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SanomaWSOY
Public ()
Founded1999
Headquarters Helsinki, Finland
Key peopleJaakko Rauramo (Chairman of the board), Hannu Syrjänen (President and CEO)
IndustryMedia
ProductsMagazines and press distribution, educational publishing
Revenue€2.742 billion (2006)
Employees18,434
Website[1]
SanomaWSOY is the leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries, based in Helsinki. The group is also among the top five European magazine publishers and has a strong position, in addition to its native Finland, in the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia.

The group has an annual turnover of 2,742 million euros[1] (2006) and employs an average of 18,434 people. SanomaWSOY was formed in 1999 with the merger of Sanoma Corporation, WSOY (Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö; Werner Söderström Corporation) and Helsinki Media Company.

SanomaWSOY consists of five divisions:
  • Sanoma Magazines Magazine publishing, online operations and press distribution
  • Sanoma Newspaper publishing, online operations and printing
  • SanomaWSOY Education and Books Educational publishing and publishing
  • SWelcom Electronic media
  • Rautakirja Press distribution, kiosk operations, bookstores and entertainment
SanomaWSOY's stock is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Its biggest owners include Aatos Erkko and other members of the Erkko family. The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that was founded in 1889 as Päivälehti is one of the single most significant products of the group.

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City of Helsinki
Helsingin kaupunki - Helsingfors stad

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Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe
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Anthem
Maamme   (Finnish)
VÃ¥rt land   (Swedish)
Our Land
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director is an officer (that is, someone who works for the company) charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. A director may be an inside director (a director who is also an officer or promoter or both) or an outside, or independent, director.
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Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or chief executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency.
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Industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent, industrious"), is the segment of economy concerned with production of goods. Industry began in its present form during the 1800s, aided by technological advances, and it has continued to develop to this day.
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Aspinwall Classification System (Leo Aspinwall, 1958) classifies and rates products based on five variables:
  1. Replacement rate (How frequently is the product repurchased?)
  2. Gross margin (How much profit is obtained from each product?)

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Revenue is a business term for the amount of money that a company receives from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers.
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1,000,000,000 (alternately known as one thousand million and one billion, see below) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.

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Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has
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A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN.
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Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and
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Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe, sometimes called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Ã…land.
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Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea,
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City of Helsinki
Helsingin kaupunki - Helsingfors stad

Coat of arms
Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe
Coordinates:
Country Finland
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Anthem
Maamme   (Finnish)
VÃ¥rt land   (Swedish)
Our Land
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Motto
Eendracht maakt macht   (Dutch)
L'union fait la force"   (French)
Einigkeit macht stark
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Motto
Съединението прави силата   (Bulgarian)
"Suedinenieto pravi silata"
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"Pravda vítězí"   (Czech)
"Truth prevails"
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Kde domov můj
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Historically Regnum Mariae Patronae Hungariae (Latin)
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Himnusz ("Isten, áldd meg a magyart")
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Nad Tatrou sa blýska
"Lightning over the Tatras"


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Hymn of the Russian Federation


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(and largest city) Moscow

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SanomaWSOY

Public ()
Founded 1999
Headquarters Helsinki, Finland

Key people Jaakko Rauramo (Chairman of the board), Hannu Syrjänen (President and CEO)
Industry Media
Products Magazines and press distribution, educational publishing
Revenue €2.
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The Helsinki Stock Exchange (Finnish: Helsingin Pörssi, Swedish: Helsingforsbörsen) is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland.
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Aatos Juho Michel Erkko (born 16 September 1933 in Helsinki) is a Finnish journalist and the main owner of SanomaWSOY and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. He has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia College of Columbia University. Erkko is married to Mrs.
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner SanomaWSOY
Editor Janne Virkkunen
Founded 1889 as Päivälehti
1905 as Helsingin Sanomat
Political allegiance Neutral
Language Finnish
Headquarters Helsinki

Website: www.
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