Founded in 1869, Styria Medien AG is one of the leading Media Groups in Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. With 3.300 employees altogether, the concern generated a market turnover of 486 million Euros in 2008. Styria incorporates along with others, 9 daily and 17 weekly newspapers, 15 magazines, 15 customer magazines (Styria Multi Media Corporate), more than 40 magazines in Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia (Adria Media), 2 supplements, 15 online services, 2 radio and 3 TV programmes and 9 book publishers.

The Styria Medien AG sees itself as a content company and regards production, selection, valuation, development and interpretation of content for different media products, as its main business. Styria Medien AG manages these contents in the form of texts, graphics, pictures and sound.

Furthermore the Styria Medien AG dedicates much entrepreneurial attention to all those areas with a large significance to the success of the main areas of competence –with independence also in mind - such as newspaper print, logistic and information technology.

The regions of Styria and Carinthia are traditional principal markets, above all due to the unique success story of the “Kleine Zeitung” since its founding in 1904 but also due to the long-standing involvement of “Styria” in the regional weekly newspaper area and its leading role in the areas of private radio and private television. In Austria, Styria Medien AG is strongly established and represented through the newspaper names “Die Presse”, “WirtschaftsBlatt” and the “Furche”, by the magazine group “Styria Multi Media” and the fifty percent share in the weekly newspaper association “Regionalmedien (Regional Media) Austria”, by various book publishers as well as having shares in “tele” and “SAT 1 Österreich”.

In Croatia Styria Medien AG is the sole shareholder of the traditional daily newspaper “Veèernji list” and has launched the most successful newspaper in the country with the daily newspaper “24 sata”. Styria´s portfolio also includes the largest TV magazine in the country “TV tjedan”, the search portal www.njuskalo.hr and a majority share in Croatia´s first business daily newspaper “Poslovni dnevnik”.

Styria Medien AG plays an important role in Slovenia above all with the dynamic and innovative “Zurnal” Group”. Styria plays an important role in Slovenia, mainly with the dynamic and innovative “®urnal” Group (free weekly newspaper “Zurnal”, free daily newspaper “®urnal24”, news platform “zurnal24.si”) as well as having shares in the newspaper publishers Dnevnik.

Since March 2008, the Styria Business Group is also represented in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region with a majority share in the weekly newspaper „Il Friuli“.