Styria Media Group

{{Short description|Austrian media company}} {{more footnotes needed|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox company | name = Styria Media Group AG | logo = STYRIA-Media-Group-Logo.svg | type = {{Lang|de|Aktiengesellschaft}} | foundation = Graz, Austria (1869) | founder = Alois Karlon | location_city = Graz | location_country = Austria | area_served = Austria, Croatia, Slovenia | industry = Media, publishing | revenue = €411 million (2022) | num_employees = ~3000 (2022) | homepage = {{URL|http://www.styria.com/en/index.php|styria.com}} }} The '''Styria Media Group AG''', often referred to as just '''Styria''', is an Austrian media company founded in 1869 and based in Graz. The company is one of the largest media companies in Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. Styria publishes a number of daily papers and weekly magazines, several news websites, and operates two radio stations and a television channel. They also incorporate seven book publishing companies. The group generated a market turnover of 411 million euros in 2022.

{{As of|2015|post=,}} the Styria Media Group and the Moser Holding Aktiengesellschaft each own 50% of Regionalmedien Austria.<ref name=RMAImpressum>{{cite web|url=http://www.regionalmedien.at/impressum/|publisher=Regionalmedien Austria AG|title=Impressum|access-date=2015-04-14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513011615/https://www.regionalmedien.at/impressum/|archive-date=2015-05-13}}</ref> This company publishes free (advertiser-funded) local newspapers throughout Austria.<ref name=RMAUnternehmen>{{cite web|url=https://www.regionalmedien.at/unternehmen/unternehmen/|publisher=Regionalmedien Austria AG|title=Unternehmen|accessdate=2015-04-12}}</ref> The company's original markets are the Styria and Carinthia regions of Austria, where they publish their flagship daily ''Kleine Zeitung'' and a number of regional weeklies. On a national level, the company publishes Vienna-based daily {{Lang|de|Die Presse}} and the weekly magazine {{Lang|de|Die Furche}}.

In Croatia, Styria is the sole shareholder of the major daily newspaper {{Lang|hr|Večernji list}} and the daily tabloid {{Lang|hr|24sata}}. In March 2008 they also acquired the business daily ''Poslovni dnevnik''.

Around 2015 the company moved into the Styria Media Center in the Jakomini district of Graz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Graz: Styria Media Center feierlich eröffnet|periodical=Kleinezeitung.at|publisher=|url=https://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/landleute/4752864/Graz_Styria-Media-Center-feierlich-eroeffnet|url-status=|format=|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Bernd Melichar|date=2015-06-11|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Aus dem Gemeinderat II - Stadtportal der Landeshauptstadt Graz|website=www.graz.at|publisher=|url=http://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10240080/5715260/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2015-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414010935/http://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10240080/5715260/|archive-date=2015-04-14|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref>

==Publications== ;Newspapers *{{Lang|de|Die Presse}} (Austria) *''Kleine Zeitung'' (Austria) *{{Lang|hr|24sata}} (Croatia) *''Poslovni dnevnik'' (Croatia) *{{Lang|hr|Večernji list}} (Croatia)

* {{Lang|de|Die Furche}} (Austria)

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==External links== *[http://www.styria.com/en/ Styria Media Group AG]

Category:Companies established in 1869 Category:Newspaper companies of Austria Category:Magazine publishing companies Category:Mass media companies of Austria Category:Mass media companies of Croatia Category:Mass media in Montenegro Category:Mass media companies of Slovenia Category:Mass media in Graz Category:Companies based in Graz Category:1869 establishments in Austria