Berlingske Media is a Danish

Denmark

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 media company that owns a large number of newspaper

Newspaper

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s, in addition to website

Website

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s and national and local radio station

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s.

In 2000-2006, the company had been owned by the Orkla Group

Orkla Group

Orkla Group is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate operating in the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. The company's main divisions are branded consumer goods, aluminium solutions, materials, associates and financial investments.-Operations:...

, a Norwegian conglomerate which purchased 76% of Det Berlingske Officin publishing group' stock for €209-million.

In 2006, Orkla sold its multi-national publishing and media holdings, including Det Berlingske Officin, to the British

United Kingdom

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 company Mecom Group

Mecom Group

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 for €900 million.

The company name was changed name to "Berlingske Media" to reflect its focus on websites.

The main newspaper in the company, Berlingske Tidende

Berlingske Tidende

Berlingske, previously known as Berlingske Tidende , is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen...

is one of the worlds oldest newspapers, having published its first issue on January 3, 1749.

Paid-circulation newspapers

• Berlingske Tidende
  Berlingske Tidende
  Berlingske, previously known as Berlingske Tidende , is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen...
  
  
• B.T.
  B.T. (tabloid)
  B.T. is a Danish tabloid newspaper which offers general news about various subjects such as sports, politics and current affairs.A large, red neon sign displays the B.T. logo at the square Trianglen in Østerbro, a part of Copenhagen....
  
  
• Weekendavisen
  Weekendavisen
  Weekendavisen is a Danish weekly broadsheet newspaper published on Fridays. Its circulation is approximately 60,000 copies, about ten per cent of which cover subscriptions outside Denmark. According to opinion polls, however, the actual number of readers is much higher...
  
  
• Århus Stiftstidende K/S (91.8 %)
• De Bergske Blade (66.67%, publishing a number of regional newspapers in Jutland)
• JydskeVestkysten (50 %)
• Kristeligt Dagblad (22 %)

Free newspapers

• Urban
  Urban (newspaper)
  Urban is a Danish free daily newspaper owned by Det Berlingske Officin. It was launched on September 24, 2001, shortly after the competing free daily MetroXpress . Circulation in second half of 2008 was 196,752....
  
  
• Dato
  Dato (newspaper)
  dato is a discontinued Danish free daily newspaper owned by Det Berlingske Officin. Launched on August 16, 2006, the newspaper is Berlingske's offering in the "newspaper war" initiated by Dagsbrún's Nyhedsavisen. dato was, however, the first of the recent free dailies delivered to people's homes...
  
  
• ErhvervsBladet
• Berlingske Lokalaviser (publishing 31 different local newspapers)

External links

• Berlingske Media website; Ownerships overview
• Ketupa Media Profiles: Norsk Orkla/Det Berlingske Officin; Mecom