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  Axel Springer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Axel Springer (May 2, 1912, Altona, Hamburg - September 22, 1985, West Berlin), was a German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG publishing company.
In the late 1960s, Springer was attacked by the leftist student movement for the political opinion pushed forward via Bild and the other Springer media and became a goal of their protest marches and direct actions.
Springer was swift to denounce those who questioned the economic miracle of the fifties and sixties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Axel_Springer   (270 words)

  
 Axel Springer AG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Axel Springer AG is criticized by German leftists and muslims
The Axel Springer AG is the only German publishing house, which refused to publish the advertising campaign of the Left Party in 2005.
The five socio-political preambles that were written by Axel Springer in 1967, amended in 1990 following German reunification and supplemented in 2001 are part of the articles of association of Axel Springer AG.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Axel_Springer_AG   (335 words)

  
 Axel Springer 1st-half profit up 10 pct. - Boston.com
German newspaper publisher Axel Springer AG said Monday its first-half net profit rose by 10 percent, helped by strong growth in advertising revenue.
Springer, which publishes Germany's top-selling Bild daily, reported earnings of 111.4 million euros ($142.1 million) for the January-June period, up from 101.3 million euros a year earlier.
Springer also credited "sustainable cost management" and the improved profitability of new launches in its improved earnings.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/07/31/axel_springer_1st_half_profit_up_10_pct   (270 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Axel Springer's TV deal blocked
German newspaper group Axel Springer's plan to reshape the nation's media landscape with a move into TV is hanging in the balance.
Springer is said to be mulling options, and has threatened to abandon the bid.
Axel Springer chief executive Mathias Doepfner has accused the regulators of being short-sighted and of not understanding the changing environment media companies now have to operate in.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4599444.stm   (408 words)

  
 Axel Springer Group: Overview
Springer is currently the largest newspaper publisher in Germany, with over 180 newspapers and magazines, and has been expanding into eastern and southern Europe.
Springer is also a major book publisher, has seven radio stations and had a major stake in Kirch's television units (SAT.1., Kabel 1 and N24).
Springer came to be characterised as Germany's leading Cold Warrior - swift to denounce those who questioned the economic miracle of the fifties and sixties - and then as something of a dinosaur.
www.ketupa.net /springer.htm   (683 words)

  
 FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Axel Springer abandons plan to sell TV channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Axel Springer, the German newspaper publisher, has abandoned its plans to sell a television channel to save its takeover of a leading broadcaster, in a move that clears the way for it to take legal action over regulators’ handling of the affair.
Springer has refused to give up on the €4.2bn ($5bn) transaction and is considering all options, especially legal ones, which it can only use if it has withdrawn its disposal offer.
Regulators fear Springer’s dominance of the tabloid and TV markets could lead to a duopoly with market leader Bertelsmann, which in turn would entail huge increases in advertising rates and threaten the diversity of media in Germany.
www.ft.com /cms/s/e6340fe0-86ba-11da-8521-0000779e2340.html   (598 words)

  
 WJLA - Axel Springer AG to Buy ProSiebenSat1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
First, Axel Springer — which already holds 12 percent of the shares that are not publicly traded in ProSieben — will buy the other 88 percent from the P7S1 Holding LP consortium led by U.S. billionaire Haim Saban, who created the famed Power Rangers television series.
Springer will also buy the traded preferred shares the consortium holds, to increase its common share stake to 25 percent, paying 2.5 billion euros ($3.1 billion) for the package.
Springer died in 1985 and the company is currently controlled by his widow, Friede Springer.
www.wjla.com /headlines/0805/249524.html   (357 words)

  
 All Headline News - Axel Springer to Buy German TV Company For $3.1 Billion - September 10, 2006
Frankfurt, Germany (AHN) - German publisher Axel Springer AG says Friday it is buying a controlling stake in broadcaster ProSiebenSat1 Media AG, from a US group for $3.1 billion; setting the company up for a duel with Bertelsmann AG.
First Axel Springer, who owns 12 percent of the shares that are not publicly traded in ProSieben, will purchase the other 88 percent from the P7S1 Holding LP comsortium, led by US billionaire Haim Saban.
Springer will also buy the traded preferred shares that the consortium holds, to increase its share stake to 25 percent, paying 2.5 billion euros (US $3.1 billion) for the package.
www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/2246500854   (298 words)

  
 Axel Springer History of the Company
Axel Springer announces his publishing principles in an address to the Hamburg ”Overseas Club“.
Until the mid-seventies attacks are made on the Hamburg publishing building and on Axel Springer´s private houses.
Axel Springer lays the foundation stone of the Berlin headquarters in the presence of Willy Brandt, mayor of Berlin, and the Federal Minister Ernst Lemmer on 25 June 1959.
www.axelspringer.com /englisch/geschich/inhalte/as/lebensla/lebensla.htm   (248 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Axel Springer drops ProSieben bid
Axel Springer, publisher of the best-selling daily newspaper Bild, wanted to buy the TV broadcaster to diversify and strengthen its business.
Axel Springer said it faced "unacceptable risks" after the German anti-trust watchdog rejected the deal.
Axel Springer had argued that the deal would enable ProSieben to launch new services and compete more effectively with Bertelsmann, Germany's largest media company.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/business/4669088.stm   (232 words)

