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Kinnevik in bid to buy up publisher Metro

Business & Money: 6 Feb 12
Swedish investment firm Kinnevik has made an offer to buy up Metro International, a global publisher of free newspapers. READ »

France sale boosts Metro earnings

Business & Money: 18 Jul 11
The pending sale of its loss-making French division has boosted the profits at Metro International, the Swedish publisher of free newspapers, the firm reported on Monday. READ »

Publisher Metro reports drop in quarterly losses

Business & Money: 15 Apr 11
Swedish free newspaper publisher Metro International announced on Friday that its first quarter losses shrank substantially compared to the same quarter last year. READ »

Swedish publisher Metro swings to profit in 2010

Business & Money: 3 Feb 11
Swedish publisher Metro International, which publishes free daily newspapers in over 100 cities around the world, announced it had swung back to profit in 2010 thanks to restructuring and the recovery of the advertising market. READ »

Profits return for free paper publisher Metro

Business & Money: 18 Oct 10
Swedish publisher Metro International has returned to profitability, reporting a third quarter net profit of just over €1 million ($1.4 million) on Monday. The company also announced plans to change its tax home to Sweden. READ »

Publisher Metro launches in three new French cities

Business & Money: 27 Sep 10
Swedish media company Metro International has launched in three new French cities and will boost distribution in Paris starting next month. READ »

Free paper publisher Metro sees losses shrink

Business & Money: 19 Jul 10
Metro International, which publishes a number of free newspapers around the world, said on Monday that it had narrowed its losses in the second quarter. READ »

Metro sells Greek business due to crisis

National: 25 Jun 10
Swedish free newspaper publisher, Metro International has announced the sale of its Greek arm due to the parlous economic situation in the country, which has hit advertising revenues. READ »

Metro finishes 2009 with a flourish

Business & Money: 4 Feb 10
Metro International, the Swedish publisher of free newspapers, reported a strong last quarter in 2009 but recorded a loss for the full year. READ »

Advertising slump sees Metro losses burgeon

Business & Money: 20 Jul 09
Free newspaper giant Metro International made an operating loss of €3 million in the second quarter, according to interim results released on Monday. READ »

Metro abandons 12 Swedish cities

Business & Money: 18 May 09
Crisis-hit Swedish media group Metro International has announced that it is to end distribution of its publication in 12 cities in the north and south-east of Sweden. READ »

Metro announces 528 million kronor share issue

Business & Money: 11 May 09
Crisis-hit Swedish media group Metro International, the global free newspaper publisher, announced on Monday a rights issue aimed at raising 528 million kronor ($68 million). READ »

Metro's losses mount as potential bid fails to materialize

Business & Money: 20 Apr 09
Metro International, publisher of the free daily Metro newspaper, saw its shares on the Stockholm stock exchange plunge Monday morning following huge first quarter losses. READ »

Metro profitable in 2008 despite recent losses

Business & Money: 5 Feb 09
Sweden’s Metro International, which publishes free newspapers around the globe, on Thursday reported net profits of $4.06 million in 2008 despite fourth quarter losses. READ »

Metro to stop publishing in Spain

Business & Money: 30 Jan 09
Swedish media company Metro International announced on Thursday that it was shuttering the Spanish version of its free Metro newspaper due to falling ad revenues. READ »

Three Swedes among world's most powerful businesswomen

Society: 29 Sep 08
Three Swedish women are among Fortune magazine’s most powerful business women in the world, with SEB bank CEO Annika Falkengren coming in seventh place. READ »

Tough US newspaper market makes for big losses at Metro

Business & Money: 21 Jul 08
Metro International, the Sweden-based publisher of free newspapers, announced on Monday a net loss of €1.95 million ($3.1 million). READ »

Metro cuts losses in first quarter

Business & Money: 21 Apr 08
Metro International, publisher of free newspapers, said on Monday it had narrowed its first quarter net loss. READ »

Metro International posts 2007 losses

Business & Money: 8 Feb 08
The Swedish publishing giant cited volatility in the global newspaper market. READ »

Metro case against Bonnier thrown out

Business & Money: 5 Jun 07
Swedish free newspaper Metro has been defeated in a court case by Bonnier, publisher of Swedish dailies Stockholm City, Dagens Nyheter and Expressen. The case revolved around Bonnier's advertising prices. READ »

Metro's losses increase

Business & Money: 23 Apr 07
Times are tough for Metro International. Even Sweden, home of Metro newspapers, is feeling the pinch. READ »

Stenbeck nominated as Kinnevik chair

Business & Money: 28 Mar 07
Cristina Stenbeck has been proposed as the new chairwoman of Kinnevik, the family investment company in which she is principal owner. READ »

Stenbeck 'to take over at Kinnevik'

Business & Money: 8 Mar 07
Cristina Stenbeck, 29, is to take over as chairwoman of family holding company Kinnevik in May, it has been reported. Kinnevik controls major companies including Metro International. READ »

Free papers carve out a niche in Sweden

Business & Money: 6 Mar 07
Free daily newspapers have reshaped the European media market, with Sweden's Metro in the vanguard. Meanwhile, the Swedish market for freesheets has reached maturity, reports Delphine Toitou. READ »

Metro CEO announces plans to quit

Business & Money: 13 Feb 07
Pelle Törnberg, the CEO of newspaper group Metro International, has said he will quit his post. The move came as the company announced profits of $11.5 million. READ »

Metro offloads Finnish operation

Business & Money: 11 Aug 06
Newspaper group Metro International is to sell its Finnish operation, Metro Finland, to Finland's biggest newspaper firm, Sanoma. READ »

Metro positive despite first quarter loss

Business & Money: 25 Apr 06
Newspaper group Metro International has reported a pre-tax loss of 4.9 million dollars for the first quarter of the year. In the same period last year the company made a profit of 6.9 million dollars. READ »

Metro targets profit in 2006

Business & Money: 15 Feb 06
Metro International, a Swedish-based publisher of free daily newspapers around the world, says that its loss narrowed in 2005 and that it hopes to swing to profit this year. READ »

Paid-for newspapers to become "niche" - Metro chief

Business & Money: 28 Nov 05
Free daily newspapers will over the long-term replace their paid-for counterparts on weekdays, the chief executive of the Swedish free newspaper group Metro International has said. READ »

Les abus des entreprises suédoises

Smörgåsbord: 17 Jun 05
Alors que l’Union européenne traverse une période de doute, l’influence de ses institutions sur les sociétés nationales ne diminue pas pour autant. La Suède ne fait pas exception : le monopole d’État sur les pharmacies va subir des assouplissements, et les entreprises coupables de fraude sont sanctionnées par l’Union européenne. READ »

Consumer watchdog to sue Metro

Business & Money: 16 Jun 05
The Swedish state consumer ombudsman, KO, says it will sue Swedish group Metro International, publisher of free newspapers around the world, for having presented advertising in the guise of news. READ »

Metro takes on Blocket with launch of "Metro Market"

Business & Money: 13 Apr 05
Metro International, the international newspaper group, launches a classified advertising site for consumers days after rival site Blocket.se was vandalised by a hacker. READ »

Metro boss resigns after racist "joke"

National: 13 Jan 05
Free morning newspaper Metro makes headlines of its own after revelations that one of its board members opened an after-dinner speech with the words "Good evening ladies, gentlemen and niggers". READ »


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