Mecom Group

Mecom Group

Mecom Group plc

Type	Public (LSE: MEC)
Industry	Publishing
Founded	2000
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Stephen Davidson (Executive chairman)
Revenue	£982.8 million (2007)
Operating income	£(8.0) million (2007)
Net income	£(23.8) million (2007)
Website	www.mecom.com

Mecom Group plc (LSE: MEC) is a newspaper publishing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until 22 December 2008, when it became one of three media companies to fall out of the index.^[1]

Contents

• 1 History
  • 1.1 Growth through acquisition
• 2 Operations
• 3 References
• 4 External links

History

The company was founded in 2000 by David Montgomery, a former CEO of the Mirror Group and former editor of The Sun, Daily Mirror, News of the World and Today.^[2]

Mecom was first listed on the Alternative Investment Market in 2005.^[3]

In 2008, Mecom was admitted to the main list of the London Stock Exchange.^[4]

Growth through acquisition

• 2005: In conjunction with the American media private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the company acquired Berliner Verlag, publisher of the Berliner Zeitung and the Berliner Kurier.^[5]
• 2006: Mecom bought Germany's oldest newspaper, the Hamburger Morgenpost,^[6] and the Dutch Media Groep Limburg.^[7]
• 2006: Mecom acquired Orkla Media, a Norwegian Group which includes Edda Media, Berlingske Officin and Rzeczpospolita.^[8]
• 2007: The company bought a controlling stake in the Dutch publishing group Wegener.^[9]

Operations

In 2010, half the revenue and three-quarters of the profit comes from the Dutch Wegener group. Mecom is considered no more than a holding company with more debts (370 mil.) than stock value (320 mil.). ^[10]

The Company owned around 300 titles and has had substantial operations in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Poland.^[11] However, in 2009, Mecom sold all their newspapers in Germany to M. DuMont Schauberg and large parts of their newspapers in Norway.

References

1. ^ Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press and Mecom crash out of FTSE 250
2. ^ FT.com Profile: Mecom
3. ^ Brokers cut Mecom's pre-tax profit forecast
4. ^ UK's Mecom expects to list on the Main Market in mid-April
5. ^ Brook, Stephen (2005, October 25). "Montgomery concludes German publisher deal". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/oct/25/pressandpublishing.business. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
6. ^ Hamburger Mogenpost deal confirmed
7. ^ Montgomery buys Dutch double
8. ^ Montgomery buys into Norwegian Media Company
9. ^ Former Mirror editor to buy Dutch publisher
10. ^ http://www.gelderlander.nl/algemeen/dgeconomie/7409667/Wegenerlont-smeult-richting-kruitvat.ece
11. ^ Mecom Group Companies

External links

• Official site

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