  
 CBS News | Watchdog Blocks Axel Springer Takeover
Springer, which publishes Germany's largest-circulation daily, Bild, announced in August that it had agreed to buy ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Germany's biggest television company, from a U.S. group.
Springer could ask Economy Minister Michael Glos to overrule a ruling by the cartel office.
When the acquisition was announced, Springer's chief executive said the company aimed to mount a challenge to Bertelsmann AG, which owns Stern Magazine and the RTL television channel and has a market share of about 38 percent.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/10/ap/business/mainD8F1T8R84.shtml   (434 words)

  
 CNN.com - Commerz to buy Kirch's Axel stake - April 30, 2002
Commerzbank is leading a group that includes rivals Dresdner Bank, Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale and Friede Springer, the widow of founder Axel, in a deal estimated to be worth about 1.1 billion euros.
The Springer stake is owned through KirchBeteiligungs, which has not been affected by insolvency of KirchMedia.
Axel Springer is Europe's biggest newspaper publisher and owns tabloid paper Bild.
archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/04/30/springer.commerzbank.kirch/index.html   (166 words)

  
 Axel Springer, Saban ink deal for ProSieben
Under the terms of Friday's deal, Saban will stay on as a member of the board at Axel Springer and is expected to head the television division for the group's advisory board.
Springer will buy the entire stake in ProSieben held by Saban's P7S1 Holding, paying €23.37 ($28.88) per share for common shares and €14.10 ($17.43) per share for preference shares.
Springer is controlled by Friede Springer, the 62-year-old widow of company founder Axel Springer.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001010426   (901 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sale of Kirch's Springer stake near - May 10, 2002
The spokesman also said Friede Springer, who heads the Springer family, would increase her stake in the company by 5 percent to 55 percent.
The 40 percent stake in Springer is owned through the holding company KirchBeteiligung.
Springer also publishes the daily newspaper Die Welt as well as the TV guide HoerZu.
archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/05/10/alexspringer.deal/index.html   (324 words)

  
 WJLA - Axel Springer Withdraws Compromise Offer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Springer, the publisher of Germany's largest-circulation daily, Bild, had previously offered to sell the ProSieben television channel once it completed the proposed 3.5 billion euro ($4.2 billion) takeover.
The regulator said in a statement that it accepted the withdrawal of Springer's offer and granted the publisher until Jan. 27 to submit a new one.
The sale of ProSieben would leave Springer with a scaled-down ProSiebenSat.1 with the Sat1 and Kabel1 entertainment channels and the N24 news station.
www.wjla.com /headlines/0106/294505.html   (270 words)

  
 New Axel Springer daily takes on Poland's quality press
German publishing giant Axel Springer has launched a new daily in its latest foray into the Polish market, a bold venture that has sparked a circulation battle with Poland's biggest quality newspaper.
Axel Springer has priced Dziennik at 1.5 zlotys (0.38 euros, 0.46 dollars), around half the cost of its principal rivals, Gazeta Wyborcza and the centre-right Rzeczpospolita.
In 2003 Axel Springer successfully launched the Polish tabloid Fakt, largely modelled on the group's German daily Bild.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=119523   (706 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Axel Springer buys German TV group
German publisher Axel Springer is buying control of ProSiebenSat.1, Germany's biggest commercial broadcaster, for 2.5bn euros (£1.7bn).
Springer already has an 11.8% stake in ProSieben, and will now own 100% of the company's voting shares and 25% of the preferred shares.
Founded in 1946, Springer has grown into a publishing group with over 150 newspapers and magazines in 27 countries.
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1543356,00.html   (402 words)

  
 Axel Springer Verlag (ASV)
Axel Springer is one of Europe's largest media companies, and the dominant newspaper publisher in Germany with a large portfolio of regional and national magazines and papers including the extensive Bild franchise, Die Welt quality newspaper and a group of top-selling TV listings titles.
Springer endured a couple of difficult years as a result of the slump in advertising revenue and the bankruptcy in 2002 of one its main shareholders.
Having struggled back to health by 2005, Springer attempted to acquire Germany's leading commercial TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat1 but the deal was blocked by regulators.
www.mind-advertising.com /de/axelspringer_de.htm   (257 words)

  
 Axel Springer to acquire majority of ProSiebenSat.1 for 2.47 bln eur UPDATE - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
BERLIN (AFX) - Axel Springer AG said it is acquiring a majority stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG from the group of investors led by US media baron Haim Saban in a 2.47 bln eur deal to make television Springer's second strategic pillar.
Springer plans to merge its operations with ProSieben once the deal is approved by regulators, and said it will increase its share capital by issuing an unspecified number of preference shares to finance the purchase.
Springer, which already has a 12 pct stake in ProSieben, has in the past said it is considering expansion in the television market as an option for strategic growth.
www.forbes.com /home/feeds/afx/2005/08/05/afx2174543.html   (648 words)

