About Agora

Agora S.A. produces newspapers, magazines and other periodicals and runs an Internet business in Poland. Additionally, the company controls 13 radio companies. The company’s radio group consists of 18 Golden Oldies (Zlote Przeboje) radio stations, six local radio stations (Radio Roxy FM) and a superregional news radio TOK FM broadcasting in nine cities. Its radio group includes also two local stations which play in AC format (Adult Contemporary). The company is also active in the outdoor segment through its subsidiary, Art Marketing Syndicate SA (AMS). Segments The company comprises the following main business segments: Press and other media, and Outdoor advertising. Business Activities The business activities of the company include the following: publishing of newspapers, books, periodical publications and other publishing activities printing newspapers, other polygraph activity, not classified elsewhere, assembly of texts and manufacturing of printing boards, other services relating to polygraph activities, radio and television activity, issuing sound records, and manufacturing of movies and video records. The company’s main business is publishing of ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ - Poland's daily, which has 5.9 million readers and sells 448 thousand copies every day. It also publishes free newspaper ‘Metro’, a daily in Poland. Metro is distributed in 504 thousand copies. Its 15 color magazines offer a range of topics, from interior design and home to culinary and lifestyle issues. Combined paid circulation of the company’s monthlies in 2007 was 13 million copies. AMS is an outdoor operator in Poland. AMS offers classic billboards and premium panels, such as backlights, citylights on public transportation shelters, transit advertising on buses and large format wall-mounted panels on buildings. The company's Internet services include Gazeta.pl Internet portal and online services and brands, such as classified vortals on employment and real-estate, Sport.pl or Tivi.pl or Bebo.Gazeta.pl. The company is also the owner of Trader.com (Polska). It is predominantly active in real-estate and automotive classified advertising through 5 Internet portals and 6 press publications. Trader.com's Internet brands include the online classified services in the Polish market: Domiporta.pl (real-estate/home) and Autotrader.pl (automotive), as well as Tabor24.pl (machinery, trucks and utility vehicles) and Kupsprzedaj.pl (general classifieds). Company runs also a popular automotive community service AutoFoto.pl. The company's print operations comprise local automotive and real-estate publications. Radio operations of the company encompass a group of local radio stations operating under two brands: Golden Oldies and Roxy FM, an opinion-making news station TOK FM (9) and an Internet radio Tuba.fm.

Country
Industry:
Newspapers: Publishing, or Publishing and Printing
Founded:
1989
IPO Date:
04/21/1999
ISIN Number:
I_PLAGORA00067
Address:
8/10 Czerska Street, Warsaw 00-732, Poland
Phone Number
48 22 555 6000

Key Executives

CEO:
Hojka, Bartosz
CFO
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COO:
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