The publishing house Axel Springer created by Axel Springer 1946 is of Germany largest newspaper publisher and shifted among other things the picture and the world.

The seat of the enterprise is Berlin with further centers in Hamburg and Munich.

Owner conditions, business situation, strategic adjustment

Shareholder structure

The 34 million shares (nominal value 3.00 "€) of the company are acted at the Frankfurt stock exchange under the WKN 550135. "€ the share reached a maximum value of 153,50 in the year 2000, it followed a stock split in the relationship 1:10. In the year 2005 the share quotation between 90 and 100 euro moves.

50 % (plus 10 shares) of the portions become of the Axel Springer society for journalism GmbH & CO. held. At this are involved peace Springer to 90 % as well as Ariane and Axel Sven Springer to 5 % each. Peace Springer holds besides directly 10 % shares and thus altogether, thus the majority of the voters shares controls 55.00003 %.

Further the LLC holds Hellman & Friedman 19.4 % of the shares. 9,8 % belong to the corporation, and 10.8 % are in strewing possession. ,

Chairman of the executive committee is Dr. Mathias chairman of the supervisory board Dr. Giuseppe Vita. Individual groups of newspapers are assigned own publishing trade leaders.

Participation

see also: Participation of the Axel Springer AG

The core business of the AG represents still the publishing house of daily papers and magazines. Here above all the citizens of Berlin are and Hamburg local newspapers (B.Z., citizen of Berlin morning mail and Hamburg evening papers) considerable beside the supraregional picture and the world.

Beside the shifts the AG the television time writings picture week, radio clock, TVNeu and TV digital. Also within this range editorships were folded up, since the publishing house expected synergies.

It possesses further own printering and is involved in the press wholesale. In the last years participation in ons-line service was acquired.

Business situation and employment figure

For the financial year 2005 the company registered a "historical result record" The conversion went around 10 millions "€ easily back on 2,39 billion "€; Reason were the paging of the low pressure range into an Ko-enterprise operated with Bertelsmann and Gruner + year. The yearly surplus rose however to 230,7 millions "€ - corresponds to an increase of over 56 per cent! The Ebita (profit before interest, taxes, writings-off) grew easily on 338.3 million euro, the Ebita net yield amounted to 14.1 per cent. Per share are to be paid 1.70 "€; in the previous year were still 1.45 "€.

On the shareholder meeting on 27 April 2005 in Berlin beside PICTURE praised the citizens of Berlin morning mail and the world on Sunday as a newspaper winner of the past financial year.

The conversion in the financial year 2004 amounted to approximately 2.40 billion "€, compound from conversions from the selling (1.17 billion "€), the indicator business (0.95 billion "€) and remaining conversions (0.29 billion "€). The company gains thus approximately half of its conversions with the selling of newspapers and magazines.

The employment figure stagnated in the year 2005 further with somewhat more than 10,000 established ones. To the assumption of office before chief executive still was the number about 14.000 persons employed.

Strategic adjustment

Springer AG has in the opinion of chief executive only two options for further growth: an intensified commitment within the TV-range or the internationalization of the print business. After the failure of the (see below; Springer holds further scarcely 12 per cent of the television's group) wants Springer abroad to now expand; in addition the range Internet (digitization of the print offer) is to be opened substantial. Still 2006 are to appear the 29. international expenditure of car picture in Denmark, in Russia the respected expenditure of computer picture. In Poland fact is to reach the supraregional daily paper Dziennik ("daily paper") the mark of 150,000 sales copies after the success of the boulevard sheet. In on-line sector the appearance of the daily paper world is to be optimized and to "the prominent realigns and service-oriented web page "to be developed. Besides E-Commerce and Gaming (Internet plays - platforms) are to generate further turnover portions. Co-operation with the Postzusteller pin Group is to reach a market share of 10 per cent to 2010; after the end of the letter monopoly 2007 the joint venture is to become the number two after the German post office.

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