Czech News Center a.s. (previously known as Ringier Axel Springer CZ a.s.) is one of the largest media houses in the

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Overview

The company publishes several

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s (

Blesk ''Blesk'' is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Prague, the Czech Republic. Its name translates as ''lightning''. History and profile ''Blesk'' was first published on 14 April 1991. In 1992, it launched a weekly edition published on Sundays ...

, Aha! and

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), many printed

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

s, online magazines, web projects, applications and run the services of a virtual operator and printing works. The sole owner of the company is Czech Media Invest a.s., which is indirectly owned by

Daniel Křetínský Daniel Křetínský (, born 9 July 1975) is a Czech billionaire businessman and lawyer, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and 94% owner of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH), the largest energy group in Central Europe, co-owner an ...

and Patrik Tkáč. The

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is the Czech Print Center a. s., with operations in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

and

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four riv ...

. CNC also has a 27% share in the largest Czech company for print distribution PNS, a. s.

Company management

As of 1 February, 2020, the management of the company consists of: * CEO — Libuše Šmuclerová * Director of Central Production and Distribution — Libor Berka * Director of

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

and other commercial activities — Jaroslav Sodomka *Director of

digital media Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...

— Petr Fryš *

CFO The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...

— Tomáš Stránský *

Advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers. It is typically used to promote a ...

director — David Šaroch

Commercials

Academy of Journalism

The Academy of

Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (profes ...

and

New Media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...

is a common project of Czech News Center a.s. and PB - Higher Vocational and Secondary School of Management. Its main service is dedicated to

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and practice in the field of modern journalism.

BLESKmobil

BLESKmobil is the first and largest domestic virtual mobile operator. It was launched in November 2012. Its service include advantageous prepaid calls and

SMS Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...

. At present, BLESKmobil is the strongest virtual operator on the Czech market with more than 350,000 activated

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BLESK wallet

The BLESK wallet project was launched in 2014. It works on the same basis as a prepaid mobile SIM card. It is possible to top it up with cash at Sazka's terminals, or on the ''bleskpenezenka.cz''

website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google Search, Google, Facebook, Amaz ...

with any

payment card Payment cards are part of a payment system issued by financial institutions, such as a bank, to a customer that enables its owner (the cardholder) to access the funds in the customer's designated bank accounts, or through a credit account and ...

issued in the Czech Republic and

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

BLESK energy

The BLESK energy is a supplier of

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and

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described ...

. The project was started in 2014. Each new client receives an additional bonus upon registration — the value of 2 years of savings for energy supply, paid in advance.

References

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External links

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