Styria Medien AG, founded in 1869 by the press association of the (Graz-)Seckau diocese as a printing and publishing house, brought into line in 1938 and rebuilt in 1946; today a media company (since 1997 AG) with a focus on newspapers (majority stake in “Die Presse” and “Die Furche”, “Kleine Zeitung” spun off into a separate company in 1999), newspaper printing, book publishing and trading, and new media; Subsidiaries and holdings in the areas of internet, online services, regional radio and cable TV. The book publisher publishes around 60 new publications every year (biographical series, religion, non-fiction books, scientific books and works on regional topics). Sales in 1998 around 2.7 billion Schilling, around 1400 employees.
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