About us

Company

Origin

EurActiv was set up in 1999. It now involves circa 35 persons, plus subcontractors and partners' staff in Europe. Together with this extended team, ca 60 people contribute to the EurActiv brand.

The team

EurActiv brings together the skills of professionals with experience in EU affairs, journalism, information and communication as well as Internet technology. For its content, EurActiv relies not only on its own editorial team but also on numerous content partnerships, as well as links to the national press and the EU institutions. 

EurActiv is independent. It is not another website of the EU institutions but complements websites like Europa by focusing on non-institutional EU Actors too. In order to provide free services and ensure independence, EurActiv's services are financed from four sources (corporate sponsoring, EurActor membership, online advertising and EU projects).

The shareholders

EurActiv is a UK Public Limited Company, subject to independent external auditing and good corporate governance. A long term venture capital company holds 20% of the shares, but the majority of shares in EurActiv.com PLC are held by team members.

EurActiv.com PLC recorded its best year yet in 2008, a firm base for 2009, its tenth anniversary year.

Sales Revenues

Sales revenues in 2008 were grouped into four main streams:

• Corporate sponsors: 35% of total sales, no single sponsor accounts for more than 5% of sales.
• EurActor™ members: 24% of total sales. Communication package for 120+ consultancies, associations, federations, NGOs and political parties & groups.
• Online advertising: 10% of total sales, including growth of CrossLingual™ campaigns.
• Public projects: 28% of total sales. Mainly with the EU Commission but diversified between different Directorates General. The aim of such projects is to promote EU policy debates or localise policy debates in different languages. EurActiv also helps leaders of other EU projects to communicate their results better. All public projects were won in open competition for public tenders or calls for proposals. EurActiv.com plc receives no subsidies from any EU source. 

None of the revenue streams represent more than 35% of total sales. This balance of public and private revenues, with most contracts for one year or more supports our editorial independence. This wide spectrum of clients further underpins EurActiv’s editorial independence.

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