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Alma Media focuses on the publishing of newspapers, providing business information and the development and publishing of online marketplaces.

Alma Media officially started operating on April 1, 1998 when Aamulehti Corporation and MTV Oy merged.

Not any longer. Alma Media sold its Broadcasting business including MTV3 to Nordic Broadcasting, a company established by Bonnier and Proventus, in April 2005.

The products can be ranked in various ways, but the best known newspapers are Iltalehti, Kauppalehti and Aamulehti, including their online services, and the marketplaces Etuovi.com and Monster.fi.

Alma Media operates in 30 locations in Finland and 6 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. See maps for all our offices.

We employ close to 2,800 experts in Finland and other countries.

Alma Media has a number of competitors in its various businesses. They are presented in this table.

Read about our strategy from Strategy page.  

Strong, well-known products. Alma Media's newspapers and online services are strong both in their respective areas and nationally. The oldest of our newspaper brands have vigorously existed for over a hundred years, and many of the marketplaces have been in operation ever since the dawn of the internet. The popularity of our reliable, constantly renewing brands is also seen in the online media, which will grow in significance in future. Competent personnel. The success of Alma Media is directly dependent on staff competence. The group's human resources function is always focusing on the constant development of personnel competencies and strengthening our goal-oriented winner culture. Chain operation, or in-group cooperation. By combining the forces of its various sectors, Alma Media is more than a sum of its parts. Practical examples include joint purchases, coaching and a multitude of development projects. Renewal. At Alma Media, doing your job a little better every day is part of everybody's daily life. Renewal takes forms such as more efficient, developing operation, employee satisfaction and constantly improving newspapers and online services.

Alma Media publishes monthly market information on media advertising compiled by TNS Gallup Oy on the Industry information section of this website.

Alma Media newspapers enjoy steady circulation numbers. Exceptions are Aamulehti, whose circulation has spiralled upward ever since the start of the millennium, and Iltalehti, whose circulation has suffered from the overall decline of the afternoon paper market. Learn more about the circulations and numbers of visitors.

The online business accounts for nearly 16% of Alma Media's annual net sales.

On the basis of the number of visitors, the clear leader is Iltalehti.fi with its approximately 2.2 million unique visitors a week. It is followed by Telkku.com (approx. 616,000 weekly visitors), Kauppalehti.fi (approx. 615,000 weekly visitors) and Etuovi.com (approx. 413,000 weekly visitors).

Alma Media offers interesting and challenging work assignments. We employ many types of professionals, from journalists to information technology experts. You can see all our current vacancies here. If you cannot find an interesting vacancy just now, you can send us an open application using the form on the same page.

Alma Media Group includes three newspaper printing houses, located in Tampere, Pori and Rovaniemi, Finland. Among others, Kauppalehti, most of the volume of Iltalehti, Aamulehti, Satakunnan Kansa, Lapin Kansa and Pohjolan Sanomat are printed in these printing houses owned by Alma Media. Kainuun Sanomat and part of Alma Media’s local newspapers are printed in external printing houses.