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Article: Axel Springer Verlag AG
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- International Directory of Company Histories
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Axel Springer Verlag AG
Axel-Springer-Platz 1
D-20350 Hamburg
Germany
49 40 347-22884
Fax: 49 40 347-25540
Web site:
http://www.asv.de
Public Company
Incorporated:
1985
Employees:
12,646
Sales:
DM4.14 billion (US$2.9 billion 1995)
Stock Exchanges:
Frankfurt
SICs:
2711 Newspapers; 2721 Periodicals; 2750 Commercial Printing; 2731 Book Publishing; 2741 Miscellaneous Publishing
Over the course of its more than 50 years in business, Axel Springer Verlag AG has evolved from a publisher of local radio transcripts into Europe
’
s largest publisher of newspapers and magazines. By the late 1990s, the company
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s media and communications holdings also included interests in radio; broadcast, ...