[3] At the end of 2017, represented by the company News and Media Holding,[4] Penta decreased to 40% after the latter company sold a five percent share in the share capital to the majority owner Prvá slovenská investičná skupina.

[6] Founded in mid-January 1993, Sme is published six times a week by Petit Press.

In reaction, a major part of the editorial board, including the editor-in-chief, announced their resignation.

Matúš Kostolný, the departing editor-in-chief, stated: "We are leaving SME and we will try to create a new medium that no one will suspect that it serves someone other than the readers".

[11] Six years after the hostile takeover, Penta Investments group left Petit Press in 2021.