2018: Purchase of the General-Anzeiger Bonn
The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe takes over the General-Anzeiger Bonn. By purchasing this renowned newspaper, the media group is strengthening its activities in the core market of North Rhine-Westphalia.
2017: Expansion of translation business through the acquisition of Sajan / USA
AMPLEXOR, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, has successfully completed the acquisition of the US-based translation and localisation specialist Sajan.
2016: DVV Media Group takes over Road Transport Media
DVV Media Group GmbH acquires 100 percent of the shares in Road Transport Media Ltd in Sutton, London. With its print, web, and event portfolio, the company is a leading provider of specialist media and services for the road freight transport and commercial vehicle sector in Great Britain.
2016: Expansion of activities in the segment Advertising Papers in Treves and the Lusatia
The media group strengthens its market position in its regional home markets by starting own activities in the advertising paper segment, true to the motto “local hero”.
2015: Translation business expansion
The Mediengruppe’s translation service provider, euroscript, expands its position considerably through various acquisitions and is also gaining a foothold in the USA. This is underscored by its rebranding: euroscript is now called Amplexor.
2015: Merger of Immowelt and Immonet
The two real estate portals unite and thus become no. 2 nationwide, significantly strengthening the Mediengruppe’s position in the real estate segment.
2014: Increasing involvement with digital classified advertising
The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe is strengthening its involvement in digital classified advertising. The markt.gruppe is amongst others majority shareholder of the Immowelt AG.
2014: Activities in the Netherlands, in Poland and Slovakia
Rheinische Post Mediengruppe is selling all of its media activities in the Netherlands, in Poland and Slovakia.
2013: Daily App of the Rheinische Post
The media group starts a Daily App of the Rheinische Post. It offers readers all the strengths of the newspaper while adding new multimedia elements. The content is optimized for display on the iPad and is available after 9:00 p.m. on the night before publication. Readers can select up to three local editions within the app. In addition to the six regular editions from Monday through Saturday, RP Plus, the award-winning digital Sunday magazine, is integrated into the Daily App.
2013: Activities in Czech Republic sold
Rheinische Post Mediengruppe is selling all of its activities in the Czech Republic. A contract on the sale of all shares in Mafra, a.s. as well as all Czech subsidiaries is signed with the Agrofert group today. Agrofert is the fourth largest Czech enterprise. The deal is executed on October 10th 2013. Buyer and seller have agreed not to disclose any further information concerning the details of this transaction.
2013: Shares in ProServ-Medien GmbH
The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe acquired further 50% of the shares of ProServ-Medien Service GmbH (ProServ) from the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. ProServ chiefly holds an interest in markt.gruppe, the leading online advertising network. Chief components of markt.gruppe’s portfolio include immowelt.de, one of the largest real estate portals in Germany, as well as the portals stellenanzeigen.de (employment market/job portal), motoso.de (motor vehicles) and markt.de (classifieds).
2012: Rheinische Post Mediengruppe and Saarbrücker Zeitungsgruppe are growing together
The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe has acquired the majority interest in the Saarbrücker Zeitungsgruppe from the Gesellschaft für staatsbürgerliche Bildung Saar mbH (GSB). In addition to the Saarbrücker Zeitung, this also includes the publications Trierischer Volksfreund, Pfälzischer Merkur in Zweibrücken and Lausitzer Rundschau in Cottbus as well as a majority share in Saarländische Wochenblatt Verlagsgesellschaft. The Group is also highly active when it comes to digital content. The quickly expanding Luxembourg-based subsidiary AMPLEXOR, a globally leading provider of translation and documentation services, is also of great importance.
With a total turnover of around 800 million euros, the merger gives rises to one of the biggest regional publishing houses in Germany. Supported by strong regional brands, the Group is set to continuously expand its printing and digital business operations. At the same time, growth opportunities are opening up in existing and new business fields, both nationally and internationally.
2012: The new umbrella brand: the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe
The umbrella brand ‘Rheinische Post Mediengruppe’ bundles companies and departments from the business divisions Print, Digital Media, Radio and TV, Logistics, Property and Market Research. The newspaper publisher has developed into a broadly diversified media group that publishes a large number of printed and online media, offers various services and has international involvements. The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe employs around 4700 people at home and abroad.
2011: The newspaper for the iPad: RP Plus
The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe brings out a digital Sunday newspaper as the seventh edition of the week. The editorial office prepares special contents for the iPad app ‘RP plus’: news and service texts, graphics, 360-degree photographs and picture series.
2011: Acquisition of the Wuppertaler Rundschau
In 2010 the media group acquires the advertising paper publisher of the Wuppertaler Rundschau and all shares in the Rheinisch-Bergisch print shop at the Wuppertal location. The publishing house also owns the radio station Radio Wuppertal; the media group additionally takes over logistics and administration.
2010: New printing machines in Düsseldorf
The media group modernises its printing equipment once again. A printing house with state-of-the-art rotary plants is erected at a cost of 40 million Euros. Using a waterless technique the ‘Cortina’ provides for particular brilliance. It prints more than 40,000 newspaper copies per hour. Altogether 7.6 billion newspaper pages come together annually at the printing centre in Düsseldorf. In addition to the newspaper, other products such as magazines can be printed in high quality and in new formats.