Egmont is a media industry groups in Scandinavia. Founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, the company's headquarters is still based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the Second World War Egmont acquired a license from Disney, and in 1948 the company started to publish Kalle Anka & C:o, a Donald Duck comic magazine in Sweden, in 1949 also in Denmark and Norway, currently in all Nordic Countries. With the acquisition i...
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Egmont is a media industry groups in Scandinavia. Founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, the company's headquarters is still based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the Second World War Egmont acquired a license from Disney, and in 1948 the company started to publish Kalle Anka & C:o, a Donald Duck comic magazine in Sweden, in 1949 also in Denmark and Norway, currently in all Nordic Countries. With the acquisition in 1963 of the Danish publisher Aschehoug, Egmont also entered the book market. The company also controls 50% of the Norwegian television channel TV 2.
In 1991, Egmont purchased the Fleetway arm of IPC Media in the UK from Robert Maxwell, and thus became Britain's largest comic book publisher. The resultant company, Fleetway Editions, was absorbed into the main Egmont brand by 2000, having largely divested itself of its original portfolio (such as 2000AD) and continued with only reprint and licensed material titles (e.g. Sonic The Comic).
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