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antecedents
1888 incorporation of Berner Tagblatt
beginnings
1893 German newspaper publisher Wilhelm Girardet,
Hugo Isenburg, Fritz Furrer and former Neue Zürcher
Zeitung (NZZ) editor Fritz
Walz form partnership as Wilhelm Girardet & Co
1893 Wilhelm Girardet & Co launches Tages-Anzeiger
1899 Wilhelm Girardet & Co renamed Girardet, Walz
& Co under direction of Wilhelm Girardet Jr.
1904 launches Zeitbilder as weekly supplement
to Tages-Anzeiger
1905 Otto Coninx marries Wilhelm Girardet's daughter Berta
1912 limited partnership Girardet, Walz & Co. converted
into corporation
1918 death of Wilhelm Girardet Sr
1923 retirement of Fritz Walz
1926 company becomes a purely Swiss stock corporation
under control of Otto Coninx-Girardet
1927 establishment of Regina-Verlag AG and acquisition
of Das Schweizer Heim magazine (est 1904)
1928 establishment of Finanz und Wirtschaft (FuW)
Tages-Anzeiger
1933 Girardet, Walz & Co. AG renamed Tages-Anzeiger
für Stadt und Kanton Zürich AG
1933 acquires Schäubli’s illustrierte Zeitung
für die Schweizer Familie magazine and founds
Schweizer Familie AG.
1956 Otto Coninx-Girardet Sr dies, replaced by son Otto
Coninx-Wettstein
1961 Alfred Isler acquires Finanz und Wirtschaft
from Hans Herrmann
1963 weekly supplement Zeitbilder replaced by weekly TA7
1967 launches Tages-Anzeiger international edition
1970 acquires Finanz und Wirtschaft from Gerhart
Isler
1970
Tages-Anzeiger Magazin launched as replacement
for weekly supplement TA7
1971 Schweizer Heim amalgamated with Schweizer
Familie
1978 weekly supplement Wochenprogramm introduced
1979 Berner Nachrichten merges with Berner
Tagblatt as Berner Zeitung
1981 Tages-Anzeiger acquires monthly Spick "clever
school kids magazine"
1981 acquires annabelle magazine from Jean-Frey
Group
1982 acquires 70% of Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich
and title rights to free Züri Leu (discontinued)
1982 acquires women's magazine femina from Conzett
+ Huber (German-language edition amalgamated with annabelle
as annabelle-femina)
1983 Wochenprogramm is replaced by Züritip
magazine
1983 establishment of Edition C book publishing house
1986 launch of weekly Stellen-Anzeiger
1987 launch of SonntagsZeitung (85% by Tages-Anzeiger
AG, 15% by Berner Zeitung AG)
1987 Tages-Anzeiger acquires Conzett & Huber printing
group (inc culture magazine du)
1988 acquires printer Waser Druck AG
1988 Tages-Anzeiger-Magazin renamed Das Magazin
1988 establishment of Werd Verlag publishing house
1989 acquisition of majority stake in the Bremgartner
Bezirks Anzeiger and launch of Bezirks-Anzeiger Dietikon
1989 buys stake in Zurich monthly magazine Bonus
1989 acquisition of minority stake in Metex AG (inc Schlosser
Film AG and Condor Production AG)
1989 acquisition of majority stake in Radiotele AG, agent
for radio and TV advertising
1990 acquires 49% stake in Berner Zeitung, main
subsidiary of Espace Media Groupe
1990 acquires 30% of Verlag Finanz und Wirtschaft AG (Finanz
und Wirtschaft)
1991 acquires majority stake in Anzeiger von Uster
(Eugen Weilenmann AG)
1993 Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und Kanton Zürich
AG becomes Tamedia AG
1993 Conzett + Huber AG and the Alfred Walter AG, Schlieren,
merge as Conzett + Walter AG (50% stake held by Tamedia)
1993 Tamedia buys share in RTL Fernseh
Schweiz AG
1994 acquires a 50% stake of Presse Publicité Rep.