  
 World Screen - Home
MUNICH, August 5: After months of speculation, German media group Axel Springer has reached a 2.47 billion euros deal to acquire a majority stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media from a consortium led by Haim Saban.
The deal with the Saban-led German Media Partners brings Axel Springer’s stake in the German broadcasting group to 62.5 percent of the total capital and Axel will own all voting rights.
Axel Springer has also announced a voluntary cash tender offer to ProSiebenSat.1 Media shareholders.
www.worldscreen.com /newscurrent.php?filename=axel805.htm   (373 words)

  
 Axel Springer Verlag
Founded in 1946, Axel Springer Verlag is one of Europe’s largest media companies, with administrative headquarters located in Hamburg and Berlin.
In 1998 Axel Springer Verlag and its 12,000 employees generated total sales of DM 4.8 billion.
In addition to publishing a broad spectrum of newspapers, magazines, specialist titles and free sheets (both in Germany and abroad), Axel Springer Verlag owns a number of book publishers and operates its own printing plants and distribution organizations.
www.sovereign-publications.com /aspringer.htm   (166 words)

  
 Press Room - Press Release 4 December 2001
“By adding Axel Springer’s three respected newspapers to our content collection, we will be able to offer a richer and more comprehensive set of German content for our customers,” said Simon Alterman, vice president of content at Factiva.
Established in 1946, Axel Springer is Germany's biggest newspaper publisher and one of the leading international media enterprises.
The core business of Axel Springer AG lies in newspapers, magazines and also digital distribution channels; these are supported by state-of-the-art printing works and efficient marketing organizations.
www.factiva.com /investigative/releases/axelspringer.asp   (581 words)

  
 Axel Springer’s ProSiebenSat.1 Buy Blocked
Axel Springer’s chief executive, Mathias Dopfner, reportedly told
“Axel Springer has been trying to get into TV since the ‘60s because it sees the combination of print and electronic media as trend setting.
Meanwhile, Haim Saban could choose to find another suitor—TF1 is one organization that has expressed interest in ProSiebenSat.1.
www.worldscreen.com /print.php?filename=axel111.htm   (175 words)

  
 Axel Springer to launch Bild-style French daily this fall - Editors Weblog
Axel Springer to launch Bild-style French daily this fall
Publishing giant Axel Springer will launch a new paid-for daily in France this fall modeled after its German tabloid Bild, the most popular newspaper in Europe.
While Axel Springer would not confirm the information Tuesday to Le Monde, the group plans to print 600,000 copies and charge 0,50 euro each, according to a report in Le Parisien.
www.editorsweblog.org /print_newspapers/2006/07/axel_springer_to_launch_bildstyle_french.php   (310 words)

  
 CNN.com - Europe's largest Internet service provider sets up Web venture with Axel Springer - Apr. 4, 2001
T-Online, owned by Deutsche Telekom, will take a 37 percent stake in Springer's Bild.de unit, around which the two companies will develop an entertainment site, the companies said on Wednesday.
"The venture of T-Online and Axel Springer is the basis for a strategic link and further joint activities," the companies said.
The privately held Axel Springer group is majority-owned by the family of the late founder of the same name, and is 40 percent-owned by Germany media company Kirch.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/04/04/axel   (296 words)

  
 ABC News: Axel Springer Offers to Sell TV Station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Axel Springer Offers to Sell TV Station to Gain Regulatory Approval of Takeover
BERLIN Jan 11, 2006 (AP)— German media company Axel Springer AG offered Wednesday to sell off a television channel belonging to the nation's biggest television company ProSiebenSat.1 in order to ease regulators' antitrust concerns.
Springer, publisher of the company's largest newspaper, Bild, said it would sell the ProSieben TV channel once it completes the proposed 3.5 billion euros ($4.2 billion) takeover.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=1494469&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (265 words)

  
 ABC News: Watchdog Blocks Axel Springer Takeover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The headquarters of German publisher Axel Springer AG in Berlin in this Jan 5., 2006 file photo.
Axel Springer AG is reportedly mulling splitting up ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG or selling one of its own newspapers in a bid to gain approval for its 3.5 billion (US$4.23 billion) acquisition of the company, reports said Tuesday, Jan 10, 2006.
FRANKFURT, Germany Jan 10, 2006 (AP)— Germany's media watchdog on Tuesday blocked publisher Axel Springer AG's planned 3.5 billion euro ($4.23 billion) acquisition of television company ProSiebenSat.1.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=1490264&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312>   (425 words)

  
 Axel Springer AG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Das freiwillige öffentliche Übernahmeangebot der Axel Springer AG zum Erwerb aller ausgegebenen Stamm- und Vorzugsaktien der ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG wird nach deutschem Recht und den anwendbaren Wertpapiergesetzen der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika durchgeführt.
The voluntary public takeover offer of Axel Springer AG for the acquisition of all issued common and preference shares of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG will be implemented in accordance with German law and applicable U.S. securities laws.
There is no intent to consummate the offer as a public offer in accordance with the provisions of another jurisdiction.
www.axelspringer-p7s1.de /pre/index.html   (227 words)

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