Metro International

Metro is the title of a free newspaper Metro International SA Luxembourg. The newspaper was originally a subsidiary of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group. Today it is just like the MTG controlled by the investment company Kinnevik the Swedish family Stenbeck.

The first metro- edition was distributed in 1995 in the Stockholm Tunnelbana. Meanwhile appear 70 editions in 93 cities in 21 countries in Europe, North and South America and Asia. According to metro website, there are 18.5 million daily and 35 million weekly readers. The newspaper is published Monday through Friday; in Stockholm there is a Friday special edition with Weekend tips and in Santiago de Chile there are also Saturdays. On the cover of the Swedish edition is noted that it is the largest circulation daily newspaper in Sweden at metro. The Dutch edition in 2007 was the highest circulation of all four national free newspaper and the second- largest circulation daily newspaper in the country.

The newspaper is published in tabloid format. In some countries it is called Metro Xpress (Denmark), Metropol ( Poland), Metrorama (Greece ) or Publimetro (Chile).

Metropol

In German-speaking Switzerland, the newspaper was published on 31 January 2000 to 13 February 2002 under the title Metropol. It was issued by the subsidiary Metro Publication ( Switzerland ) AG. Metropol launched simultaneously with the rival newspaper 20 minutes and that resulting from the " day sheet of Zurich " Zurich Express, but was now out of the market.

Metropolitan presented news in brief form. Especially were the weekly columns of Christopher Mörgeli and Tips Gastro - by Sabine Bölsterli. Metropolitan and 20 minutes were similar and looked at each other and often from. One big difference was that metropolitan sat Letters and columns, for 20 minutes such headings stopped soon, but it maintains a successful web portal. In addition, metropolitan spoke mostly to a slightly older and more educated audience. Metropol was distributed in newspaper boxes in the core cities and agglomerations according to the self-service principle.