DoÄŸan Media Group

Dogan Yayin Holding A.Ş. ( DYH ), outside Turkey also called Dogan Media Group, is the leading media group in Turkey. It publishes newspapers, magazines, books, operates television and radio stations and printers is in the field of new media works. Officers of the group was to the end of 2009 Aydın Doğan, the beginning of 2010 took his daughter Arzuhan Doğan Yalçindag the lead, since January 2012 her sister Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı is chairman of the board, which includes among others the German media entrepreneur Hubert Burda belongs. At the end of 2010, the Doğan Media Group employed 12,144 employees.

Since 2010, the group was negotiating with several foreign investors on a sale of company shares. After a time nearing completion amendment should in future take more than the current 25 to 50 percent of the shares may reach Turkish media companies in foreign ownership.

Dogan Yayin Holding 's claims to be, the largest content provider in Turkey. In October 2011, the Doğan Yayin Holding announced the sale of the TV channel Star TV company that runs Işıl Televizyon Yayıncılık A.Ş. to the Doğuş Yayin Grubu known, the media branch of the conglomerate Doğuş Holding. A purchase price of 327 million U.S. dollars have been given. Given significant tax payment requirement of the Turkish state Doğan had recently sold the high-circulation dailies Milliyet and Vatan for $ 74 million. Purchaser was to consolidated Demirören ve Karacan Grubu belonging Media Group DK Gazetecilik ve Yayıncılık A.Ş.

Company divisions

Which is listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange Group has four Turkish newspapers: Hürriyet, radical, Posta and Fanatik. For this, the first English-language newspaper in Turkey Hurriyet Daily News comes (formerly Turkish Daily News). It operates, among others, the Turkish TV channel Kanal D and along with Turner Broadcasting System Turkish versions of the channels CNN (under the name CNN Türk, since 1999 ) TNT ( since 2008) and Cartoon Network.

Which belongs to the media group Doğan Burda dergi (DBR ), in which the Turkish side cooperates with the German media company Burda is, with 25 titles, a leader in the Turkish magazine market. The joint venture company Doğan Egmont was founded with the Danish Egmont Publishing Group publishes books and magazines for children. Another business is the importation of international print media and sale in Turkey. The group is also active in the sales and Doğan ofset in the printing business.

About Dogan KITAP the Group operates in the book market, claims to have it produced 20 percent of the best-seller in Turkey. The Doğan Music Company is positioned over a licensing agreement with a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG in the international music market. Are distributed books and music through a book and music chain with the name D & R and over the Internet.

Ownership

Current ownership of the Doğan Yayin Holding (June 2013):

• Doğan Sirketler Grubu Holding: 75.59 per cent ( 52.68 per cent of Doğan Holding has Sirketler Grubu controlled by the family of Doğan Holding Adilbey, Aydın Doğan directly to 10.08 percent, 4.40 percent belong to the Doğan family and 32.84 per cent traded over the counter on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. )
• Family Doğan: 2.31 ​​percent
• Adilbey Holding: 0.15 percent
• Free Float: 21.95 percent

The parent company of Dogan Yayin Holding, Dogan Sirketler Grubu Holding is engaged on the core business in the media sector also in other sectors of the economy. For example, it is 54.17 percent (as of end of 2009) is majority- owned by leading in Turkey in the field Mineralölvertrieb oil company Petrol Ofisi, which operates a chain of petrol stations and worked in the oil wholesale. 2006 acquired the Austrian energy group OMV control over 34 per cent, later the proportion was increased to 41.58 percent. In April 2009, the Turkish Ministry of Energy Petrol Ofisi ruled out for a year of all state contracts, as allegedly supplied to the state electricity plant Ambarli fuels would have had a high sulfur content. As factual background of the allegations pressure of the Erdogan government was suspected on Dogan, because the newspaper Hürriyet is the ruling party AKP been critical of. The planned OMV full adoption was deferred in November 2009 due to the conflict. In the second negotiation talks in October 2010, the two companies agreed to a takeover of 54.17 % of the Dogan Group by OMV for 1 billion euros.

Participation of Axel Springer AG

In November 2006, agreed the German Axel Springer AG has a stake of 25 percent in the subsidiary Dogan TV with effect from the beginning of January 2007 - under an agreement as a purchase price reduction clause until 2014 for the case of a sinking enterprise value - and sent two members to the Board of Dogan TV, including Helmut Thoma. Simultaneously, the Doğan Holding Yayin involved with the decision to start the Springer group of Dogan TV in the bidding competition for the German TV group ProSiebenSat.1.

In November 2008, it sold its 5.1 percent stake in Dogan TV to the Doğan Yayin Holding. An agreed also in November 2008 acquisition of direct stakes of Axel Springer in DYH amounting to around 9.1 per cent has been completed. Instead agreed the Springer group a year later, an increase in its stake in Dogan Yayin holding to 29 per cent However, since currently there is a conflict to huge back taxes and Media Concentration in November 2009, between the Dogan Holding and the Turkish media authority RTÜK, Springer put the completion of the share increase to the resolution of any such problems from now. The purchase price for the share increase is not due until 2016, the value clause of Dogan TV has also been extended until 2016. At the same time the number of posted from Springer directors was increased to three (out of ten) and one equipped with veto member of the board of DYH, who heads the operations ordered.

Company Key

The group held in 2006, a market share of 41.6 percent of the Turkish advertising market as a whole, 36.6 percent of the advertising market on television, 42.1 percent of the magazine market and 60.6 percent of the newspaper market. Your daily newspapers reach a total circulation of 5.1 million daily. The turnover in 2006 was 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, EBITDA at around $ 150 million.

European Office

The European subsidiary of Doğan Group is the Doğan Media International GmbH (DMG International) and is responsible for coordinating the activities of the group in Europe. The main branch of the Doğan Media International is located in Mörfelden -Walldorf, near Frankfurt and publishes the European edition belonging to the holding newspaper Hürriyet. According to a study conducted by Enigma GRP in 2007 market study, Hürriyet is read in category " widest readership " in Germany alone of about 564,000 people. The television station group EUROD offers the Turks living in Europe to news, music and entertainment and competition programs, movies as well as series of Turkey and Europe. The Doğan Media International warrants this television station said coordination support.

Journalistic principles

The Doğan Media Group has a comprehensive list of twenty points journalistic principles to which the employee and the company are required. About a pure code of ethics, the principles touching inter alia also specifications regarding the labor law through to control and claim damages that may result from publications.