SA from HandelsZeitung Publishing
1994 acquires one-third of TeleZüri (private regional
tv station in Zurich) and withdraws from RTL Fernseh Schweiz
after government rejects license application
1994 launches PCtip in partnership with IDG
1995 purchases remainder of Zurich monthly magazine Bonus
1995 sells Bremgartner Bezirks-Anzeiger to Kasimir
Meyer AG (publisher of Wohler Anzeiger)
1995 reduces share of Radiotele AG to 35%
1995 launches news magazine Facts
1995 launches Ernst weekly newspaper for young
adults
1996 establishes SMD Schweizer Medien Databank in partnership
with Ringier and the Swiss national
broadcaster SRG
1996 becomes minority stockholder of Anzeiger von Uster
AG
1996 sells 50% stake in Conzett + Walter AG to Conzett
management
1996 closes Zurich city magazine Bonus
1996 acquires remainder of PCtipp from IDG
1997 forms PressWeb AG (operator of SwissClick internet
portal) with Basler Mediengruppe, Edipresse
AG and Publicitas SA
1997 launches Alpha employment supplement
1997 television program magazine TVplus merged
Ringier's TV-Extra as TVtäglich
1998 Tamedia acquires women's magazine Orella
from Vogt-Schild/Habegger, becomes annabelle création
1998 founds TV3 AG jointly with Luxembourg-based Scandinavian
Broadcasting System SA (SBS) and
applies to Swiss Federal Communications Agency for license
1998 acquires 25% of Zurich-based broadcaster Radio Zürisee
1999 Condor Films' AG feature films and tv arm sold to
C-Films AG
1999 Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich becomes Zürich
Express
1999 Tamedia founds Winner Market AG (online ad sites
with Job, Immo, Car, Auction and Partner Winner AG)
1999 first broadcasts by TV3
1999 Tamedia sells its 35% stake in Radiotele to Mediatransfer
Holding AG
1999 buys Ringier's stake in local tv channel Telezüri
(50% of capital and 37.5% of votes)
2000 IPO of Tamedia
2000 Tamedia acquires remaining 70% of Verlag Finanz und
Wirtschaft AG
2001 acquires majority interest in book and magazine distributor
BD Bücherdienst AG
2001 buys 100% of Belcom Holding AG, TeleZüri AG,
Belcom AG and Takeoff-Communications AG from Roger Schawinski
2001 sells 26.7% interest in Radio Zürisee AG
2001 closes TV3
2002 buys Radio Basilisk for 23.75m Swiss francs
2002 launch of Express commuters' newspaper,
replacing ZürichExpress
2003 buys 49.5% of 20 Minuten AG Switzerland (20 Minuten
editions in Berne, Zurich, Basle) from Schibsted
2003 closure of Express
2003 relaunch of Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich
by Tamedia and Neue Zürcher Zeitung
2003 sells cultural magazine du to based Niggli
Verlag
2003 sells interest in Spick to Sailer-Verlag
2003 sells 72% stake in BD Bücherdienst AG to Stuttgarter
Verlagskontor SVK GmbH and Diogenes Verlag AG, Zürich
2003 sells Waser AG to Meier Waser Druck AG (joint venture
of Tamedia and Meier + Cie. AG, Schaffhausen)
2005 buys remaining 50.5% of 20 Minuten AG Switzerland
2005 acquires 20% of Ziegler Druck- und Verlags AG
2005 sells Werd Verlag to Bodan AG
2005 sells 10% stakein Anzeiger von Uster to majority
shareholder Zürcher Oberland Medien AG
2005 sells 70% stake of Condor Communications AG
2005 buys Publigroupe's Die Vorstadt (est 1957)
2005 acquires acquires Huber & Co. AG (Thurgauer
Zeitung)
2007 acquires further 25% of Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich
from NZZ subsidiary Freie Presse Holding
2007 closure of Uster Nachrichten (est 1980)
2007 acquires 20% of tilllate Schweiz AG
2007 merges with Espace Media Groupe (inc regional TV
station TeleBärn and Zurich radio station Capital
FM)
2007 launches Luxembourg commuter newspaper L’essentiel
as joint venture with Editpress of Luxembourg
2007 sells Buchverlag Huber to Orell Füssli Verlag
AG
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