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Statement by Bertelsmann AG on speculations about a change in chairmanship of the Gruner + Jahr supervisory board

Guetersloh (ots) - As of November 1, 2000, Gerd Schulte-Hillen was appointed to the Gruner + Jahr supervisory board for a period of five years, and appointed its chairman. In March 2002, as part of the discussion at the time concerning a possible IPO by Bertelsmann AG, Gerd Schulte-Hillen offered to ...

Bertelsmann FY '02 Results Improve In Difficult Economic Times

Berlin (ots) - * Operating businesses strengthened against market trend * Improved performance in all divisions * Operating EBITA up by Euro 363m to Euro 936m * Operating Return on Sales of 5.1 percent * Net income high at nearly Euro 1bn * Financial debt below Euro 3bn, despite high investments * Cash Flow increased to Euro 1.1bn from Euro 294m In 2002 Bertelsmann went against the ...

Bertelsmann increases shareholding in RTL Group Middelhoff: central role of TV as a future business strengthened - Bertelsmann acquires Pearson's shareholding in RTL Group

Gütersloh (ots) - Bertelsmann is strengthening its television business as an integral part of its corporate strategy: the international media company has entered into an agreement to increase its current majority holding of 67 percent in the television, radio and TV production group RTL Group by buying 22 ...

Pixelpark and Lycos Europe reassigned / B2B venture Pixelpark moves to Bertelsmann's Arvato division - Jürgen Richter to chair Lycos Europe and Pixelpark supervisory boards

Gütersloh (ots) - The media company Bertelsmann is transferring ist 60.3 percent share in the Pixelpark AG multimedia agency from DirectGroup to the international media service provider Arvato on January 1, 2002. Jürgen Richter, CEO of the BertelsmannSpringer specialist-publishing group, is being tapped to ...

Bertelsmann Capital Ventures pushes networking between European groups in promoting start-ups

Munich (ots) - Corporate Venture Capital Roundtable in Munich with international attendance The heads of corporate venture-capital units of leading companies throughout Europe are having a high-powered get-together to compare notes across industries, on Thursday in Munich. The talks are ...

Terrorist attacks in the US trigger wave of concern and support at Bertelsmann

Berlin (ots) - Joint fund drive by Bertelsmann AG, Gruner + Jahr and RTL Group generates overwhelming response - Spontaneous gestures of solidarity throughout the company - BMG star Whitney Houston helps out with CD single The terrorist attacks of September 11 triggered dismay and a wave of concern and support all over the world - including at ...

First phase of the "PC 4 All" campaign a success

Berlin (ots) - 50,000 Bertelsmann employees have already received their free Internet PCs - "planet B" Internet portal provides information, entertainment and tutorials in five languages Over the past few months, 50,000 free personal computers with Internet access were shipped to Bertelsmann employees all over the world as part of the "PC 4 All" campaign. Initiated by the Bertelsmann Executive Board, the ...

An overview of the key financial figures

Berlin (ots) - The international media company Bertelsmann achieved revenues of 20.04bn EUR in Fiscal Year 2000/01 (ended June 30, 2001). At 3.5bn EUR above the previous year's turnover (16.5bn EUR), this translates to a 21 percent increase. This growth is attributable to the first-time full-year consolidation of RTL Group (1.4bn EUR), as well as to acquisitions (1.4bn EUR) and exchange-rate effects (0.7bn EUR). ...