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De Persgroep Publishing België

De Persgroep Publishing (dPP) was established on 1 January 2007 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of De Persgroep. In turn, De Persgroep Publishing is the parent company of the Eco Print Center and owns a 33.3% stake in Vacature.

DPP is involved in newspapers, magazines and new media, including several market leaders such as Het Laatste Nieuws, Dag Allemaal, Goed Gevoel and HLN.be.

Open letter

The figures
‘I won’t beat about the bush: 2012 was a difficult year.
The operating result dropped by 17%. Despite this we can still regard the
year as “reasonably OK” if one takes into account the difficult market
conditions. With a slight decrease of 0.3% our reader market remained
fairly stable. The main impact was in the advertising market. Although
advertising revenues grew by 5% for digital, revenue for print declined
by 8%. The TV magazines continue to be difficult: sales of Dag Allemaal
and TV Familie dropped by 6% and 10% respectively. Unfortunately, we
have had to stop DMuze, the second Saturday magazine of De Morgen
due to a lack of advertising revenue, but fortunately, we have not lost
any readers as a result of this.’

Looking back
‘We are evolving from a publisher into a multimedia
organisation. Our digital publishing activities are therefore no longer
combined in de Persgroep Digital and we have organised all publishing
activities by country because, after all, Belgium and the Netherlands
each have their own characteristics and challenges. We are no longer
focussing on the medium but on the brand in all of its manifestations
– whether it be print, digital or mobile. We are endeavouring to ready
ourselves for an uncertain situation in the TV magazine market by offering
more content-related added value. Finally, we once again organised
the excellent Advertiser’s Summit event during which we bring together
our advertisers in order to gain inspiration, contacts and ideas.’

Looking ahead
‘The most important issue is how we address the
declining advertising market. For 2013 we expect a stagnation but with
growing turnover in digital. We also want to further strengthen our
multimedia publishing and give our subscribers more for the same
money - more information, richer content, opportunities and tickets.
In addition, we are aiming to maintain control of costs and to operate
in the most efficient way. However, we will not be cutting back on our
journalists; on the contrary. We will be investing in their talents and
competencies with lectures, courses and debates from Campus De Persgroep
because we believe in the power of good journalism.’

Rudy Bertels
General Manager de Persgroep Publishing

Key figures

Key figures 2012

With a slight decrease of 0.3% our reader market remained fairly stable.

We are no longer focussing on the medium but on the brand in all of its manifestations.

2013: further strengthen our multimedia publishing and give our subscribers more for
the same money.

Direction

Rudy Bertels, Chief Operations Officer
Piet Vroman, Chief Financial Officer
Hans De Graef, HRM Director
Luc Verbist, Chief Information Officer
Koen Verwee, Director Nieuwsmedia
Bart De Proost, Operations Director
Wim Maes, Technical Director
Yves De Smet, Editor in chief DM
Wim Verhoeven and Margot Moeseke, Editors in chief HLN
Ilse Beyers, Editor in chief Dag Allemaal

Subsidiaries

Eco Print Center

Printing Tomorrow

The Eco Print Center (EPC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of de Persgroep Publishing.

Eco Print Center is a web offset printing company mainly concentrates on daily newspaper production. Every night, newspapers De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws are printed for parent company De Persgroep. The printing presses use a unique, innovative and environmentally friendly printing process known as dry offset printing, 'waterless printing'.

Eco Print Center was the first printing company in the world to print newspapers and magazines on these waterless offset presses. EPC markets itself with the baseline ‘Printing tomorrow’, in the conviction that offering high quality, in an environmentally friendly way, is the way of the future.

Besides overnight newspaper production, several other products are printed for its own publishing house, such as weekend sections and all kinds of supplements.

EPC is also printing more and more commercial products for third parties, such as free local newspapers, members’ magazines, political material, leaflets, catalogues, brochures and magazines.

In 2009, Eco Print Center joined the IWPA (International Waterless Printing Association), whose goal is to promote the benefits of waterless technology to policymakers, purchasing organisations and anyone who wants to promote environmentally friendly printing anywhere in the world.

In its own country, in 2010, EPC was awarded the East Flanders environmental charter for the second year running for its ongoing care for the environment.

For more info go to www.epc-nv.be

Vacature

About Vacature

For its readers and visitors to its website, Vacature is a constant source of top-quality career information and vacancies. Vacature is constantly looking for the best way to bring jobseekers and companies into contact with each other for recruitment and personal development. Through its four aspects (Print, Online, Events and Databases), Vacature constantly meets the needs of new men/women with talent. Vacature also offers a multimedia platform befitting its successful leading role.

For more info go to www.vacature.com