BNET Industries
Market Cap:$2.0B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.0B
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Established by the publisher of the same name in 1946, Axel Springer is today Germany?s biggest newspaper publishing house and third-largest magazine publisher. With over 170 newspapers and magazines in 33 countries, 9,733 employees, a consolidated turnover of 2,376m EUR, an annual net profit of 291m EUR and an EBITA* of 374m EUR, Axel Springer is Germanys most creative and profitable publishing house and also one of the leading international media enterprises**. Its strategic objectives are market leadership in the German-language core business, internationalization, and digitization of the core business.
Number of Employees 10,166
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing: 336413
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Media giant loses appetite for Turkey
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RTL Looks to New Sales Streams as Viewers Change Habits
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Axel Springer's earnings rose in third quarter
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Axel Springer Wants Newspaper-Google Paid Content Partnership
PaidContent
- 2009-12-07
This militant paid content rhetoric is spreading: spurred on by Rupert Murdoch’s repeated threats to charge online users to read his companies’ content, German newspaper and magazine business Axel Springer is right behind him.But instead of throwing up a simple paywall, the Bild publisher wants publishers to work together...
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Q1 2009 Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-05-01
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions. Our first question will come from the line of Howard Rubel of Jefferies. Howard Rubel - Jefferies & Co. Thank you. Good morning, gentlemen. Jeff Turner Good morning, Howard. Rick Schmidt Good morning, Howard. Howard Rubel - Jefferies & Co. I want...
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-02-05
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Robert Spingarn with Credit Suisse. Please proceed. Robert Spingarn - Credit Suisse Good morning everyone. Rick Schmidt Good morning. Jeffrey Turner Hi Rob. Robert Spingarn - Credit Suisse Rick, you just talked about the capitalized development in...
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc Q3 2008 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-10-29
Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. And your first question is from the line of Robert Stallard from Macquarie. Please proceed. Robert Stallard - Macquarie Research Equities Good morning. Jeff Turner - President and Chief Executive Officer Good morning. Rick Schmidt - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Hi Rob. Rick...
Private postal PIN Group 'could go bankrupt': German press
- 2007-12-08
BERLIN AFP — The PIN Group, a private postal services company which will announce layoffs of more than 1,000 of its 9,000 employees, could go bankrupt. Axel Springer, Europe's biggest newspaper publisher and 65 percent owner of the group, envisages "stopping PIN payments, if necessary," reported Der Spiegel, citing sources...
Axel Springer planning multimedia offensive in 2007
- 2007-03-07
BERLIN AFP — German newspaper publisher Axel Springer is looking to invest heavily in its Internet services this year in a move that could put the brakes on earnings growth, chairman Mathias Doepfner said on Wednesday. After achieving record earnings for the third year in a row in 2006,...
A PUBLISHER'S VIEW
- 2007-01-01
Axel Springer's Head of Central Purchasing discusses the magazine papers sector THOSEWHO have been working in this industry for 25 years or longer will recall that in the old days there was only one SC-grade of paper - the so-called B-material - available in either 60 or 65...
London Top Of The Pops At Hlr
- 2004-05-31
After weeks and weeks of examination of its assets by potential buyers, Hollinger International Inc. said on Thursday that it would "focus the strategic process on a potential sale of assets in the United Kingdom" and that its U.S. properties -- lead by the Chicago Sun-Times...
Springer set to pull out of race for Daily Telegraph
- 2004-05-27
FRANKFURT AFP ? German newspaper publisher Axel Springer has pulled out of the race to buy the British Daily Telegraph newspaper because it is not prepared to pay the asking price, industry sources revealed. Axel Springer was not immediately available to comment on the information. Springer, which publishes...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Mathias Dopfner | CEO |
| Steffen Naumann | CFO & COO |
| Andreas Wiele | Intl Affairs Division Head |
| Diana Grigoriev | Executive, Investor Relations |
| Jacques Schwiekart | Head, Controlling |
| Jans Meuffelmann | Head, Books Division |
| Brian M. Powers | Director |
| Allen R. Thorpe | Investor |
| Blake Kleinman | Investor |
| Patrick Healy | Investor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Giuseppe Vita | Chairman |
| Rudolf Knepper | Deputy Chairman |
| Friede Springer | Board of Directors |
| Gerhard Cromme | Board of Directors |
| Klaus Krone | Board of Directors |
| Michael Lewis | Board of Directors |
| Michael Otto | Board of Directors |
| Oliver Heine | Board of Directors |
| Wolf Lepenies | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | CEO | Current |
| Time Warner Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | CFO & COO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Intl Affairs Division Head | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Executive, Investor Relations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Head, Controlling | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Head, Books Division | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | CEO | Current |
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | Managing Director | Current |
| Axel Springer AG | Director | Current |
| ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG | Director | Current |
| Publishing and Broadcasting Limited | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Publishing and Broadcasting Limited | Managing Director | Former |
| James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. | Partner | Former |
| Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited | Director | Former |
| Mid Ocean Limited | Investor | Former |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Investor | Former |
| ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG | Investor | Former |
| Axel Springer AG | Investor | Former |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Chairman | Former |
| Publishing and Broadcasting Limited | Executive Chairman | Former |
| Valassis Communications, Inc. | Chairman | Former |
| Yale University | graduate | Former |
| University of Virginia School of Law | graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Thyssen Krupp, Inc. | Supervisory Board Chairman | Current |
| Siemens AG | Supervisory Board Chairman | Current |
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Axel Springer AG | Supervisory Board | Current |
| BNP Paribas SA | Board of Directors | Current |
| Allianz SE | Supervisory Board | Current |
| Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA | Member | Current |
| Harvard Law School | Law Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Springer AG | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | Managing Director | Current |
| Council on Foreign Relations | Term Member | Current |
| Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd | Director | Current |
| Mitchell International | Director | Current |
| Vertafore, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Emdeon Business Services | Director | Current |
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| LPL Financial Services | Board of Directors | Current |
| Gartmore Investment Management | Director | Current |
| ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG | Investor | Current |
| Axel Springer AG | Investor | Current |
| Bain & Company | Manager | Former |
| Council on Foreign Relations | Term Member | Former |
| Bain & Company | Consultant | Former |
| Stanford University | graduate | Former |
| Harvard Business School | graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | Principal | Current |
| Software Solutions Partners Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| SSP | Board of Directors | Current |
| Gartmore Investment Management | Director | Current |
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | Director | Current |
| Axel Springer AG | Investor | Current |
| ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG | Investor | Current |
| Morgan Stanley | Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings Department | Former |
| Harvard College | graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hellman & Friedman LLC | Managing Director | Current |
| ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG | Director | Current |
| NASDAQ Trader | Board of Directors | Current |
| Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd | Board of Directors | Current |
| Gartmore Investment Management | Board of Directors | Current |
| DoubleClick Inc. | Director | Current |
| Axel Springer AG | Investor | Current |
| Young & Rubicam Inc. | Investor | Current |
| PowerBar Inc. | Investor | Current |
| James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. | NA | Former |
| Digitas | Director | Former |
| NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Harvard College | graduate | Former |
| Harvard Business School | graduate | Former |
| Volume | 450,054 |
| Shares Outstanding | 104.8M |
| Market Cap | 2.0B |
| Year High | 20.50 |
| Year Low | 8.030 |
| Earnings Per Share | 1.15 |
| P/E Ratio | 17.2174 |
| Dividend | 0.00 |
| Yield | 0.00 |
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