Spain) and Belga (Belgium).

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ANP's photobank
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Privatization

Workings

Offices

See also

References

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