The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe is allowed to acquire the Westfälische Medien Holding AG (WMH) take overlike that Federal Cartel Office announced. The President of the Federal Cartel Office, Andreas Mundt, said the project was harmless from a competition perspective because the distribution areas of the publishers involved would not overlap, according to a statement. “The companies are therefore not in direct competition either on the reader markets or on the relevant advertising markets.”

With the purchase, the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe will, according to its own information, become the largest-circulation daily newspaper publishing group in North Rhine-Westphalia. The companies involved had theirs Plans announced in early March. The agreement provides that takeover of all WMH shares by the media group. No further details about the transaction were disclosed.

They belong to the WMH Westphalian Newsthe Westfalen-Blattthe Münster newspaperthe Westphalian Volksblatt and the General newspaper Coesfeld.