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Edda Media

Logo: http://www.eddamedia.no/dav/f8344d07e7.jpg (Corporate web site), Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3

Norwegian media group

Edda Media was a Norwegian media group that owned a number of Norwegian newspapers, television channels, radio channels and websites. The company was part of the Mecom Group and was the remaining domestic part of Orkla Media. In 2006 the newspapers in the Edda Group had 1,250,000 daily readers, a circulation of 257,128 and 800,000 unique web users.2 It ceased to exist in 2015.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1983Founded1
  • Industrymass media1
  • HeadquartersOslo1
  • Websiteeddamedia.no
  • Legal formaksjeselskap1

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Edda Media was a Norwegian media group that owned a number of Norwegian newspapers, television channels, radio channels and websites. The company was part of the Mecom Group and was the remaining domestic part of Orkla Media. In 2006 the newspapers in the Edda Group had 1,250,000 daily readers, a circulation of 257,128 and 800,000 unique web users. The corporation had 1,801 employees and head office in Oslo.2

Corporate structure

Edda Media sits at the top of its group. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Edda Media reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Edda Media dates back to 1983 when the Orkla Group entered the mass media market through the company Orkla Communications, later Orkla Media. The company acquired through the 1980s and 1990s a number of smaller, independent newspapers and local television channels throughout the country, and quickly became one of the big three within the newspaper market in Norway, along with Schibsted and A-Pressen. In 2005 Orkla announced it would leave the media market, and sold its shares in Adresseavisen and Bergens Tidende. The remaining stakes, were sold to Mecom Media, and the company split into three holding companies: Edda Media, Berlingske Officin and Rzeczpospolita. Edda Media retained the Norwegian portfolio of media. Edda media was sold in 2012 to Amedia.

From Wikipedia’s article on Edda Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2015Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1983Founded Founded1

Sources

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