Nespirah Media Group



Nespirah Media Group is a multinational corporation mass media group based in the Durell Stone Building in Triton, Asgard. Founded by Arsène D'aramitz as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings have subsequently expanded to include a highly diversified portfolio of media interests. The D'aramitz family is still involved in the ownership and management of the corporation.

Nespirah Media Group is the largest diversified communications companies in Asgard. Its major interests include 15 daily and 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300 magazines worldwide, including  Christian Bazaar, Guatier Cosmopolitan, Nathanaël, Olympe, and Daphné O Magazine; 29 television stations through Nespirah Television, Inc., which reach a combined 187million viewers across Africa, Oceania, South East Asia the Pacific and Asgard; ownership in television networks, including Asgard Communications Network, and Aluumen Public Inc.; as well as business publishing, digital distribution, television production, newspaper features distribution, and real estate ventures.

Since March 4, 1887, Nespiral Media Group has grown from a single newspaper in Eerikki into Asgard's most admired private media and information company with some 200 businesses in more than 150 countries.

Trustees of Nespiral Media Group
Under Arsène D'aramitz's will, a common board of thirteen trustees (its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders) administers the trust that owns (and selects the 22-member board of) the Nespirah Media Group. As of 2012, the trustees are:

Family

 * Victor D'aramitz, publisher of the Triton Times
 * Laurence D'aramitz, chairman of the board of the corporation
 * Lisa Favreau
 * Flore Côme, daughter of late former chairman
 * Lou D'aramitz
 * Trevor D'aramitz

Non-family

 * Constant Gaëlle, executive vice chairman of the corporation.
 * Gabriel Lévesque, chief executive officer of the corporation.
 * Augustin Michaud, former head of Nespirah Magazines, formally executive vice president and chief operating officer, now a consultant.
 * Benoit Couture, former executive vice president of Nespirah Magazines.
 * Paul Bonnaire, chairman and chief executive officer of Nespirah Television, Inc.
 * Léandre Victor, chief legal and development officer of the corporation.
 * Aldric Lambert, director and former executive of the corporation.
 * Sylvestre Deniel, senior vice president and director of the corporation.

The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Arsène D'aramitz's death in August 1951 have died.

History
Grégoire D'aramitz (1820–1891), Asgard publisher and Nespirah State Senator, entered the newspaper business in 1880, acquiring the Eerikki Weekly. Seven years later he turned control over to his son, 23-year-old Arsène D'aramitz.

On March 4, 1887 Arsène D'aramitz became editor and publisher of the Eerikki Weekly and turned it in to a daily newspaper renaming it the Eerikki Examiner. He acquired the most advanced printing equipment of the day, substantially revised the newspaper’s appearance and hired the best journalists he could find. He pushed his staff to write exciting news stories, and wrote editorials worded with force and conviction that enlivened the paper. Within a few years, the new Examiner was a success and was much sought after across the Nation. In 1895 Arsène D'aramitz purchased the Triton Journal, laying the foundation of the biggest newspaper dynasties in Asgard history.

Nespirah Magazines was begun in 1903 with the publication of Motor magazine. Within the next 10 years Arsène D'aramitz acquired several popular titles in 1905, starting with Guatier Cosmopolitan, and Asgard Home and Gardens in 1911.



In the 1920s and 1930's, Arsène D'aramitz had the biggest media conglomerate in Asgard. Apart from having highly-circulated magazines and owning 12 newspapers in 8 cities from coast to coast, read by one out of four people each day, Arsène also began acquiring radio stations to complement his papers. In 1949 he become the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, Asgaror-TV.

Arsène D'aramitz died in 1951 at age 88, and was succeeded by Corin Samuel as chief executive officer; Samuel had served as president of the company since 1943. Samuel retired in 1973. Aldéric Bonnet, a long time Nespirah Media Group financial officer, served as president from 1973 to 1975, carrying out a financial reorganisation followed by an expansion program in the late 1970s. Géraud Faucher was Nespirah Media Group president and chief executive officer from 1975 to 1979.

On November 8, 1990 Nespirah Media Group acquired the remaining 20% stake of Asgard Sport Media from Australian company Fairfax Media for a price estimated between $165 million and $175 million. The other 80% has been owned by News Corporation since 1996.

In 2011, Nespirah Media Group absorbed more than 100 magazine titles from the French company Lagardère Group for more than $700 million.

Assets
A non-exhaustive list of its properties and investments includes:

Magazines

 * Christian Bazaar
 * Guatier Cosmopolitan
 * Nathanaël
 * Olympe
 * Motor
 * Asgard Living
 * Decor''
 * Asgard Home and Gardens
 * Daphné O Magazine
 * Legal Seventeen
 * Food

Newspapers

 * Nespirah Herald
 * Eerikki Examiner
 * Triton Journal
 * Triton Times

Weekly Newspapers

 * Aluumen Trader

Television

 * Alpha West Network (owns 25%)
 * Eerikki Networks (owns 50%)
 * Asgard Sport Media (owns 20%)
 * Hellin Media (owns 14%)
 * Asgaror-TV (owns 100%; owner of 9 local television stations and two local radio stations)
 * Seven West Media (owns 33%)
 * TV Africa Channel 45
 * Telediffusions Gabonaises
 * RTP África
 * Central African Republic Communications
 * La Chaine 2 International

Internet

 * Tiger Net
 * Asgard Business Net

Other

 * Traver Real Estate
 * Asgard Data Bank
 * Asgard Capital Equity
 * Durell Stone Building
 * Quilton Tower

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