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| Company type | Joint-stock |
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| Industry | Publishing,Internet |
| Founded | December 31, 1992 (1992-12-31) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Newspapers, Magazines |
| Revenue | 2,561,074,000 Czech koruna (2020)  |
| −978,763,000 Czech koruna (2020) | |
| −867,755,000 Czech koruna (2020) | |
| Total assets | 3,253,659,000 Czech koruna (2020) |
Number of employees | 1,149 (2020) |
| Parent | Kaprain Chemical, Cyprus |
| Website | mafra |
Mafra is a Czechmedia group that publishesprinted andinternet media, headquartered inPrague,Czech Republic. From 2013 to 2023, it was a subsidiary ofAgrofert holding conglomerate owned by trust ofAndrej Babiš, the formerPrime Minister of the Czech Republic. Mafra owns newspapersMladá fronta Dnes andLidové noviny.[1][2] In September 2023, Agrofert sold the group to the Czech billionaire investor Karel Pražák (Kaprain Group).[3]
Founded in 1992 inPrague, Mafra was acquired in 1994 by the German group Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH (RBDV)[4][5] (the publisher of theRheinische Post), which bought Mafra from French press groupSocpresse. In 2013, Mafra was acquired by Czech holding groupAgrofert, which is owned byAndrej Babiš.[6]
Mafra publishes the daily newspaperMladá fronta Dnes, which – with 224,000 circulation as of March 2011 – is the second largest newspaper in the Czech Republic,[7] aftertabloidBlesk. Fully owned subsidiary Lidové noviny, a.s. publishes daily newspaperLidové noviny with circulation of 44,000,[citation needed] 60% subsidiary Metro Česká republika, a.s. publishes afreesheet Czech edition ofMetro with a circulation of 266,000.[8]
As of February 2011,Mladá fronta Dnes is the third most visited Czech website on the internet, with 3.7 million unique visitors per month.[9]
During theCOVID-19 pandemic, Mafra benefited disproportionately fromstate aid.[10]
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