Naspers

Naspers is a South African media group with headquarters in Cape Town. The company is in the print media (newspapers, magazines, books), television ( pay TV) and Internet ( as a provider and portal operators ) active. Among other things, includes a 30 % - stake in the Brazilian company Grupo Abril and the British firm Tradus to Naspers. Outside of South Africa maintains Naspers in these areas further investments in countries such as Brazil, China, Greece, India, Netherlands, Russia and Thailand.

In the Afrikaans newspapers and magazines, the subsidiary Media24 has a de facto monopoly. All major Afrikaans newspapers are published there, these are in detail Rapport, The Son, Die Burger, Beeld and Volksblad. There is also an interest in the general newspaper in Namibia. Currently, over 100 titles are issued with a total circulation of several million copies.

The subsidiary Myriad International Holdings ( MIH Group ) maintains inter alia, the pay- TV channel M -Net, which operates 15 channels. Here is KykNet with a de facto monopoly in Afrikaans area. With M- Web Naspers is also one of the largest Internet service provider in South Africa. About Via Africa Naspers is involved in several publishing houses, including a majority stake in the scientific publishing Van Schaik.

The shares of Naspers is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

History

Naspers was founded in 1915 as Nasionale people and has its roots in Afrikaner nationalism. The publisher served as editor of the newspaper was founded in the same year Die Burger, in 1916 he founded the magazine Huisgenoot. The above-mentioned newspapers were publishing ( with the exception of The Son, which was only founded in 2003) loyal during the apartheid era government supporters; the first editor of Die Burger, Daniel François Malan, was later. than Premier for architects of apartheid After 1989 came on the end of this era, the bond to the National Party began to loosen as a multimedia group was also from the former publishing increasingly. Since the 1990s, Naspers is also increasingly involved in foreign companies, so 30 % of the Brazilian media group Grupo Abril acquired in 2006, followed in 2007 by the purchase of the British Internet auction house Tradus. Although the Afrikaans media have remained a mainstay in the print sector, the English-language media of the group are now synonymous in this area and become dominant in the field of television and the Internet, which Naspers has left its origins.

Naspers owns approximately 34% of the Chinese Internet company Tencent. In April 2010, Tencent acquired for U.S. $ 300 million shares in the Russian Internet company Digital Sky Technologies (DST ), which was renamed in September 2010 in Mail.ru Group. This had acquired in 2009 for U.S. $ 300 million 3.5% of Facebook shares. About this Naspers Investments indirectly holds 0.12 % stake in Facebook.