The APA-Group includes the APA news agency, as well as ten subsidiaries. Its work focuses on the areas of a news agency, photo agency, information management, and information technology. The APA editorial departments supply real-time news service in word, image, graphics, audio and video. The subsidiaries offer dissemination, research, and knowledge management services, as well as information technology solutions. The APA-Group targets its work towards professional users (information managers, PR experts) in the fields of media, politics, public authorities, and economics. APA fulfils its duties independent from the state, governmental, and political party influences and in accordance with the principles of reliability, speed, balanced information and avoidance of any one-sidedness and party influence.
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Subsidiaries and holdings:
APA-DeFacto
APA-IT
APA-OTS
APA-OTS Tourism Press
APA-PictureDesk
Eisenbacher
Keystone
MediaWatch
Polish News Bulletin
APA-BeteiligungsManagement und Nachrichtenagentur-Service
The APA editorial department covers up-to-the minute events 24 hours a day. Its independence, reliability, speed, and balanced reporting, make it to the central instrument for the Austrian media. 100 editors compile 500 articles per day in the fields of foreign policy, national policy, economics, the arts, science, education, media, and sports. APA also provides photo and graphic material. In addition to its headquarters in Vienna, APA operates bureaus across Austria, as well as in the EU-capital Brussels.
APA-Finance observes and analyses the current developments in the finance and capital markets. Background information, researched directly at the trading points, is provided in compliance with the principles of independence, reliability, speed, and balanced reporting to different target groups. In addition to providing up-to-the minute news as well as company profiles, APA-Finance also manages a database offering current and historic stock rates, foreign currency exchange rates, and interest rates.
APA-MultiMedia provides multimedia content and editorial outsourcing, and supplies Austrian web portals and mobile services 24 hours a day with individual content from all areas and spheres of interest. Furthermore, APA-MultiMedia offers specific databases - e.g. for movies and events, photos, interactive graphics, as well as audio and video files.
The APA-DeFacto GmbH is a 100 percent subsidiary of APA - Austria Press Agency, and is the largest media- and special interest database provider in Austria. The pool of data includes more than 90 million documents from 220 sources - among them all APA and international agency reports, APA-OTS Original Text Service, Austrian newspapers, international newspapers, copies of ORF-features, weekly- and monthly magazines, diverse special interest media, as well as special business data, and numerous photo services. Furthermore, APA-DeFacto supplies its customers with tailor-made information solutions - always in accordance with the principles of independence, reliability, speed, and relevance.
The APA-IT Information Technology GmbH is a 100 percent subsidiary of APA - Austria Press Agency. APA-IT is involved with the concept, development, and technical operation of IT solutions for the information and knowledge management of media and media-related applications. APA-IT administers companies in this field, ranging from the development stage and implementation to the servicing of IT systems.
APA-OTS
The APA-OTS Original Text Service is a 100 percent subsidiary of APA - Austria Press Agency. Using the APA channels, APA-OTS disseminates press releases in their original wording to recipients in Austria and other countries. The content is subject to the responsibility of the sender. All OTS-releases are published at http://www.ots.at/ and are archived. APA-OTS also manages the specialized portals http://www.gourmetpresse.at/ and http://www.politikportal.at/, as well as the financial information platform euro adhoc, and the APA-OTS Tourism Press at http://www.tourismuspresse.at/Imagevideo APA-OTS (8 MB)
APA-OTS Tourism Press GmbH is Austria's leading distribution channel for press releases on tourism. As original text information, the content underlies the responsibility of the sender. Tourism information is entered into 1.000 editorial systems in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and is thereby automatically transmitted to the computer screens of 45.000 journalists, all specialized on the fields of economics, tourism, and travel. APA-OTS Tourism Press is a 100 percent subsidiary of APA - Austria Press Agency.
APA-PictureDesk GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of APA - Austria Press Agency, administrates and distributes comprehensive picture databases, which comprise constantly updated national and international images (animated and non-animated, including photos, graphics and videos). Numerous co-operations with international partners have been made and are ongoing for this purpose. Furthermore, APA-PictureDesk creates its own pictures (press, advertising, and industrial photography) for national and international distribution, as well as commissioned productions of photos and graphics.
Eisenbacher Medienbeobachtung (media oberserver) GmbH is a 100 percent subsidiary of APA-Beteiligungsmanagement GmbH (holding management) and offers information search in all established media. 1.800 Austrian print media, as well as features from ten national radio and TV stations are constantly being observed; either topical or by term.
Keystone AG was founded in 1953 and is the exclusive representative of renowned international photographers and the leading news photo, special photo and stock photo agencies in Switzerland. A network consisting of ten regional offices, employing more than 20 full time photographers, as well as numerous free lancers, serves all Swiss newspapers and most of the weekly and monthly magazines, Internet portals, and the Swiss TV network. Among the customers are also a large number of advertising agencies as well as the communication departments of major banks, insurances, service companies, and industrial corporations. Keystone offers news and special topic images, as well as catalogue and history-related photos. Currently more than two million pictures are available in the digital photo database, and an additional 11 million photos are on hand in the archive. Since 01 January 2008, APA has taken over 60 percent of Keystone's shares, 40 percent are held by the Schweizerische Depeschenagentur (sda), the Swiss press agency.
The MediaWatch Institute is owned 100 percent by APA - Austria Press Agency and offers quantitative and qualitative media resonance analyses for PR professionals employed in the fields of economics, politics, and administration - particularly with regard to the areas of communication controlling and issues management. MediaWatch's analyses are based on methods and procedures used in the social sciences, primarily the content analysis of mass media reporting.
Polish News Bulletin Sp.zo.o (PNB) was founded in 1946 as part of the British Embassy in Warsaw. Since 2006 the APA-Beteiligungsgesellschaft has taken over 69.3 percent of PNB. PNB provides embassies with a total of 70 English media summaries every day, as well as special publications. Since the beginning of 2006, the PNB publications are also available to Austrian customers in the APA-DeFacto media database.
APA-BeteiligungsManagement und Nachrichtenagentur-Service
The APA-BeteiligungsManagement und Nachrichtenagentur-Service GmbH (Holding Management), which is also owned 100 percent by APA - Austria Press Agency, administrates holdings and acquisitions.
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