Talpa ceases hunting for TMG

- Media company Talpa of John de Mol looks down on his offer to the Telegraaf Media Group, publisher of, among others, The Telegraaf.

That says Talpa Holding Wednesday evening. Media company TMG is taken over by the Belgian publisher Mediahuis that was involved in a bidding struggle with Talpa in recent months.

The notice period for Talpa's public bid on all issued ordinary shares in TMG ended today, August 9.

Talpa had a total of 607. 320 TMG shares were reported. The group has less than 50% of all TMG pieces.