UMH group

United Media Holding group

Type	Private
Industry	Media
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Kiev, Ukraine
Key people	Boris Lozhkin, Serhiy Kurchenko
Products	Magazines, internet websites, radio
Number of employees	4400
Website	http://www.umh.com.ua

UMH group (United Media Holding group) is an international multimedia group. It controls the portfolio of over 50 brands with leading positions in Internet, radio and press markets covering news, politics, business, sports, fashion, celebrity and TV niches. The portfolio includes over a dozen own and license media brands, main of them being Forbes Ukraine and Vogue Ukraine (there is a strategic agreement concluded with Conde Nast publishers that allows UMH group develop a number of projects within the territory of Ukraine).

UMH ranks 15 among largest media companies that operate within former soviet republics.

The company’s stock was placed on . UMH group is WAN-IFRA member.

The holding was founded in late 1990s by Boris Lozhkin who remains till year 2014 its president and principal shareholder on the basis of “Telenedelya” (“TV week”) newspaper (has been published since 1994, in 2013 it joined top ten largest printed media brands within ex-Soviet area, is the leader among celebrity niche media in Ukraine and ranks 6 by readership volumes in CIS countries).

1995 through 1998 the company was actively developing in the segment of tabloids and sports publications. Licenses for such famous brands as “Argumenty i Fakty” (“Arguments and facts”) and “Komsomolskaya Pravda” (“Komsomol truth”) were bought and “Football” magazine was launched. In mere six years over a dozen successful media projects appeared in the structure of UMH and growth dynamics helped the company become the major player in Ukrainian media market. In 2000 UMH group became a multimedia structure when first radio station joined the project portfolio. In two more years there was another one and in 2004 radio group already accounted for 4 network stations. Currently there are 7 stations in the group as well as the niche leading channel “Menu TV” purchased in 2008. UMH radio group is one of the two major actors in Ukrainian radio market.