DGAP-News: TOMORROW FOCUS AG closed a strategic partnership with The Huffington Post: Launch of the German Huffington Post in Fall 2013
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TOMORROW FOCUS AG closed a strategic partnership with The Huffington
Post: Launch of the German Huffington Post in Fall 2013
29.04.2013 / 07:36
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MEDIA RELEASE
TOMORROW FOCUS AG closed a strategic partnership with The Huffington Post:
Launch of the German Huffington Post in Fall 2013
Munich, Germany, 29 April 2013 - The Huffington Post, one of the most
prominent news and opinion websites, will launch in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland in partnership with TOMORROW FOCUS AG, one of the leading
publicly traded Internet companies in Germany. The German edition of The
Huffington Post will be a subsidiary company of TOMORROW FOCUS Media GmbH.
The Huffington Post will bring its signature mix of news, blogging,
community, and social engagement to the German edition, which will be both
a news outlet and a platform that captures the unique perspectives, voices
and spirit of the German people. TOMORROW FOCUS Media will contribute the
editorial power of FOCUS Online, Germany's fastest growing news portal in
combination with one of the biggest local ad networks.
An editorial team of experienced journalists will be formed in Munich in
the next months, with the launch expected in fall this year. Further
details will be announced at a press conference in Munich during the
digital conference DLDwomen 2013 of Hubert Burda Media on 15 July 2013.
Arianna Huffington is Co-Chairwoman of DLDwomen 2013.
'We are thrilled to be partnering with TOMORROW FOCUS to launch the German
edition of the Huffington Post,' said chair, president, and editor-in-chief
Arianna Huffington. TOMORROW FOCUS is deeply involved in virtually every
sector of digital content in Germany, and there is no one we'd rather be
partnering with for this expansion. With their online publishing expertise
and deep knowledge of German culture, TOMORROW FOCUS and Burda are uniquely
positioned to help us tell the stories people care about most - and, just
as important, help Germans tell their stories themselves.'
'TOMORROW FOCUS is quite simply the best partner for us as we add Germany
to our growing portfolio of international editions - a portfolio that now
includes each of The Big 5 European media and advertising markets,' said
CEO Jimmy Maymann. 'More than any other German publishing house, TOMORROW
FOCUS has mastered its online transition and built a brand portfolio that
is not only wide and deep, but reflects and complements The Huffington
Post's goals and core values. We are very excited to join forces with the
extraordinary TOMORROW FOCUS/Hubert Burda Media management team, including
Dr Hubert Burda and Dr Paul-Bernhard Kallen, who have been champions of
this partnership from the very start.'
'We are very proud to be part of the worldwide success story of The
Huffington Post, one of the most innovative and well-known news and opinion
platforms,' says Christoph Schuh, Board Member of TOMORROW FOCUS AG. 'With
The Huffington Post we will create a new media brand in the German market
that stands for high quality online journalism combined with the
transparency and immediacy of social media, following the example of The
Huffington Post in the USA, in France, Italy, Spain, Canada and UK.'
'The German Huffington Post is not another news portal - it's a platform
for engagement', says Oliver Eckert, Managing Director of TOMORROW FOCUS
Media. 'It provides our audience with a social experience, bringing fresh
voices to the German media landscape. We need journalists that will fit
this new media paradigm.'
The Huffington Post Media Group is part of AOL Inc., TOMORROW FOCUS Media
GmbH is a subsidiary of TOMORROW FOCUS AG, one of the leading publicly
traded Internet companies in Germany.
About The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news,
features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for
opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46.2 million monthly U.S.
unique visitors (comScore January, 2013) posting over eight million
comments each month. The site has over 30,000 bloggers -- from politicians,
students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who
contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The
Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, and
Italy.
For further information please watch the following video:
http://bit.ly/ZJmabO
About TOMORROW FOCUS AG
TOMORROW FOCUS AG (ISIN DE005495329) is based in Munich, Germany, and is
one of the leading listed internet groups in Germany. The Group has a
workforce of around 750, and its business operations are divided into three
segments: Transactions, Advertising and Technologies.
The Transactions segment includes HOLIDAYCHECK AG, which operates a number
of hotel rating and travel booking portals by the same name; WEBASSETS
B.V., which operates the ZOOVER hotel rating portals and the
METEOVISTA/WEERONLINE weather portals; TOMORROW TRAVEL B.V., which operates
the Dutch online travel agent TJINGO; RPC VOYAGES SAS, which operates the
French online travel agent ECOTOUR; ELITEMEDIANET GmbH, which operates the
premium online dating agency ELITEPARTNER; and JAMEDA GmbH, which operates
the physician ratings portal JAMEDA.de.
The Advertising segment includes TOMORROW FOCUS MEDIA GmbH, one of the
leading German online marketing providers, which markets numerous
well-known portals on behalf of business partners in addition to those
operated by the Group itself, such as the news and utility journalism site
FOCUS Online, the finance and stock market portal FINANZEN100 and the
parents portal NETMOMS.
The Technologies segment includes CELLULAR GmbH, one of Germany's leading
full-service agencies for mobile platforms, and TFT GmbH, which provides
technology and creative services for web-based IT and e-commerce solutions.
Media and Investor Relations contact:
TOMORROW FOCUS AG
Armin Blohmann
Neumarkter Strasse 61
81673 Munich
Germany
phone: +49 (0)89 9250 1256
fax: +49 (0)89 9250 2403
email: a.blohmann(at)tomorrow-focus.de
www.tomorrow-focus.de
http://twitter.com/tomorrowfocus
http://facebook.de/tomorrowfocus
http://youtube.com/tomorrowfocus
HR contact for applications:
TOMORROW FOCUS AG
Heidrun Lichter
Neumarkter Strasse 61
81673 Munich
Germany
phone: +49 (0)89 9250 3497
fax: +49 (0)89 9250 2216
email: h.lichter(at)tomorrow-focus.de
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Caption: Christoph Schuh (TOMORROW FOCUS), Jimmy Maymann (Huffington
Post), Oliver Eckert (TOMORROW FOCUS)
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Language: English
Company: TOMORROW FOCUS AG
Neumarkter Str. 61
81673 München
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)89 9250-1256
Fax: +49 (0)89 9250-2403
E-mail: a.blohmann(at)tomorrow-focus.de
Internet: www.tomorrow-focus.de
ISIN: DE0005495329
WKN: 549532
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover,
München, Stuttgart
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