Egmont Group: History

This chronology is indicative only. Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline.

1878 Egmont Petersen's mother pawns saucepans, young Egmont opens printery in Copenhagen and subsequently establishes Gutenberghus company

1904 buys ailing women´s weekly Damernes Blad, relaunched as Hjemmet family magazine

1906 Ole Olsen establishes Nordisk Film

1912 establishes Skandinavisk Reklamebureau advertising agency (later Gutenberghus Reklamebureau)

1914 Egmont Petersen becomes Royal Printer, dies

1920 company becomes charitable foundation

1933 buys Dansk Reklame Bureau film and theatre advertising agency

1946 Gutenberghus Reklame Film cinema advertising group established

1946 launches Danish women´s weekly ALT for damerne

1951 Ehapa publishing company established in Germany to publish German Disney comics and Readers Digest

1961 buys Danish book publisher Aschehoug

1987 Gutenberghus Reklame Film renamed Dansk Reklame Film

1989 sells Gutenberghus Reklamebureau

1991 takes 33.5% stake in Norway's TV2

1992 Gutenberghus renamed Egmont

1992 merges with Nordisk Film