Mediengruppe Madsack

Mediengruppe Madsack is a media group from Hanover founded by August Madsack. It emerged from Hannoverscher Anzeiger A. Madsack & Co., which was founded in 1892.
The Madsack Group is responsible for several hundred publications, making it one of the largest media groups in Germany. According to its own figures, it reaches around 2.5 million readers every day. The portfolio includes not only print products of all kinds, but also investments in radio and television stations as well as shares in companies outside the media sector, such as property companies and investment companies. In 2024, the cartel office approved the takeover of Madsack by the DDV Mediengruppe in Saxony. The Group is thus further expanding its concentration. Among other things, Madsack now owns all relevant newspapers in Dresden. Madsack also owns Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), a network of around 60 small and medium-sized regional newspapers that produce their own content and are supplied with content centrally by the RND editorial team.
Madsack's largest single shareholder is ddvg (Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft), which is 100 per cent owned by the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany). This ownership structure is repeatedly the subject of discussions about the influence of political parties on media companies.
In 2023, Sylvia Madsack set up a foundation to support journalistic projects.
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| Business Form | Commercial / For-profit |
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| Legal Form | Limited partnership with a GmbH as the personally liable general partner (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, in short: GmbH & Co. KG) |
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| Other Media Businesses | Television Broadcasting
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| Founding Year | 1892 Founded as „Hannoverscher Anzeiger A. Madsack & Co.“. |
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| Employees | 4,000 |
| Contact | Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack GmbH & Co. KG August-Madsack-Str. 1 30559 Hannover Germany info@madsack.de 0511 / 518 0 www.madsack.de |
| Tax / ID Number | DE115660862 |
| Revenue | € 780 Mio. / USD 819 Mio. (2022) |
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| Operating Profit | € 108 208 104.28 / USD 113 618 509.49 (2022) |
| Advertising (in % of total funding) | € 132.8 Mio / USD 139.44 Mio. (2022) |
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