Alma Media

Alma Media

Type	Public – Oyj
Traded as	OMX: ALN1V
Industry	Publishing
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Key people	Kai Telanne, CEO Tuomas Itkonen, CFO
Revenue	M€311.4 (2010)
Operating income	M€43,4 2010)
Website	www.almamedia.fi

Alma Media (OMX: ALN1V) is one of the largest media companies in Finland.

Alma Media is specialized in newspapers, online media and other internet services. Its best known products are Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Kauppalehti, Monster.fi, Etuovi.com and City24. Alma Media employs ca. 2,800 professionals. Net sales in 2010 totalled EUR 311.4 million. The company's share is listed in the Mid Cap segment of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

Business operations

Alma Media has three business areas: Newspapers, Kauppalehti Group and Marketplaces.

The Newspapers business area includes the publishing of the afternoon paper Iltalehti, five regional papers and 29 local and city papers plus their online businesses.

The Kauppalehti Group includes Finland's leading business newspaper Kauppalehti, its online services as well as the information services Balance Consulting and ePortti. Alma 360 asiakasmedia, designing and producing content for marketing communication, and the news agency Baltic News Service (BNS) operating in the Baltic countries also report to this segment.

The Marketplaces business area includes online classified advertisements, supported by printed media as necessary. Services of the Marketplaces segment in Finland are Etuovi.com and Vuokraovi.com (homes), Monster.fi (recruitment), Autotalli.com, (vehicles), Mascus.fi (heavy machinery) and Mikko.fi (online trade and auction site). Services outside Finland are City24, Mascus, Bovision and Objektvision.

Alma Media's printing and distribution business has been organised into a company named Alma Manu Oy on 1 July 2010. Alma Manu brings together Alma Media's three newspaper printing houses in Tampere, Pori and Rovaniemi as well as the newspaper distribution company Aamujakelu Oy operating in Pirkanmaa, Sea Lapland and Satakunta.

History in brief

• Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Kirjapainon Osakeyhtiö (Finnish Literature Society's Printing Company Ltd) starts operating in 1849 and prints the Suometar newspaper.
• Alma’s biggest newspapers are founded around the century: Satakunnan Kansa (1873), Aamulehti (1881), Kauppalehti (1898), Pohjolan Sanomat (1915), Kainuun Sanomat (1917) and Lapin Kansa (1928). Iltalehti was founded in1980.
• Tampereen Kirjapaino Oy and Uusi Suomi Oy are merged in 1988 to become one of Finland's largest newspaper publishers. The new company was later named Aamulehti Corporation.
• Over the years, company expands its business from newspapers to online services, television and radio.
• Alma Media Corporation officially begins operating on 1998.
• A major restructuring took place in Alma Media in 2005. The company divested its broadcasting business and decided to focus on publishing newspapers, business information and online marketplaces. ^[1]
• In December 2011 Alma acquired LMC s.r.o. Czech leading provider of Jobs.cz, Prace.cz, Topjobs.sk jobboards and LMC G2 e-recruitment solution. ^[2]

External links

• Alma Media - Official site

Publications

Newspapers

Kauppalehti Group

Provides business information and services.

• Kauppalehti: Versatile provider of business information operating a multitude of business newspapers and magazines as well as online services.
• Baltic News Service: News agency in the Baltic states with offices in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. BNS also has a business unit offering media monitoring services in the entire Baltic region.
• Alma 360 asiakasmedia: designs and produces content for marketing communication, such as customer magazines, staff magazines, web publications and video content.

Marketplaces

The Marketplaces business area includes online classified advertisements, supported by printed media as necessary.

• Autotalli.com
• Bovision
• City24
• Etuovi.com
• Mascus
• Mikko.fi
• Monster.fi
• Objektvision
• Vuokraovi.com
• Jobs.cz
• Prace.cz
• TopJobs.sk

References