Norges Handels og Sjøfartstidende AS

Aksjeselskap

Aksjeselskap is the Norwegian term for a stock-based company. It is usually abbreviated AS or A/S, especially when used in company names. An AS is always a limited company, i.e. the owners cannot be held liable for any debt beyond the stock capital...

or NHST Media Group is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 media conglomerate

Media conglomerate

A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet...

 that publishes a number of newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

s and online tools. The company dates back to 1889 when it started the predecessor of Dagens Næringsliv

Dagens Næringsliv

Dagens Næringsliv, commonly known as DN, is a Norwegian tabloid specializing in business reporting with a claimed daily circulation of 82,775 copies in 2008, making it the 8th largest newspaper in Norway. The editor in chief is Amund Djuve. Its name is Norwegian for "Today's Business".Originally...

. The largest owners of the company are Dagbladet

Dagbladet

Dagbladet is Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, and the third largest newspaper overall with a circulation of 105,255 copies in 2009, 18,128 papers less than in 2008. The editor in chief is Lars Helle....

 (20.49%), Bonheur

Bonheur

For the artist, see Rosa BonheurBonheur is a Norwegian holding company for the Olsen family. The company is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange and has ownership in numerous companies within energy, shipping and other sectors. The Bonheur company controls the Ganger Rolf company which has a 19.51%...

 (16.47%), Ganger Rolf

Ganger Rolf ASA

Ganger Rolf ASA is a Norwegian holding company for the Olsen family. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has ownership positions in numerous companies primarily within the energy and shipping sectors, but also other areas such as real estate and mass media. All investments are...

 (16.15%) and Must Invest (13.44%).

The company publishes a number of newspapers within business, including Dagens Næringsliv

Dagens Næringsliv

Dagens Næringsliv, commonly known as DN, is a Norwegian tabloid specializing in business reporting with a claimed daily circulation of 82,775 copies in 2008, making it the 8th largest newspaper in Norway. The editor in chief is Amund Djuve. Its name is Norwegian for "Today's Business".Originally...

, TradeWinds

TradeWinds (newspaper)

TradeWinds is a critical and independent business news provider, publishing both an online newspaper and a printed weekly newspaper. TradeWinds is owned by NHST Media Group. Headquartered in Oslo, it covers shipping as a global industry with full time staff correspondents in all the major centers...

, Dagens it

Dagens it

Dagens it is a biweekly newspaper covering the IT business sector publish by Norges Handels og Sjøfartstidende in Oslo, Norway. The newspaper was originally founded as Business in 1992 but was bought by NHST in 2005 and relaunched as a supplement of the business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv....

, Fiskaren, Upstream

Upstream (newspaper)

Upstream is an independent oil and gas industry's upstream sector weekly newspaper and a daily internet news site. The newspaper is owned by NHST Media Group. It is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The newspaper covers the upstream sector of the global oil and gas industry with full time staff...

, EuroPower, Recharge and Energi. It also has the publishing company Nautisk Forlag.

History

NHST started out as the publisher of what is now called Dagens Næringsliv in 1889, getting the present name in 1987. In 1990 the company established TradeWinds and in 1993 TDN Power, now EuroPower. In 1996 Upstream was launched while Fiskaren and Infrafish were bought in 2001. In 2005 Business was bought and relaunched as Dagens it.