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The Lambrakis Press Group S.A. () was a
Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
media company. Since 1957, it was controlled by
Christos Lambrakis Christos Dimitriou Lambrakis (; 24 February 1934 – 21 December 2009) was the owner of Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), one of the largest newspaper groups in Greece, and arguably the most influential. Biography Lambrakis was born in Athens, the son ...
and played a dominant role in Greek publishing and Greek politics, especially through its flagship newspapers, ''
To Vima ''To Vima'' () is a Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed la ...
'' and ''
Ta Nea ''Ta Nea'' (; Translation: ''The News'') is a daily newspaper published in Athens. It was owned by Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), which also published the newspaper ''To Vima''. The assets of DOL were acquired in 2017 by Alter Ego Media S.A. The ...
''. The group also owned the news portal In.gr, the radio station Vima Fm 99.5 and the magazines MarieClaire, Cosmopolitan and Vita. In July 2017, a Greek first-instance court confirmed that the B' group of assets of Lambrakis Press Group would be acquired by Alter Ego Mass Media S.A., a company including the media assets of Greek businessman
Evangelos Marinakis Evangelos "Vangelis" Marinakis (Ευάγγελος (Βαγγέλης) Μαρινάκης), born 30 July 1967) is a Greek businessman and investor, the principal shareholder of a number of companies operating in the shipping, Media (communicatio ...
. The court's judgement for the transfer of the ownership of B' group of assets of DOL to Alter Ego followed the latter's success as the highest bidder in an auction process held earlier in 2017. However, on 11 July 2019, the Athens first-instance court declared DOL to be in a state of bankruptcy.


Management

The company and the Group were managed by a board of directors, with Evangelos Marinakis serving as President of the Board.www.dol.gr


References

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External links


Dolnet.gr
(Company publications website)
Lambrakis Press S.A.
(Official company website) Newspaper companies of Greece Publishing companies established in 1922