2000 Wann & Wo is now additionally published on Wednesdays, including the print version of the .com sites.
In March, Teleport launches 1036hallo! as a private telephony provider.
2002 Reorientation of NEUE as a "boulevard family newspaper" under editor Robert Thoma.
Dr. Christian Ortner follows Kurt Horwitz as editor-in-chief of Vorarlberger Nachrichten. Horwitz remains chief editor and moves to the editorial office in Vienna.
2003 5 year anniversary of Antenne, celebrated by a two-day rock and pop event.
2005 Vorarlberger Medienhaus acquires a 100% stake in Germany-based Quoka, a publishing house headquartered in Lampertheim, near Mannheim
At the end of May, Vorarlberger Medienhaus presents the new business and lifestyle magazine "kontur".
In June the VN-insert "Immobilien" is transformed to small format and is renamed as "Leben & Wohnen".
On the 20th of July, the glossy magazine WEEK Vorarlberg is published for the first time. The magazine, with an editorial focus on people, lifestyle and trends, is published every two weeks with a circulation of 134.000 copies delivered to almost all households in Vorarlberg. The regional infotainment web portal VOL celebrates its 10th anniversary in early October.
On the 16th of November, Vorarlberger Nachrichten celebrates its 60th anniversary. Readers of the VN get insight into the newspaper "today and yesterday" through an anniversary issue and a very successful open day.
2006 Quoka acquires publishing house AVIS. Thus, Quoka's strong growing classifieds web portal is expanded on a national scale.
Publishing companies Quoka, "Such&Find" and "das inserat" start an online operation to become Germany's largest classified website. The companies bundle their online activities and thus underline their claim to be a national player.
On the 7th of June, the company's flagship newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten was awarded "Newspaper of the Year" at the 59th world congress of newspapers in Moscow.
Mr. Helmar Hipp becomes managing director of Eugen Russ Vorarlberger Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH. Mr. Hipp is responsible for the company's business in Germany as well as its online expansion.
Eugen A. Russ becomes a minority shareholder in Liechtensteiner Volksblatt AG, publisher of the "Liechtensteiner Volksblatt".
2007 On the 9th of September, Sunday newspaper "Neue am Sonntag" is published for the first time. The weekly newspaper is positioned in the market as a self-contained brand.
At the end of 2007, VM Group launches the wholly owned investment subsidiary VM Digital in order to speed up the increase of its online businesses.
2010 With VOLmobil, the Vorarlberger Medienhaus is the first regional provider of mobile telephony and reseller for the Apple iPhone.
VOL is the first german-speaking newsportal-App for the Apple iPad and is released even before the iPad is officially available in Austria.
2011 For the first time, the Vorarlberger Nachrichten are published multimedia on the iPad.
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