På svenska Bonnier About Us Annual Review Key Ratios Business Idea & Vision Values Organization Board & Management History Companies & Brands News & Press Jobs & Careers Growth Media Contact History. From its beginning more than 200 years ago, Bonnier has promoted high-quality media products while collaborating closely with authors, journalists and publishers. 2012: Fully Booked With the acquisition of WSOY, Bonnier becomes the biggest publisher of mass-market fiction in Finland. Bonnier's Swedish and Finnish textbook and learning aid divisions were sold as part of the deal. 2011: Plays Well With Others The age of the app is in full swing, and Bonnier’s Toca Boca with its whimsical children’s toy apps nears the 5 million download mark by the end of the year. 2010: Tablet Revolution In April 2010, when Apple released its game-changing tablet computer, the iPad, Bonnier was there. Built using the innovative Mag+ platform developed by Bonnier R&D, Popular Science+ got accolades from all, not least Steve Jobs himself. 2006: Atlantic Crossing In 2006, Bonnier became part-owner of World Publications, a U.S. magazine publisher dedicated to passions like surfing, sailing, food and travel. The following year, Bonnier acquired Time4Media and The Parenting Group, and formed Bonnier Corporation, which now has offices across the U.S. and includes 49 magazines, a film company and nearly 60 websites. 2005: Finnish TV and Radio In collaboration with Proventus, Bonnier acquired the Finnish TV channels MTV3, Sub and Radio Nova in 2005. 2003: The Road to Mordor In 2003, SF released The Lord of the Rings film trilogy in all of the Nordic countries. In Sweden, 5.7 million people (more than half the nation’s population) followed the fight against Sauron. 2002: Information Liberation Bonnier entered the freesheet market in 2002 with the locally distributed free newspaper Stockholm City. Following shifting reader habits due to the net, after nine years the paper was discontinued. 1998: The Wizard of Hogwarts The first book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series was published by Carlsen Verlag in Germany, and became an instant success. Ten years later, the books had sold more than 25 million copies in German. According to a German study, 25 percent of all Germans over 14 have read at least one Harry Potter book. 1997: Swedish Showbiz In 1997, Bonnier became co-owner of the largest Swedish TV channel, TV4. Within ten years, Bonnier had acquired 98.9 percent of the company’s shares. 1995: Swedish Magazine Queen The leading Swedish women’s publication, Amelia, launched in 1995 with Amelia Adamo as editor-in-chief. “Can men be house-trained?” was one of the premiere issue's cover headlines. Today, 45 percent of all Swedish women between 25 and 40 read the magazine. 1989: Free Press in the Baltics In 1989, Bonnier created the newspaper Äripäev to assist the democratic movement in Estonia. Because freedom of speech was still a rare commodity in the Baltics at that time, Äripäev was printed in Stockholm and shipped to Estonia for secret, free distribution. When the Soviets cut off oil supplies to Tallinn, Äripäev’s Swedish sister publication, Dagens industri, leased a tanker and delivered fuel to the ailing nation, after collecting money from readers. 1984: Science for Everyone The first issue of Illustreret Videnskab (Science Illustrated) is published and immediately becomes the Nordic countries’ largest science, nature and technology magazine. It is currently published in ten countries, including the U.S., and each issue is read by around 2.4 million people. 1976: Taking Care of Business The Swedish business daily Dagens industri began in 1976, forming the basis of a successful group of financial newspapers in countries throughout Northern and Eastern Europe. 1973: Silver Screen Stars Bonnier acquired the major Swedish film company Svensk Filmindustri, SF, in 1973. The company was best known for producing most of the films by Ingmar Bergman and movie adaptations of Astrid Lindgren’s children’s books Pippi Longstocking and Karlsson on the Roof. 1965: Passionate Readers Swedish special interest magazine publisher Specialtidningsförlaget launched in 1965 with Veckans Affärer (Business Week). The interior magazine Allt i Hemmet and the food magazine Allt om Mat were added over the next five years, marking the beginning of Bonnier’s success as a publisher of “vertical” magazines for specific groups of passionate enthusiasts. 1950: Bam, Pow, Bop! The comic book publisher Semic opened in Stockholm in 1950. The first title was The Phantom. Over the next few years followed favorites such as Blondie (1951), Tarzan (1951) and Buffalo Bill (1952). 1944: Expressen Decries the Nazi Regime In 1944, Bonnier leaders founded the evening newspaper Expressen in an effort to counteract Nazi propaganda. The paper gained a reputation for being the “little man’s” voice against those in power, and quickly became the largest daily in the Nordic area—a position it maintained for more than 50 years. 1935: Mingling with the Stars The weekly magazine Vecko-Revyn was founded in 1935. During its existence the content has been transformed drastically several times. It was first a family magazine, then a short story magazine, later a family magazine again, and since 1977 has been a successful magazine for young women. 1929: Magazines, Here We Come In 1929, Bonnier purchased Sweden's largest magazine publishing company, Åhlén & Åkerlund. The future creator of the Bonnier Group, Albert Bonnier Jr., was just 22 years old and living in New York when he received news of the purchase through a telegram from his father, Tor Bonnier. The text of the telegram read: "Today we bought Åhlén & Åkerlund. Vogue la galère [roughly, ‘Make it or break it’].” 1924: Extra, Extra! Founder Gerhard Bonnier’s grandson Karl-Otto joined together with other family members to acquire enough stocks to claim majority partnership of the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Today Dagens Nyheter is wholly owned by Bonnier and is the country’s largest morning paper. 1884: August Strindberg Charged with Blasphemy After August Strindberg’s short story collection Getting Married, published by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Strindberg was charged with blasphemy. Strindberg was in Switzerland at the time and did not want to return to Sweden. Karl Otto Bonnier traveled to Geneva and convinced him to come home. Strindberg was acquitted by the municipal court in Stockholm. 1862: Gerhard Bonnier Dies The founding father of the Bonnier family died at age 84. His obituary, which he wrote himself before passing, alleged that he was born in France and was the son of a French envoy murdered on the way home from Congress in Rastadt. Not a word was true. His real name was Gutkind Hirschel, he was born in Dresden and moved to Copenhagen at age 20 where he took the name Gerhard Bonnier. 1837: Was Napoleon a Fake? The book-publishing house Albert Bonniers Förlag was founded in Stockholm in 1837. The company’s first title was an essay by Jean-Baptiste Pérès, called Proof That Napoleon Never Existed. 1804: It Started With a Mystery In 1804, Gerhard Bonnier published an anthology of crime stories called Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier (Strange and true criminal histories) in Copenhagen. The name on the cover of the book was that of German writer Henrik Spiesz, but Spiesz claimed he didn’t actually write it. The true identity of Bonnier’s first published author remains a mystery to this day. Share on Twitter Facebook CONTACT RSS FEEDS TERMS OF USE SITEMAP TWITTER BONNIER INTRANET