Schibsted

Schibsted Media Group is a Norwegian media group with operations in 29 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange.

Schibsted's present activities are related to media products in the field of newspapers, online classifieds, publishing, multimedia and mobile services. Schibsted Media Group is currently organized into Online Classifieds, media houses and Schibsted Growth. Rolv Erik Ryssdal became CEO of Schibsted on 1 June 2009. CFO is Trond Berger. EVP Communications & CSR is Lena K Samuelsson.

Schibsted's largest shareholder is Blommenholm industrier (26.1%). Other owners include a number of American banks and financial services companies, such as J. P. Morgan, Northern Trust and The Bank of New York Mellon.

History

In 1839 Christian Michael Schibsted founded the publishing company Schibsteds Forlag and in 1860 he started publishing Christiania Adresseblad, from 1885 known as Aftenposten. In 1966 Schibsted acquired VG.