De Persgroep

De Persgroep is a media company from Belgium owned by the Van Thillo family. In 1978 the family obtained 60 percent of shares in the Flemish oriented publishing company Hoste. When in 1990 the rest of the shares were acquired, the company’s name was changed to De Persgroep. In 2013 the group’s annual turnover was 901 million euros.

History

PCM Publishing

PCM Publishing was created by the merger of two companies: Perscombinatie and Meulenhoff & Co. Perscombinatie (de Volkskrant, Trouw and Het Parool) acquired in 1994, the majority stakes in Meulenhoff & Co. They changed their name to PCM. From that moment became the publication of newspapers and books, the core activity of PCM.

In late 1995 PCM acquired the Nederlandse Dagbladunie (TVNZ and Algemeen Dagblad) and became publisher of four of the five national newspapers, four regional titles and their door-to-door papers in the Randstad. After a brief but intense adventure with a foreign investment company, in 2003 Het Parool sold to the Belgian media company De Persgroep NV. In 2005, the Algemeen Dagblad and the four regional newspapers were housed in AD New Media BV, in which PCM had an economic interest of 63%.