Ekspress Grupp, AS

Country: Estonia

Region: Europe

Price: 195 EUR

Description:

AS Ekspress Grupp is the largest publishing company in Estonia. The main fields of activities of the Ekspress Grupp and its subsidiaries include online media, publishing newspapers and magazines, book sales, printing services and information services in phone directories, information hotlines and online.

Ekspress Group concentrated its activities in 2007 to 5 key segments: online media, periodicals, printing, book sales and information services. In 2007, the growth drivers of the Group’s sales revenue in absolute terms were primarily the publishing of newspapers and magazines.

The purchase of Delfi in the summer of 2007 can be mentioned as the best example of expansion of the business activities. As a result of that transaction, Ekspress Group became the largest company acting in the field of online media in the Baltic States.

An important milestone for Ekspress Group was the initial public offering of its shares and listing of the company on the Tallinn Stock Exchange. The offering was more than six times oversubscribed. April 5th 2007 was the first trading day of Ekspress Group shares on the Tallinn Stock Exchange.