Verlagsgruppe News Gesellschaft m.b.H. (News Publishing Group) is an Austrian publishing company that publishes fifteen magazines, including ''

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'', two weekly news magazines, and ''News online''. News has over 500 employees and approximately 60% of the magazine advertising market in Austria. Prior to their merger in 2001, leadership in the Austrian magazine market was contested between News and the Kurier Group, which at that time published ''

''. The merger was unsuccessfully challenged by seven Austrian newspapers."Magazinfusion kommt vor EU-Behorde" ''Der Standard'' (Vienna) 13 July 2001 News is controlled by

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, a printing and publishing company with headquarters in

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, who own 56 percent of the stock.

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"Verlagsgruppe NEWS Gesellschaft m.b.H." ''Publicitas Promotion Network''
in English
"NEWS" ''the-latest.news''
in English Publishing companies of Austria {{Austria-company-stub