Ouest-France

Ouest-France is a Journal regional newspaper of the French Written press , sold in the areas of the west of France and with Paris.

History

Ouest-France took the continuation into 1944 of the West-Flash , created the August 2nd 1899, which had been interdict of publication to the Release for Collaboration.

Established historically in the center of Rennes, street of the Pre-Boot, Ouest-France moved its seat, its drafting, its administration and its printing works in August 1972 with Chantepie, in the suburbs of Rennes, street of Breil. It lays out today of a second center of impression with Chevrolière on the site of Tournebride, with a score of kilometers of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).

The newspaper gradually forsook lead to pass to the impression in offset as from 1978. Its first photograph color was published in July 1980. It carried out a pulling to a million specimens for the first time on March 7th, 1993, and several times still since, at the time of great events of topicality.

Since the end of 1997, it appears Sunday, in format Tabloïd, under the title Sunday Ouest-France (9 editions). It is divided into books: “Current events”, “Sports”, “Guide”, “Family”… This Sunday edition is sold with approximately: 300000 specimens.

Diffusion

Ouest-France is the first French daily newspaper in term of diffusion, since 1975. It sells each day close to: 800000 specimens, which places it far in front of its competitors, including the Parisian or national daily newspapers.

It prints each day 40 editions, diffused in three areas, the Brittany, the Pays of the Loire and the Basse-Normandie, is 12 departments. That represents, on average daily, 600 different pages where find place: 120000 lines and approximately: 1500 photographs. With 2,23 million readers, Ouest-France is also the first French-speaking daily of the world.

The total diffusion of Ouest-France is established officially as follows, according to OJD:

Editions

The forty editions are distributed on twelve departments:

Organization

The daily newspaper employs: 1803 people, including 531 professional journalists (a third of women), divided in 63 draftings, including one in Paris. More: 2500 local correspondents supplement a collecting system of information remarkably dense.

Its chairman is François-Governed Hutin. Since November 2006, it has as assistants two delegated general directors: Jean-Paul Butcher (organization) and Philippe Toulemonde (development), which replaces Francis Teitgen, party in spring 2006 following a strategic dissension with François Régis Hutin.

Editor associations

Turnover

The daily newspaper generated a turnover of 349 million euros (344 in 2005). Its pre-tax profits are of 8 million euros (16 million in 2005).

Group

Ouest-France is also in the center of important a press group which joins together four other daily newspapers, of many local weekly magazines through Publihebdos and which has majority stakes in publicity through the company Précom, the free newspapers, the edition of book, posting, the radio, television…

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