Faithful to its promise of transparency and as it does every year at the same time,
Le Canard enchaîné
details in this Wednesday's edition its results in 2019. For the first time in its history, the newspaper closed the exercise in the red, weighed down by the claims of distributor Presstalis whose liquidation this year weighed on the accounts of many newspapers.
The satirical weekly shows a slight loss of just over 30,000 euros (0.16% of its revenues which amounted to just over 21 million euros) against a profit of 1.4 million euros. euros in 2018. Without the charges related to Presstalis, equivalent to 1.4 million euros, the newspaper would have been profitable, even if its sales fell (-15,700 per week, to 322,820 copies).
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The biggest drop took place in the second half of the year due to the transport strike which affected the Relay network
", specifies the palmipede, who adds that the number of its subscribers has fallen slightly (-2.4% to 73,667) .
The financial situation should remain difficult in 2020, again because of Presstalis which will have cost the weekly more than 3.2 million euros in two years.
Without forgetting the health crisis: the first confinement lowered number sales by more than 20% in the first half of the year, while
Le Canard
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made the choice to maintain all the salaries of its staff
", without resorting to partial unemployment .
"A feather in the digital world"
The title is however pleased to have gained 14% additional subscribers in the first half of 2020. It now has more than 82,800.
After having experimented - more quickly than wished but necessity prevailing - digital broadcasting during confinement,
Le Canard enchaîné
resolves to accelerate its digital transition with the upcoming launch of a new site which will be "
more complete, easier to use. access and more user-friendly
”.