New age for Today: Print and digitally combined in Holding!

New age for Today: Print and digitally combined in Holding!

On July 9, 2025, there are essential developments in the media landscape: The shares of the Swiss TX Group AG at the “Today” co -shareholder company will be bought back in autumn 2023. This is how a new holding company is founded to bundle the prints and digitally. The necessary registration of this new holding was already submitted to the federal competition authority to ensure an integrated strategy both in the print and digital sector. Wolfgang Jansky, the CEO of "Today", emphasizes that the editorial offices have been working closely together since 2023 and the new structure should create clear entrepreneurial conditions in order to make the combination of print and digital offers more efficient.

The holding will integrate publishers AHVV Verlags GmbH and the digital platform today.at (DJ Digital Medien GmbH). Jansky will hold 25.1 % of the shares in the new holding, while the Periodika private foundation he led will have a significant influence with 36.98 % and Liechtensteinische Alta GmbH with 36.92 % of the shares. CFO Robert Knobl receives 1 % of the shares in the holding.

withdrawal of the TX Group

The withdrawal of the TX Group, which previously kept 51 % on today.at and 25.5 % of today, is carried out as part of a strategic realignment. As diemedien.at would like to focus more on growth projects in other markets. CEO Bernhard Brechbühl also announced that this step will lead to a positive one -off effect in a single -digit millions on the consolidated statement of success. The official exit was communicated on September 16, 2024.

The editorial offices of print and online were merged a year earlier, which standardized the direction of both business areas. The future owner structure will also change in such a way that the Periodika Private Foundation is expected to hold 34.75 % of the new DJ Digital Medien GmbH. Wolfgang Jansky plans to increase its share of the DJ from 24.5 % to 26.85 %, so that he has more than 60 % in Neue GmbH together with the Periodica Foundation. Eva Dichnd moved her shares to Alta GmbH at the end of 2022, whereby according to the application to the Federal Competition Authority should increase from 24.5 % to 37.36 %.

challenges and transformation

These developments reflect a significant change in the media industry. According to Springer , the change of media companies is initiated by both institutional and technological forces. Technological progress not only changes products and services, but also internal structures and organizational coordination within media companies. This transformation brings new challenges, including new forms of work and structural changes.

The interaction of these forces creates a new economic field of action that offers the media company expanded opportunities, but also restrictions. In this context, the merging of print and digital content in the new holding is seen as a strategic step to meet the challenges of the modern media landscape.