Roularta Group

Overview

The Roularta group of Belgium has newspaper, magazine, book publishing, printing, music, broadcast, retail, events and other interests. It has expanded outside the local market into Northern and Southern Europe.

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The group

Roularta Media Group (RMG) is Belgium's largest media conglomerate. It centres around the De Zondag and De Weekbode newspapers. It has general and academic book and magazine publishing interests within Belgium: key publications are the Knack and Trends magazines. It has a 50% stake in Flemish television station VTM and other radio and tv broadcasting investments. It owns around a third of commercial printing group Mercator, competing with Sanoma WSOY among others,and substantial CD/DVD duplication interests. It also organises events and conferences.

Roularta subsidiaries and partnerships are found in Portugal, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Norway. The most significant is its stake in Portugal's Impresa group - founded by Abril associate and former prime-minister Francisco Balsemão - which owns Expresso, Telenovelas, Visão, A Capital and other newspapers and magazines along with the dominant stake in the SIC commercial television station.

An indication of Roularta's history is here.

Studies

There is no substantial English-language study of the Roularta group.