carisoprodol . this article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in finnish . march 2015 click show for important translation instructions . view a machine translated version of the finnish article . google s machine translation is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the english wikipedia . do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality . if possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article . after translating translated fi sanoma must be added to the talk page to ensure copyright compliance . for more guidance see wikipedia translation . sanoma corporation type julkinen osakeyhti traded as nasdaq helsinki saa1v industry media founded 1999 headquarters helsinki finland key people jaakko rauramo chairman harri pekka kaukonen president and ceo products magazines and press distribution publishing revenue 2.761 billion 2010 1 operating income 392.7 million 2010 1 profit 299.6 million 2010 1 total assets 3.203 billion end 2010 1 total equity 1.376 billion end 2010 1 number of employees 15 405 fte end 2010 1 divisions sanoma media finland sanoma learning & literature website www.sanoma.com sanoma corporation finnish sanoma oyj formerly sanomawsoy is a leading media group in the nordic countries with operations in over 10 european countries based in helsinki . the group is also among the top five european magazine publishers and has a strong position in finland as well as in belgium 2 croatia the czech republic 3 denmark estonia hungary latvia lithuania the netherlands russia serbia slovakia and until 2015 in ukraine . 4 contents 1 history 2 profile 2.1 divisions 3 references 4 external links history edit sanomawsoy was formed in 1999 with the merger of sanoma corporation wsoy werner s derstr m osakeyhti ; werner s derstr m corporation and helsinki media company . 5 the group reverted to the name sanoma corporation in october 2008 . 6 on 5 march 2012 the group announced that it had sold r kioski a finland based finnish baltic kiosk chain with 1 048 outlets to norway s reitan group for roughly 1 billion norwegian krone . the group had been working on the purchase for a decade but previous negotiations had stranded as sanoma had demanded a merger where they owned 51 percent . the purchase brought the reitan group to 2 500 kiosk outlets making it the second largest kiosk group in europe . 7 profile edit the group has an annual turnover of 2.761 billion euros 1 and employed over 15 400 people on a full time equivalent basis at the end of 2010 . sanoma s stock is listed on the helsinki stock exchange . its biggest owners include aatos erkko and other members of the erkko family . the newspaper helsingin sanomat that was founded in 1889 as p iv lehti is one of the single most significant products of the group . divisions edit the company consists of two divisions 8 sanoma media magazine publishing newspaper publishing printing tv radio online gaming services and other online operations . it was formed by the merger of former sanoma magazines sanoma news and sanoma entertainment divisions . sanoma learning & literature educational publishing publishing and business information and services previously sanoma had the trade division which consisted of tasks including kiosk operations press distribution bookstores and entertainment . references edit a b c d e f g annual results 2010 . sanoma corporation . retrieved 9 february 2011 . bart van besien 29 october 2010 . the case of belgium . media policies and regulatory practices in a selected set of european countries the eu and the council of europe pdf . athens the mediadem consortium . retrieved 2 january 2015 . sanoma magazines praha acquired 9 % share of the leading press distribution company in czech republic . sanoma . 10 december 2002 . retrieved 8 april 2016 . sanoma closes down operations in ukraine interfax ukraine 17 november 2014 media in finland . university network for communication studies . retrieved 3 october 2013 . sanomawsoy becomes sanoma 1 october 2008 press release . sanoma corporation . 2 april 2008 . retrieved 25 july 2009 . blir europas nest st rste kioskselskap . dagens n ringsliv in norwegian . 5 march 2012 . archived from the original on 5 march 2012 . retrieved 5 march 2012 . group structure . sanoma corporation . retrieved 25 july 2009 . external links edit official website v t e omx helsinki 25 companies of finland cargotec elisa fortum kemira kesko kone konecranes metso neste nokia nokian tyres nordea orion corporation outokumpu outotec pohjola bank rautaruukki sampo sanoma stora enso talvivaara mining company teliasonera upm w rtsil yit retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sanoma & oldid 741741177 categories 1999 establishments in finlandcompanies established in 1999publishing companies established in 1999companies based in helsinkicompanies listed on the helsinki stock exchangemedia companies of finlandnewspaper companiesmagazine publishing companiesmedia in helsinkihidden categories cs1 norwegian language sources no articles to be expanded from march 2015all articles to be expandedarticles needing translation from finnish wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutscheesti fran aisbahasa indonesialatvie unederlandsportugu srom n suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 10 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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