Mecom Group

The Mecom Group Plc is a media group with headquarters in London. She is involved among other things, media houses in the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Poland and Ukraine.

Mecom was founded in 2000 by David Montgomery. Since 2005, the company is listed on the Alternative Investment Market ( AIM) in London. The group included between October 2005 and January 2009, including the Berliner Verlag and the Hamburger Morgenpost. In Poland, Mecom has the Rzeczpospolita. In Norway Mecom heard the group Orkla Media, which she had bought in 2006 for 970 million euros.

On 13 January 2009, the Cologne publisher M. DuMont announced that he would take over the activities of the Mecom Group in Germany, including the Berliner Zeitung and the Hamburger Morgenpost .. Mecom scored according to own data for the entire publications a retail price of 152 million euros.