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overview
holdings
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
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antecedents
1831
Johann Rudolf Ringier founds book printers in Zofingen
and publishes Zofinger Wochenblatt
1902 Ringier merges with Francke & Co. to form
the United Printing & Lithographic Works Ringier
1902 buys Schweizerische Allgemeine Volkszeitung
beginnings
1907 Paul August Ringier splits from partners, forms Ringier
& Co.
1911 launches Schweizerische Allgemeine Volkszeitung
(SAVZ)
1911 launches Schweizer Illustriert Zeitung (SIZ)
1914 launches first rotogravure press in Europe capable
of printing text and pictures in single process
1921 launches L'Illustré
1922 launches Ringier's Unterhaltungsblätter
1924 founds Ringier & Co. Verlagsanstalt GmbH in Germany
1924 launches Illustrierte Zeitung (IZ) in Germany
1925 launches Sie+Er in Switzerland
1928 sells Illustrierte Zeitung to Berlin-based
Hackebeil-Verlag
1930 launches Blatt für alle in Switzerland
1930 launches Frauen- und Modenzeitung
1933 launches Der Radiohörer
1933 launches Schweizer Radio-Illustrierte
1934 launches Schweizerische Illustrierte Radio-Zeitung
1935 combines Blatt für alle and Frauen-
und Modezeitung
1946 launches Pour tous
1954 buys stake in Wiesbaden-based Otto Beyer Verlag
1956 buys stake in Munich-based Weltbild-Verlag
1959 buys Frankfurt-based international magazine distributor
International Presse Import-Export GmbH
1959 establishes German editorial office in Frankfurt
1973 buys printer C.J.Bucher AG in Lucerne
1973 establishes Ringier Buchverlag
offshore expansion
1981 buys Munich-based publisher Heering
1981 buys German publisher Zuerl
1984 forms Ringier Print US Inc
1985 buys US printer W.F. Hall from Mobil for US$225m
and forms joint venture with US printer W.A. Krueger (later
acquired by Ringier)
1986 uses satellite technology to print European edition
of Gannett's USA Today
1986 sells German subsidiary Internationale Presse Import
& Export GmbH
1987 launches and closes cultural magazine Emois
1987 forms Times Ringier Hongkong as joint venture with
TPL of Singapore
1989 launches Cash business magazine
1990 launches Profit business magazine in Czechoslovakia
1991 buys majority share in Zürcher Druck & Verlag
AG, publisher of Zuger Nachrichten
1993 Ringier America closes book-printing works in
New Berlin (Wisconsin) and sells two magazine printing
works in Pontiac (Illinois) and Senatobia (Mississippi)
1993 launches Cash in Prague, Bratislava, Bucharest,
Sofia and Warsaw
1995 Ringier buys Betty Bossi publishing house from Unilever
1995 buys Prvni novinova spolecnost distribution business
in Czech Republic
1996 sells Ringier America to World Color Press (later
acquired by Quebecor) for US$415m
1996 closes operations in Bulgaria and Poland
1996 establishes SMD Schweizer Medien Databank in partnership
with Tamedia and the Swiss national
broadcaster SRG
1996 merges Luzerner Zeitung with Luzerner Neuste
Nachrichten
1998 establishes Adligenswil and Zofingen print centres
as autonomous companies (Ringier Print Adligenswil AG
and Ringier Print Zofingen AG)
1998 establishes Trade Publishing Limited in China
1998 Ringier Hungary buys Nemzeti Sport paper
1998 launches prepress unit in Hanoi
1999 launch of Dimanche.ch, Sunday paper in French-speaking
Switzerland
1999 sells stake in local tv channel Telezüri to Tamedia
2000 takes stake in Asia Inflight Ltd to 90% (formerly
51%)
2000 founds Ringier Contract Publishing in Hong Kong
2000 takes minority shareholding in Communicate Ltd.,
Hong Kong
2000 takes minority shareholding in Modernbooks.com in
Macao and Hiroad Ltd in Beijing
2000 establishes joint venture online job market Human
Line and Scout24
2000 sells 90% of Good News to Deutsche Entertainment
AG
in Europe
2000 buys Hungarian publisher Magyar Hirlap, becoming
publisher of 2nd largest popular newspaper Mai Nap,
quality newspaper Magyar Hirlap and Budapest printworks
2001 buys Zurich print prepress company Specter
2001 amalgamates Hungarian popular newspapers Blikk
and Mai Nap as Mai Blikk
2001 buys remaining 50% of Times-Ringier in Hong Kong
2001 buys Winterthur printworks and associated prepress
company ColorServ from Basler Mediengruppe
2001 Le Monde buys Sandoz Family
Foundation's 20% stake in Geneva daily Le Temps
2002 announces agreement - later abandoned - to buy Jean
Frey publishing group (inc Die Weltwoche, Bilanz and
Beobachter) from Basler Media Group (BMG)
2003 Dimanche.ch closed
2003 Ringier buys TV Revue magazine in Czech
Republic from Bauer
2003 takes 41% stake in Le Temps (41% held by
Edipresse, 5% by Le Monde)
2004 buys Gruner + Jahr publishing
holdings in Romania, Slovakia and Czech Republic
2006 launches Compact free daily in Bucharest
2007 closes Cash business weekly in Switzerland
2007 sells TV program magazines in Switzerland to Axel
Springer
2007 sells TV program magazines in Romania, Slovakia and
Czech Republic to Bauer Verlagsgruppe
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