BERLIN — He may be down, but he’s definitely not out. Bankrupt media mogul Leo Kirch has turned his year-long battle with publisher Axel Springer into a legal war. At Springer’s AGM on June 26, he ...
BERLIN (Reuters) – Friede Springer, heiress to German tycoon Axel Springer’s media empire, designated Chief Executive Mathias Doepfner as her successor on Wednesday as she gifted, sold and transferred ...
Succession at a global media empire is a tricky business–the inspiration for popular HBO melodramas, no less. But if you’re willing to hand over a billion dollars worth of company stock, a smooth ...
Friede Springer has transferred about $1.5 billion of shares in Germany’s Axel Springer SE to Chief Executive Officer Mathias Doepfner, a move that effectively makes him heir to the sprawling media ...
The owner of the German publishing house Axel Springer on Thursday tapped the media giant's current chief executive as her "successor", handing him 19 percent of the company as a "gift", the media ...
FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Axel Springer's (SPRGn.DE) failure to clinch a deal to buy the Financial Times lengthens a line of setbacks in a decade-old quest by Germany's biggest news publisher to ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Friede Springer, media group Axel Springer's owner, is giving Chief Executive Mathias Doepfner a two percent stake worth around 75 million euros (59 million pounds) and a source ...