ABC…Egmont
From A-Z Egmont’s products cover the ground!
| A | ALT for damerne is a Danish brand for modern, active, quality-conscious women who want ideas and challenges in every aspect of their lives. Beside the weekly magazine, the brand includes an ALT live fashion fair and ALT for damerne women’s run. – Egmont Magasiner has published ALT for damerne since the first issue hit the streets in 1946. |
| B | Bamse is a Swedish comic created by Rune Andréasson in 1966. The series about the world’s strongest and kindest bear has had its own magazine in Sweden since 1973. Bamse is also featured in films and picture books. – Egmont Kärnan in Malmö publishes the Bamse comics. |
| C | Cappelen Damm, now one of Norway’s largest book publishers, was created when the Egmont publishing company Damm merged with the Bonnier company Cappelen. It produces more than 1,200 titles in all genres. – Tom Harald Jenssen, Managing Director of Damm before the merger, spearheads the new publishing giant. |
| D | Donald Duck, Kalle Anka, Anders And. According to a Scandinavian saying, a favorite child – or in this case a duck – has many names. Egmont’s first issue of the comics about the Duckburg universe was printed in 1948. – Egmont publishes Disney comics in over 30 countries, and with millions of weekly readers, Egmont is the world’s largest producer of comics. |
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Egmont's founder, Egmont Harald Petersen, grew up in abject poverty. That is why he declared in his will that a portion of his company profits should consistently be spent on improving the quality of life for children and young people. – Last year Egmont’s charitable activities donated EUR 4.7 million in support to 43 projects. |
| F | Financially Egmont is faring well. With a record revenue of EUR 1.5 billion and solid equity, the group ranks among Scandinavia’s elite companies in terms of both size and revenue. |
| G | GRAVID is a specialty magazine published in Denmark for expecting and mothers. The magazine brims with advice for women experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions, swollen legs, mood swings, ever-tighter clothes and escalating weight! – Egmont Magasiner in Hellerup produces GRAVID. |
| H | Hemmets Journal is read mainly by women interested in their house, garden and family, cooking, interior design and fashion. – Hemmets Journal is based at Egmont Tidskrifter in the southern Swedish city Malmö. |
| I | In-side magazine is a fashion and lifestyle magazine for Norwegian women aged 16-26. – The In-side editorial team has offices at Egmont Serieforlaget in Oslo. |
| J | Jubilee – 2008 marks Egmont’s 130th anniversary. In 1878 while Egmont’s founder, Egmont Harald Petersen, was on his way to buy the simple, handoperated printing press that would help him start his company, he spotted a coin lying on a cobbled street. The coin is now in safekeeping at the Egmont House, Egmont’s head office in Copenhagen. – The business that started as a tiny print shop in the kitchen of a humble apartment is today one of Scandinavia’s largest media groups. And we guard his lucky coin closely! |
| K | KING is Sweden’s first fashion magazine for men. Here Swedish men can read about fashion trends, the hottest fashion news and how to dress for the occasion. – KING is published by Egmont Tidskrifter |
| L | Lindhardt og Ringhof became Denmark’s second largest publishing house when Aschehoug took over the country’s third-largest publishing house, Bonnier Forlagene. – The publishing companies have sold 8 million books in just one year – in a country whose population is just 5.4 million. |
| M | Meet the Marbians was the first game published by Nordisk Film Games Publishing. The retro marble-themed puzzle game for iOS and Android devices arrived for download in July 2011. |
| N | Nordisk Film awards an annual prize amounting to DKK 1,000 multiplied by the age of the company. – The Nordisk Film Foundation established the Nordisk Film annual award to encourage the film and TV industry and related media and art forms to produce entertainment of high artistic, technical and professional standards. |
| O | Obelix is Asterix’s best friend, created along with all the other redoubtable Gauls by copywriter René Goscinny and artist Albert Uderzo in 1959. – Egmont produces Asterix as an album series in Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. |
| P | PlayStation is a successful games console produced by Sony. Nordisk Film is the official PlayStation distributor for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic countries. – In 2007 Nordisk Film made PlayStation 3 consoles a success in the Nordic region. |
| Q | Quist Møller, whose first name is Flemming, is a man of multiple talents – author, artist and much more. Together with Egmont’s animation company A.Film, he recently created the animated cartoon Jungo Goes Bananas – the third in the Jungo series. – A.Film is Scandinavia’s largest animation company with subsidiaries in Tallinn, Riga and Munich. |
| R | ‘Roomy’ is one of Egmont’s three core values. Our company can tell a world of stories in every medium imaginable. This diversity embodies an openness to everything that is new and the flexibility to embrace a multitude of cultures and personalities. – The two other Egmont values are Passion and Ambition. |
| S | Storytelling is our mission. Stories are at the heart of all our activities at Egmont. Stories are our promise to the world. In short: We create and tell stories. – Egmont’s payoff - We bring stories to life - was scribbled by hand during a plane journey from Japan to Denmark. |
| T | Thomas the Tank Engine was written by Wilbert Awdrey in the 1940s. These huge, powerful trains had fascinated the young Wilbert as a child. He imagined these wonderful trains as living beings, and they inspired him to create the tales about Thomas the Tank Engine. – Egmont acquired the publishing rights to Thomas the Tank Engine in 1998 and now publishes books and activity products about the little blue locomotive in Europe and Asia. |
| U | USA is the latest country in which Egmont is gaining a foothold, with Egmont UK establishing a publishing company in New York at the start of 2008. The focus is quality literature for children and young people. |
| V | Villmarksliv is Norway’s leading magazine for hunting buffs, sports fishermen and other outdoor enthusiasts. The monthly publication offers excellent advice and tips on a range of topics spanning from fishing tackle, hunting grounds, gun maintenance to gundog training. – Villmarksliv makes its way to Norwegian hunting cabins via Egmont’s company, Hjemmet Mortensen in Oslo. |
| W | W.I.T.C.H. stands for Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin. Normally, they are five quite ordinary schoolgirls, but when they transform into witches, absolutely anything can happen! Egmont launched the magazine W.I.T.C.H. in February 2001, which was an instant hit. The following year the series appeared in book form. – Egmont distributes W.I.T.C.H. to readers in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and China. |
| X | X9. Agent X9 is a cartoon series, the brainchild of crime writer Dashiell Hammett and artist Alex Raymond in 1934. |
| Y | Yvonne Jensen from the Olsen Gang is world famous - at least in Denmark! - thanks to her shrill, insistent voice and flowered hats. – Nordisk Film produced 14 Olsen Gang films in the period 1968-1998. They are among the most popular films ever shown in Danish cienmas. |
| Z | Zebra is a sister TV channel to TV 2 - Norway’s biggest commercial TV channel. Launched in 2004, TV 2 Zebra focuses on youth programs. |
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Egmont’s animation company A.Film, he recently created the animated cartoon Jungo Goes Bananas – the third in the Jungo series.
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Egmont H. Petersen at his desk.
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Cappelen Damm now one of Norway’s largest book publishers, was created when the Egmont publishing company Damm merged with the Bonnier company Cappelen. It produces more than 1,200 titles in all genres.
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Egmont produces Asterix as an album series in Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
