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The Gewista Group
Gewista is one of Austria's largest media corporations and, as the absolute market leader in Vienna and the most important agglomerations; it is also the country's most important provider of Out of Home advertising.
Shareholders
| 67% |
JCDecaux Central and Eastern Europe Holding |
| 33% |
Progress Holding Company |
Turnover
| 2001: EUR 108m |
2006: EUR 143m |
2011: EUR 141m |
| 2002: EUR 107m |
2007: EUR 138m |
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| 2003: EUR 111m |
2008: EUR 151m |
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| 2004: EUR 115m |
2009: EUR 144m |
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| 2005: EUR 122m |
2010: EUR 143m |
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Employees 2012
427 (in total including all employees of Europlakat
International subsidiaries, in Austria 138) |
Holding structure (extracts)
Gewista and its holdings
Progress Salzburg markets advertising on billboards, Rolling Boards, City Lights, Transport Media and notice boards in Salzburg. Since the partial acquisition of building-based advertising it has advanced to become the leading provider of Out of Home advertising in Salzburg. Progress Werbeland currently has around 3,000 billboard spaces at its disposal. It focuses on areas of high population density such as Linz, Wels, Styr and all the regional capitals, as well as locations and POS that are significant from a traffic-related viewpoint. With 3,000 billboard spaces in upper and lower Austria in its portfolio, the USP from upper Austria is meanwhile a much sought-after player in the field of outdoor advertising. The ARGE Autobahnwerbung, a consortium for motorway advertising, offers unique advertising opportunities on traffic boards located at motorway slip roads and dual carriageways. PSG in Carinthia and Rolling Board OÖ (Upper Austria) complete the nationwide offering of Out of Home advertising options. The company ISPA Werbung is also part of the concern. Kultur:Plakat, a company offering small cultural initiatives and event organisers in Vienna an opportunity to post legal and reliable advertisements in A1, A2 and strip formats on power lines and electrical switching boxes.