Group Ouest-France

The Groupe SIPA Ouest-France was constituted around the regional newspaper Ouest-France , first French daily newspaper since 1975. It gathers today 4 other regional newspapers, a multi-media company, forty hebdomaires local, a powerful press group free, a house of edition of book, an advertizing agency, a local television, a local radio, a control of advertizing display, etc

A group diversified in the media

Regional press and set of themes

Flagship of the group, the daily newspaper Ouest-France involves in its wake four other regional newspapers, whose paid total diffusion is of 1.000.000 of specimens (2005). He is necessary to add to it forty local weekly magazines by the means of his subsidiary company Publihebdos, whose total diffusion borders the 350.000 specimens. The Breton press group publishes also various magazines like the monthly magazine Voiles and Voiliers .

The extension of the group in the Daily regional newspaper was done through a series of repurchase:

February 1990: the Norman daily newspaper the Press of the English Channel (Cherbourg)
December 2005, 3 daily newspapers of the Western pole of the Socpresse: Mail of the West (Angers), Press-Ocean (Nantes) and free Maine (Mans), gathered today in the company Newspapers of the West . The transaction reached 76 million euros, according to the trade unions.

The group is also minority shareholder of a catholic Polish daily newspaper, Tygodnik Powszechny, whose seat is with Cracow.

Free press

With that a majority stake in the important press group free Spir Communication is added which publishes the newspapers of classifieds Top Advertisements , Logic Immo as well as the free daily newspaper of information 20 minutes for of which it holds 50% of the capital of the French edition.

Multi-media

Internet sites of the daily newspaper are in full growth (+ 50% of frequentation in 2006). Their turnovers rises to 7,3 million euros in 2006 (5,8 in 2005). It is published by a dedicated subsidiary company: Western Multi-media France which develops with the national plan the networks of sites Maville.com through collaborations with other regional press groups and in particular Nice-Morning.
Ouest-France Multimédia exists since 1986, subsidiary created at the time of the invention of the Minitel, under the name of Multi-media TC. From 4 paid at its origin, Ouest-France Multimédia gathers today more than 60 people, and realizes in 2006 close to CA 8M€ The totality of the market products are marketed by Precom Multimédia, subsidiary of Précom and OuestFrance Multimédia.

Other activities

The Ouest-France group still has in its bosom a house of edition of book (Édilarge), an advertizing agency (Précom), a company of posting, a radio station present in the big cities of the West (Hit west) and of the local television channels of which Nantes 7, Angers 7 and a participation in TV Rennes 35.

Turnover

The turnover of the group is of 1,12 billion euros (1,002 in 2005). Its benefit is of 1,7 million euros (33,8 in 2005).

Organization

The Ouest-France group exists legally through the company Sipa (Investment company and of participations), held itself to 99,97% by an association of the law type of 1901, created in April 1990, Association for the support of the principles of the humanistic democracy, which Jacques Duquesne chairs.

Its chairman is François-Governed Hutin. He is assisted since summer 2006 of Louis Echelard, managing director of the Sipa company, financial arm of the group.

External bonds

Official site of the daily newspaper
Site of the Western subsidiary company Multi-media France
Official site of the editions

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