BERLIN (Reuters) - Friede Springer, heiress to German tycoon Axel Springer's media empire, designated Chief Executive Mathias Doepfner as her successor on Wednesday as she gifted, sold and transferred ...
Succession at a global media empire is a tricky business–the inspiration for popular HBO melodramas, no less. But if you’re willing to hand over a billion dollars worth of company stock, a smooth ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Friede Springer, media group Axel Springer's owner, is giving Chief Executive Mathias Doepfner a two percent stake worth around 75 million euros (59 million pounds) and a source ...
(Reuters) -German media giant Axel Springer, which owns Germany's popular Bild tabloid and U.S. news site Politico, is considering a split of the company together with private equity KKR, two sources ...
FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Axel Springer's (SPRGn.DE) failure to clinch a deal to buy the Financial Times lengthens a line of setbacks in a decade-old quest by Germany's biggest news publisher to ...
Friede Springer has transferred about $1.5 billion of shares in Germany’s Axel Springer SE to Chief Executive Officer Mathias Doepfner, a move that effectively makes him heir to the sprawling media ...
German publishing house Axel Springer SE said on Wednesday it is in negotiations with private equity firm KKR and Friede Springer of the Springer family for a potential strategic investment of KKR in ...
BERLIN — German book giant Axel Springer looks increasingly likely to jump back into bed with fellow publisher Heinrich Bauer for a bigger piece of bankrupt Kirch Media’s pie after Swiss publishing ...