Sanoma Corporation (, , formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher. The company has media business in Finland and an education business in twelve European countries, including Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Italy and Spain. Sanoma Corporation is headquartered in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

. At the end of 2023, Sanoma net sales totalled €1.393 billion and the company had approximately 5,000 employees.

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The story of Sanoma began in 1889 with the establishment of the newspaper '' Päivälehti'' in Finland. SanomaWSOY was formed in 1999 with the merger of Sanoma Corporation, WSOY (''Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö; Werner Söderström Corporation'') and Helsinki Media Company. The group reverted to the name Sanoma Corporation in October 2008. Sanoma operates in twelve European countries. Sanoma shares are listed on

Nasdaq Helsinki Nasdaq Helsinki, formerly known as the Helsinki Stock Exchange (, ), is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland. Since 3 September 2003, it has been part of Nasdaq Nordic (previously called ''OMX''). After the OMX merger, it was referred t ...

. The company consists of two divisions: * Sanoma Learning: educational publishing and services * Sanoma Media Finland: newspaper and magazine publishing, printing, TV, radio, events, and online gaming services. This includes the newspaper that was founded in 1889 as ''Päivälehti''.

Nelonen Media Nelonen Media is a Finnish commercial broadcasting company owned by Sanoma Media Finland, which is a part of Sanoma Sanoma Corporation (, , formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher. The comp ...

, which belongs to the group, has four television channels and several radio channels. In 2020, Sanoma acquired Alma Media's regional news media, the largest of which were ''

Aamulehti ''Aamulehti'' ( Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland. Established in 1881 by Finnish patriots in Tampere, the newspaper aimed to bolster the Finnish language and people's identity d ...

'' and ''

Satakunnan Kansa ''Satakunnan Kansa'' (abbreviated ''SK'', literally translated the "People of Satakunta") is a Finnish language regional newspaper published in Pori, Finland. In 2024, it will merge into '' Satakunta Kansa Länsi-Suomi'', and the long new name ha ...

''. The CEO of Sanoma Media Finland is Pia Kalsta. In October 2020, Sanoma acquired the Spanish educational publisher

Grupo Santillana Grupo Santillana, formerly Santillana Ediciones Generales, is a Spanish publisher founded in 1959 by Jesús de Polanco and Francisco Pérez González. From 2008 and due to the high debts of the group PRISA, Santillana made disinvestments to gui ...

and in 2022 the Italian and German education businesses from Pearson.Sanoma completes the acquisition of Pearson’s local K12 learning content business in Italy and its exam preparation business in Germany, and consequently updates its Outlook for 2022
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