Johan Frederik Wegener began in Apeldoorn with a news and magazine advertising business.

This strongly enforced the position of Wegener on the Dutch media market.

It is the "largest publisher of regional newspapers and door-to-door papers in the Netherlands".

This publisher encompassed twenty regional editions of the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper.

Mecom eventually sold its shares to De Persgroep in 2015 for 245 million euros.