De Persgroep Nederland

De Persgroep is a media and publishing company from Belgium owning media assets in Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. De Persgroep is owned by the Van Thillo family.

In 1978 the family obtained 60 percent of shares in the Flemish publishing company Hoste. When in 1990 the rest of the shares were acquired, the company’s name was changed to De Persgroep. In 2013 the group’s annual turnover was 901 million euros.

PCM Publishing was created by the merger of two companies: Perscombinatie and Meulenhoff & Co. Perscombinatie (de Volkskrant, Trouw and Het Parool) acquired in 1994, the majority stakes in Meulenhoff & Co. They changed their name to PCM. From that moment became the publication of newspapers and books, the core activity of PCM.

In late 1995 PCM acquired the Nederlandse Dagbladunie (TVNZ and Algemeen Dagblad) and became publisher of four of the five national newspapers, four regional titles and their door-to-door papers in the Randstad. After a brief but intense adventure with a foreign investment company, in 2003 Het Parool sold to the Belgian media company De Persgroep NV. In 2005, the Algemeen Dagblad and the four regional newspapers were housed in AD New Media BV, in which PCM had an economic interest of 63%.

In July 2009, De Persgroep acquired a majority stake in PCM Publishing, forming the subsidiary De Persgroep Nederland, A number of transactions were connected to the main acquisition.

PCM sold in July 2009, the house-to-house papers of PCM Local Media to Wegener. Shortly after acquired PCM the stakes of Wegener (37%) in AD New Media BV. The acquisition included also the printing house of Wegener in The Hague. PCM sold the NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next for 70 million euros to Egeria, as well as the PCM Algemene Boeken (b.o. Meulenhoff & Co). As a result, became Persgroep Netherlands the publisher of Algemeen Dagblad, de Volkskrant, Trouw and Het Parool.

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