The Edipresse Group is a media and communications company headquartered in Switzerland. The Group is active in newspapers, magazines and electronic publishing. It publishes over 180 titles and websites, and employs 2,800 people. Edipresse is present in 15 countries and territories; the company has operations in Switzerland, Spain, France, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Romania and several Asian countries such as China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.

Axel Springer AG was founded in 1946 in Hamburg, Germany. Axel Springer is Germany’s largest newspaper and third-largest magazine publisher as well as one of the leading European media enterprises. Its broad media portfolio encompasses successfully established multimedia brand families such as the BILD- and WELT- Groups. With over 170 newspapers and magazines, more than 50 online activities for different interest groups and information needs, as well as its holdings in television and radio stations, Axel Springer is active in a total of 33 countries and employs more than 10,000 people.

Edipresse A.S. publishes seventhteen titles: the monthly women magazine Avantaje (since 1995), the Romanian edition of ELLE magazine (since 1997), the people magazine Viva! (since 1999) and Viva! Auto, the monthly youth title Popcorn (since 1995), the entertainment magazines Povestea mea (since 1996) and Intamplari Adevarate (since 1997), for interior design and decoration magazine ELLE DECORATION (2006), the shopping magazine Look! (2003), the monthly youth title JOY (since 2004), the practical magazine 'Lucru de mana' (2005), the magazine for the future brides ELLE Mariaj (2007), the magazine for parents and children Baby (2007), the magazine PSYCHOLOGIES (2007), Creativ magazine and the bi-monthly magazine AUTO BILD (2008) .