Telegraaf Media Group reorganizes printing, 168 fewer jobs – nrc.nl

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Publisher Telegraaf Media Groep (TMG) removes 168 jobs at printers. This confirms Ingo Heijnen, spokesman for TMG. The focus will be on the printing plant in Amsterdam, the Alkmaar location will close

TMG says. It is an important step

The work of the two printers are joined in Amsterdam , thereby getting 168 of the 250 employees at the printing lost their jobs.

TMG calls it an important step in the transition to focus on the core business and core brands. In December 2014 announced the Board of TMG that pressures no longer belong to the core activities of TMG. In that context, the company is now known that the press operation brings back from ten to four presses

CEO Geert-Jan van der Snoek:.

” This plan is a necessary and drastic decision. The market in which we operate is undergoing major and rapid changes. It is up to us to adapt to the company over the full width “

Ernst Shot, director of facilities management TMG where pressure activities include:.

“Intervention is inevitable. There is overcapacity in the market. Additionally, there are continuing circulation declines at our newspapers by the shift from paper to digital. Measures are needed to align its operational printing costs on those developments “

Reorganisation on reorganization

In March it became clear that TMG had to reorganize again:. The cost of the year were insufficient to offset the decline in results. Van der Snoek said:

“The results of 2014 and our findings from recent months show that our organization pace to make to adapt to the rapidly changing media use. “

TMG posted last year a turnover of 514.9 million euros. That is 5.1 percent lower than in 2013. In particular, revenues were from advertising – in print media with more than 15 percent. Thereby prove falling circulation – in particular regional titles -. Not be offset by successes in the digital field

In 2014, TMG suffered a net loss of 31.8 million euros. This was partly through a depreciation of 40.9 million euros on Radio Veronica. In 2013, TMG pulled a net profit of 178 million euros. This was mainly due to the sale of its interest in a German TV company.

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Under TMG may include The Telegraph , DFT and Metro , Autovisie , Private , WOMAN and a number of regional newspapers such as the Haarlem Dagblad and Noord Holland Dagblad . Also Radio Veronica, Classic FM and Sky Radio are part of the media company

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