The Netherlands

The Group’s Dutch division, comprising the Wegener and Limburg businesses, is the largest publisher of regional daily newspapers and free door-to-door newspapers in the Netherlands, with approximately 60 per cent of the regional circulation market and approximately 20 per cent of the total Dutch newspaper market.

The division also operates more than 35 websites and eight printing plants which print both Group and third-party publications. In a country with a population of over 16 million, the division’s publications have a readership of more than 6.6 million every week and its online operations attract more than 8 million unique users every month.

Translated extract of annual report 2007