''L'Echo'' is a Belgian daily newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics. It is published by

Mediafin Mediafin is a Belgian media group A media conglomerate, media company, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion picture ...

and mainly distributed in

Wallonia Wallonia ( ; ; or ), officially the Walloon Region ( ; ), is one of the three communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, regions of Belgium—along with Flemish Region, Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the c ...

and Brussels. It is the French-language counterpart of the Flemish daily ''

De Tijd ''De Tijd'' (; ) is a Belgian daily newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics. It is published by Mediafin and mainly distributed in Flanders and Brussels. It is the Flemish counterpart of the French-language daily '' L'Echo'', wh ...

'', which is its sister paper.

History and profile

''L'Echo'' originated as ''L'Écho de la bourse de Bruxelles'' () which was first published on 22 May 1881. It was renamed ''L'Écho de la Bourse'' () in 1889 and retained the name until 1990 when the paper adopted its current title. It is owned by

which is also the owner of the Flemish business daily ''De Tijd''. Both papers offer financial and economic news. ''L'Echo'' is headquartered in Brussels. In March 2012 it began to be published in

Berliner format Berliner is a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about . The Berliner format, or "midi", is slightly taller and marginally wider than the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid/Compact (newspaper), compact format, and is both narrower ...

Circulation

''L'Echo'' sold 260,000 copies in 1990. The paper had a circulation of 28,765 copies and a market share of 4.5% in 2002. The paper had a 18,736 copies in the second half of 2012.

References

External links

Official web site
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