The story after 1980

  • 1980 Norges Handels og Sjøfartstidende changes over to a tabloid format and starts to report on the whole of Norwegian industry, rather than focusing on shipping primarily.
  • 1984 Kaare Valebrokk is appointed Editor-in-chief.
  • 1987 The name ”Norges Handels og Sjøfartstidende” is changed to ”Dagens Næringsliv”.
  • 1989 The TDN news agency is launched.
  • 1990 Dagens Næringsliv (DN) is 100 years old. The shipping newspaper TradeWinds is established.
  • 1991 DN’s Saturday edition, DN-lørdag, is relaunched.
  • 1993 TDN Power is launched.
  • 1996 A weekly newspaper, Upstream, is launched. This is particularly aimed at the oil & gas and related industries.
  • 1997 NHST established in Singapore.
  • 1998 DN’s circulation exceeds 60,000 for the first time. DN launches Magasinet (the magazine). NHST buys the Fiskaren newspaper.
  • 1999 Kaare Valebrokk resigns to become head of TV2 and Amund Djuve is appointed the Editor-in-chief of Dagens Næringsliv.
  • 2000 Gunnar Bjørkavåg becomes the new Chief Executive Officer. DN.no and TradeWinds.no are launched.
  • 2001 Dagens Næringsliv is re-designed. Fiskaren and IntraFish merges and NHST becomes a 60 % owner. The online newspaper Upstreamonline.com is launched. TDN Power changes its name to Europower.
  • 2002 Intrafish, a monthly newspaper, is launched.
  • 2003 Europower starts to publish a monthly newspaper.
  • 2004 Further strengthening of international network. Offices in Shanghai, New Delhi and Dubai established.
  • 2005 NHST buys Smartcom, a web-TV company. Europower buys Energi Forlag and Energi, a monthly magazine. Upstream makes a profit for the first time. NHST buys Business, an IT newspaper, and relaunches it under the name of Dagens it .
  • 2007 IntraFish acquires Heighway seafood titles from Informa (London) and becomes the world’s largest seafood and fishing news organization. The high-gloss magazine D2 launched with great response. Instream OY is acquired (Espoo).
  • 2008 NHST acquires the majority in Newsdesk (Stockholm).
  • 2009 NHST launches Recharge.