Realtions

[Simo Malinen]

HARRY:
>Which reminds me: there is also an interesting relation between >Finland 
>and Holland: the Dutch publisher of Disney comics (VNU) has >recently been 
>taken over by a Finnish company.
>Maybe that will get us even more Kari Korhonen here? 8-)

PETRI:
It's not the whole VNU that the Finnish company bought. The Finnish company 
is SanomaWSOY which is the largest publishing house in Finland. Part of 
SanomaWSOY is Helsinki Media which is the Finnish Disney-publisher. VNU did 
only sell its magazines (not any newspapers) to SanomaWSOY including the 
Disney-publications. The reason for the deal was something like to protect 
SanomaWSOY from take overs.
Maybe we get to see more Dutch-stories here. Is it the same company that 
publishes and produces stories in Holland? We might start to call Dutch 
stories Finnish stories. ;-)


Actually it was VNU's magazine publishing unit 
(CIG) that was sold to SanomaWSOY. The plan is now 
to unite Helsinki Media and CIG as a one bigger 
publishing house having it's HQ in Holland.(!)

Since both Disney weeklies (Finnish Aku Ankka and 
yes, Dutch Donal Duck) are now published by the 
same company it might be likely that in a long term 
it will not be economically reasonable for the 
company to have two totally different way compiled 
36-pager Disney weeklies.
Today those weeklies are way too different. E.g. 
Dutch Donald Duck is having absolutely too much old 
Egmont stories already seen in Finland years ago. 
Changes ahead for both in a future - probably.

 - Simo


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