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Mediahuis is a newspaper & magazine publishing, distribution, printing, TV, radio and online media company founded in 2014 with assets in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany. Mediahuis publishes daily newspaper titles in Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland as well as regional titles, and is involved in broadcasting a number of Dutch and French language TV and radio stations. Irish assets are held in Independent News & Media subsidiary. The headquarters of Mediahuis is in Antwerp.


History

Mediahuis was founded in January 2014 as a joint venture of two Flemish media corporations Corelio and Concentra. They entered into a collaboration around their paper and digital publishing activities. Corelio took 62% of the shares, Concentra the remaining 38%. In 2015, Mediahuis acquired the Dutch NRC Media group. In 2017 it acquired the Dutch Telegraaf Media Groep and VP Exploitatie joined as third shareholder. It took 16.7% of the enlarged group. In January 2019, Corelio NV, the majority shareholder became Mediahuis Partners NV. Mediahuis Partners NV then held a 50.6% stake in Mediahuis, along with Concentra (32.7%) and VP Exploitatie (16.7%). These 3 shareholders are in turn mainly owned by the Van Puijenbroek family, Belgian Baert family and Mediahuis chairman
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. On 30 April 2019 Mediahuis acquired Independent News & Media for 145.6 million euros, which gave Mediahuis control over the Irish Independent and the Sunday Independent (Ireland), respectively Ireland's top-selling daily and Sunday newspaper, among other assets. In July 2019, Mediahuis were reported to be interested in acquiring
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. In September 2020, Mediahuis acquired the heavily loss-making NDC Mediagroep.


Mediahuis Nederland

Mediahuis Nederlands started as the NV Holdingmaatschappij De Telegraaf and was later coined Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. (TMG). In 2017 it was acquired by Mediahuis. It owns '' De Telegraaf'', the most popular newspaper in the Netherlands, DFT, Telesport, Metro, Autovisie, Privé and Vrouw; regional newspapers including Haarlems Dagblad and Noordhollands Dagblad; digital brands including GeenStijl and
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, and the national radio station Classic FM. In addition, Mediahuis Nederland owns dozens of other brands that focus on local news, entertainment and e-commerce. Via Keesing Media Group, the company publishes international puzzle magazines and digital puzzles. TMG acquired the weblog
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after initially buying an interest and
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, at that time still the most popular social network site in the Netherlands. In 2012, TMG had acquired the free daily newspaper ''
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, operating radio stations
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,
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,
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, Radio 10 and thematic channels (only on Internet). In addition, the television channel TV 538.


Media Assets


Belgium

* '' De Standaard'' * '' Het Nieuwsblad'' * '' Gazet van Antwerpen'' * '' Het Belang van Limburg'' * ''Jobat'' (jobs website) * ''Jet'' (magazine) * ''Gotcha'' (classified magazine) * ''Zimmo'' (classified magazine) * ''Vroom'' (classified magazine) * ''InMemoriam'' * ROB TV, TV Limburg, ATV and TV OOST (Regional TV channels) * Radio Nostalgie (North and South) * Metro (stake) * De Vijver Media (stake) * Flanders Classics (stake)


Ireland

*'' Irish Independent'' *'' Sunday Independent'' *'' Sunday World'' *'' The Herald'' *Regional Irish newspapers


Germany

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Aachener Zeitung ''Aachener Zeitung'' ( Aachen Newspaper, AZ) is a daily newspaper published in Aachen, Germany. It is printed, alongside the daily ''Aachener Nachrichten'' (AN), by Mediahuis in the Rhenish format. History The AZ was founded in 1946 as ''Aach ...
*
Aachener Nachrichten ''Aachener Zeitung'' ( Aachen Newspaper, AZ) is a daily newspaper published in Aachen, Germany. It is printed, alongside the daily ''Aachener Nachrichten'' (AN), by Mediahuis in the Rhenish format. History The AZ was founded in 1946 as ''Aa ...


Netherlands

* De Telegraaf * NRC Handelsblad * NDC mediagroep * Regional Dutch newspapers


See also

* Dichtbij.nl *
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Mediahuis
*{{official website, http://corporate.tmg.nl/en 2013 establishments in Belgium Mass media companies of Belgium Dutch-language television networks Companies based in Antwerp