Metro International

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Metro International is a Swedish media company.

Metro is the largest and fastest growing international newspaper in the world. 70 daily Metro editions are published in over 100 major cities in 21 countries in 19 languages across Europe, North & South America and Asia. Metro has a unique global reach - attracting a young, active, well-educated audience of more than 18.5m daily readers and over 37.5 million weekly readers. Metro has an equal number of male and female readers and 70% are under the age of 45. Metro's advertising sales have grown at a compound annual growth rate of 44% since launch of the first edition in 1995. The company was started as a subsidiary of the Modern Times Group along with Viasat Broadcasting, and the first edition was published and distributed for the Metro Stockholm in the Stockholm Metro. It is now controlled through investment company Kinnevik. Metro was founded by Pelle Andersson.

The 70 Metro free newspaper editions are distributed in high-traffic commuter zones or in public transport networks from a combination of self-service racks and by hand distributors on weekdays. Weekend editions are also published in Stockholm, Holland and Santiago on Saturdays. The distribution points are located either in, or around, public transport networks (subways, trains, buses, trams), office buildings, retail outlets, at key distribution points on busy streets, or in other high-density population areas such as college campuses. The newspaper is primarily distributed in metro systems, and locally the name may vary due to trademark issues. Chilean and Mexican editions are called Publimetro, the Spanish one is named Metro Directo.

Metro was first launched in Stockholm on 13 February 1995. Under the name Metropol, a German language edition was published in Switzerland by "Metro Publication (Schweiz) AG". It was started on 31 January 2000 as a direct competitor to 20 Minuten. The newspaper ceased publication without announcement on 13 February 2002. A weekly magazine named Metropop started to be published on April 27, 2006, on every Thursday in Hong Kong.

Contents 1 Metro editions by region 1.1 Europe 1.1.1 City editions 1.1.2 National editions 1.2 Asia 1.3 Americas 2 External links

[edit] Metro editions by region

[edit] Europe

[edit] City editions

Aarhus Alicante Amsterdam Athens Barcelona Bologna Bordeaux Budapest Castilla-La Mancha Copenhagen Dublin Elche Florence Galicia

Genoa Gothenburg Helsinki Lille Lisbon Lyon Madrid Málaga Malmö Marseille Milan Nice Nantes Paris

Porto Prague Rennes Rome Rotterdam Seville St.Petersburg Stockholm Strasbourg Tampere Toulouse Turin Turku Valencia Veneto Verona

Warsaw Zagreb Zaragosa

[edit] National editions

• Belgium (two editions: one in Dutch and one in French)
• Denmark
• Hungary
• Portugal
• Poland
• Sweden
• The Netherlands

[edit] Asia

• Hong Kong
• Seoul
• Busan

[edit] Americas

Santiago Valparaíso and Viña del Mar Concepción

Rancagua Curicó Talca Chillán Talcahuano Philadelphia Toronto

Boston Montréal New York

Vancouver Ottawa Mexico City

Note: Another freesheet called Metro is published in 12 areas around Britain by Associated Newspapers: see Metro (Associated Metro Limited). In the UK, this is not related to Metro International, which used the name Morning News for its (now defunct) freesheet distributed in parts of the UK. It is reported that Metro International has plans to launch a rival free evening newspaper in London. Metro International and Associated Metro do however collaborate on the Dublin Metro newspaper (launched 10 October 2005), which they both own a third of, along with The Irish Times. The Dublin Metro newspaper uses the Associated Metro logo and format however.

[1].

[edit] External links

• Metro International - Official site