Bonnier News - Expressen

Expressen Gives Out Culture Awards

By Bert Menninga on 2012-02-01
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On Monday, Swedish tabloid Expressen gave out its annual culture prizes. The Björn Nilsson Prize for the year's best culture journalist went to to reporter Johan Hakelius. The prize was first awarded to Björn Nilsson himself in 1994. The award includes SEk 30,000 and a statuette. A Bit of George's Hat, a theater prize, went to director Alexander Mörk-Eidem, the Heffaklumpen prize for culture for kids went to the children's theater Barnens Underjordiska Scen and the Spelmannen music prize went to Åke Holmquist.

Expressen and DN Win Paper of the Year Prizes

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-21
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Today industry association Tidningsutgivarna announced its winners of the Daily Newspaper of the Year awards. Several prizes went to Bonnier: Expressen, which won for editorial staff of the year, and Dagens Nyheter, which won for advertising department of the year.

Expressen and DN Win INMA Awards

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-18
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Voter kiosks and educational projects win for Expressen and Dagens Nyheter in media industry awards.

At the INMA Awards in New York, Dagens Nyheter and Expressen won prizes yesterday.

Vi i Villa and Expressen Release Fix-it Encyclopedia

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-04
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Cooperation between Vi i Villa and Expressen for fix-it book series.

In time for Easter weekend, Expressen and Vi i Villa released the first book in their joint series Bygg & Fixa-lexikon - a fix-it encyclopedia. The books, which will total 14, are sold where Expressen will be sold for 14 weeks, a new appearing each week. The idea came originally from Vi i Villa's CEO Christian Rudén, who contacted Expressen about cooperating on the series.   

TV4 Group Launches Health Initiative with RF and GIH

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-02
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The First Step initiative aims to get Swedes more active.

Photo: Alexandre Dulaunoy (CC-licens)

On May 15, a new health initiative launches: Första steget (the first step), a cooperation between the TV4 Group, the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH).

New Food Magazine and TV Show Mitt Kök Crosses Boundaries

By Bert Menninga on 2011-04-18
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New food concept Mitt Kök - my kitchen - to come out as a program on TV4 and a weekend magazine from Expressen.

Standing out in a forest of food magazines and TV programs takes work and planning. And it helps to have a partner. So was the thinking when Sweden's TV4 and daily newspaper Expressen decided to launch a new TV food concept for TV4's morning magazine program in combination with a magazine - Mitt Kök, which means "my kitchen" in English.

News+ a New Way to Read the News

By Bert Menninga on 2010-11-24
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News+ has arrived. A tablet platform for daily newspapers that’s not a printed version in digital format and not a newssite. Bonnier R&D’s Pontus Schultz and Dagens Nyheter’s Kalle Sandhammar explain.

After nearly half a year in development, Bonnier has launched News+, a daily newspaper platform for tablets. Soon available at Apple's App Store, first out of the starting gate will be Swedish morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter with DN+.

Soko Hits the Web

By Bert Menninga on 2010-10-07
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Soko.se, a new auction and shopping fashion site from TV4 and Expressen launched.

The TV4 Group and Swedish daily Expressen have launched Soko, an auction and shopping site for the fashion conscious. A number of well-known fashion bloggers in Sweden were invited to help in the development and the look of the site. Soko will be "an inspiring and obvious meeting place for the fashion conscious who are into buying clothes," says Malin Stråhle, director for Soko.

Expressen and Allt om Mat Release Cookbook Series

By Bert Menninga on 2010-09-28
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In a follow-up to an earlier series on tastes from around the world, Swedish daily newspaper Expressen and food magazine Allt om Mat release a new set of cookbooks.

On Sept. 26, Expressen launched a new collectible cookbook series: Allt om det goda (everything good) with recipes from  Allt om Mat as well as some new material.

Expressen's Profits at SEK 100 million First Eight Months

By Bert Menninga on 2010-09-21
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With SEK 100 million in profits, 2010 will be a good year for Swedish daily Expressen says CEO Bengt Ottosson.

Swedish evening daily Expressen continues to have a strong 2010. Profits for the first eight months were over SEK 100 million, which is double profits compared to 2009 (SEK 49.1 million).

Revenues increased to SEK 1.03 billion (compared to SEK 1 billion in 2009) and costs decreased to SEK 931 million compared to SEK 957 in 2009.

"Above all we've had a strong development in our ad revenues," says Expressen CEO Bengt Ottosson.