Hanza Media, Croatia’s leading domestically owned national-scale newspaper publisher and the company behind the daily Jutarnji list, the regional daily Slobodna Dalmacija, the sports daily Sportske novosti and the women’s weekly Gloria, reported revenue of €39.1 million for 2025, up 2.2% on 2024, but profit slipped 8% to €434,000. That is a net margin of roughly 1.1% on a business…
Delfi AS, the Latvian operating arm of the Tallinn-listed Ekspress Grupp, reported a sharp jump in net profit for 2025, from €0.59 million to €1.78 million. Almost all of that increase came from a single transaction: the sale, in August 2025, of Delfi’s 25.48% stake in a Latvian fintech called SIA Altero. The buyer was a…
Dnevnik d.d., the Ljubljana-based publisher of Slovenia’s daily newspaper Dnevnik and the country’s most-read weekly Nedeljski dnevnik, spent 2024 reorganising itself into a holding-and-operating structure: the journalism, the journalists, the brands and the websites were all transferred to a new wholly owned subsidiary, Dnevnik Mediji, d.o.o., while the original company kept the real estate and the financial portfolio. What…
Petit Press, a.s., the Bratislava-based Slovak publisher of the national daily SME, the regional Korzár, the English-language Slovak Spectator, the MY regional weekly network and the country’s most-read news website sme.sk, reported in its financial year ended 31 December 2025 net turnover of EUR 20.36 million and a profit after tax of EUR 809,537, down from EUR 952,723 the previous year….
Ekspress Grupp had a steady 2025 by its own modest standards: revenue grew, digital subscriptions rose, and the company remained profitable. But the headline numbers mask a year of significant structural moves: a forced sale of a news portal, a leadership transition at the top, and an increasing reliance on non-journalism revenue streams to sustain…
Agora had a better 2025 than it has had in several years, though the improvement came with a cost. Group revenue reached PLN 1.61 billion (approximately €379 million), up 8.5% on 2024, and operating profit rose to PLN 89.7 million (€21.1 million) from PLN 82.1 million (€19.4 million) the year before. Net profit attributable to…
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