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Strengholt BV, started in 1928 as a publisher of books and magazines, is an international media and entertainment company.
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Strengholt BV, started in 1928 as a publisher of books and magazines, is an international media and entertainment company.
In 1971 Strengholt relocated its head office from the Leidsegracht in Amsterdam to Naarden and established itself in the monumental ‘Oud-Bussem’ Hofstede. This extensive complex, with the largest thatched roof in the Netherlands, was built between 1903 and 1906 and for the first 50 years it was used as a hygienic milking parlour. The architects Berlage and Dudok considered it to be the best work of master builder K.P.C. de Bazel (1869–1923). The ‘Oud-Bussem’ Hofstede is now a listed building.
Strengholt Music Group has been one of the largest independent music publishers in the Benelux for more than 50 years.[ citation needed ]
The group's activities include the leasing of music rights(copyrights), publishing (sheet) music, and exclusively representing foreign and Dutch music publishers such as Stage Entertainment, NOS and MTV Networks.
The catalogue of the Strengholt Music Group includes evergreens, national and international hits by Chuck Berry, Jan Smit, Belinda Meuldijk (Rob de Nijs), Emile Hartkamp (Frans Bauer), Piet Souer, Ferry Corsten, Showtek, Markus Schulz, Paul Elstak, Peter van Asten and Laurens van Rooyen. [1]
As the owner of Dureco, among the oldest record labels in the Netherlands, the Strengholt Music Group is involved in leasing music productions. This catalogue includes Vader Abraham, Corry & de Rekels, Jacques Herb, Intwine, De Kermisklanten, Anita Meyer, Mieke, Benny Neyman and many more. [2]
In July 2023, CTM Outlander announced that it would acquire Strengholt Music Group. [3]
Strengholt Entertainment sells and distributes media products to retailers. It organise the sale, marketing and distribution of DVDs, Blu-ray, CDs, games and media accessories.[ citation needed ]
Strengholt Connect is an IT and marketing agency. Strengholt Connect develops websites and web shops and manages online marketing for companies. Strengholt Connect was responsible for the development of Free Record Shop [ citation needed ] that went bankrupt in 2014.
Strengholt MultiMedia is a Dutch publisher of special-interest DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.[ citation needed ]
Sport, documentaries, lifestyle, culture and travel, films, war, music, The Royal family, TV series / programmes, nature and animals and historical reviews form part of the diverse catalogue. Sport represents an important element of the catalogue and includes football, cycle racing, skating and hockey.
Of historical significance are the Beeld van Nederland series with the NOS/Polygoon newsreels from 1920 to 2010, De strijd tegen het water and the Koninklijk Huis. The sport DVDs and historical reviews are produced in collaboration with the NOS and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.[ citation needed ]
EMC is both a publisher and distributor of sheet music covering all types of music genres. A variety of songbooks of well-known Dutch artists is also published, including Nick & Simon, Marco Borsato and Boudewijn de Groot.
As a distributor, EMC represents 50 national and international publishing houses.
Strengholt Content focuses on the development of content for new media and television. This business unit develops and creates sponsored format for brands, businesses and organisations by drawing as much effective attention as possible to their products and services. Strengholt Content is responsible for the Beauty+ magazine, a weekly TV programme broadcast by RTL4 with advertisers and sponsors from the beauty sector.[ citation needed ]
The book publishing house is the Strengholt's oldest line of business (1928) and in its long history has managed to build up a diverse list, both in the field of fiction and non-fiction.
The principal list titles cover health, esoteric/parapsychology, history and politics, management and media, nature and animals, children and youngsters, music, culinary art, biographies and novels. In publishes the Dutch translations of The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway), Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach), and The Source (James Michener). In the music book market, it publishes Eenvoudige muziekleer (Hennie Schouten) and Professioneel zingen voor iedereen (Ineke van Doorn).
As a publisher of magazines and specials, Strengholt Magazines publishes the magazine Beauty+ to which medical specialists contribute. Beauty+ focuses on cosmetic treatments, skin and hair care, anti-aging and wellness.[ citation needed ]
Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong was a Dutch politician and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the now-defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP), later merged into the current-day Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Tornados. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch chart, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States chart, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. During their career they had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts and released 25 studio albums.
The Dutch public broadcasting system is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) foundation, which acts as its governing body, and a number of public broadcasters. The Dutch Media Act 2008 regulates how air time is divided and puts the administration of the public broadcasting system in the hands of the NPO Board of Directors.
Philips Wouwerman was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes.
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
Luv' were a Dutch girl group that scored a string of hit records in Continental Europe as well as Israel, South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Argentina and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The original members were Patty Brard, José Hoebee and Marga Scheide. In 1979, Luv' was 'Holland's best export act' and thus received the 'Conamus Export Prize'.
DPG Media Group is a Belgian media company also active in the Netherlands and Denmark. It is owned by the Van Thillo family and employs some 6,000 people.
"Welcome To My Party" is the fourteenth single by the Dutch girl group Luv', released in the autumn of 1989 by Dureco/High Fashion records. This song appears on the 1989 EP For You and is the group's comeback record since their 1981 single Tingalingaling. It was recorded by a line-up consisting of Marga Scheide and two new members, Michelle Gold and Diana van Berlo.
Anna Maria Agnes "Agnes" van Ardenne-Van der Hoeven is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator.
Andy Tielman was an influential Indo (Eurasian) artist, recognised as the "godfather" of Indorock, the style of rock and roll played by Indo artists in the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered one of the most important figures in Dutch popular music, and "defied the notion that early rock and roll was a phenomenon of white and black musicians from America".
The Courtyard of a House in Delft is a 1658 painting in the National Gallery, London made in the Dutch Golden Age by Pieter de Hooch. The painting portrays domestic architecture typical of de Hooch's middle period; the details and textures of the building and courtyard are given as much or more of the artist's attention as the people. It is signed and dated to the left on the archway "P.D.H. / A 1658".
Jasper Schade (1623–1692), was a Dutch representative to the States-General who is best known today for his portrait by Frans Hals.
Group Portrait of an Unknown Family or Company (1658–1660) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is part of the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room (1658) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch; it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the Royal Collection, and on display at the Queen's Gallery in London.
Company in a Courtyard Behind a House (1663–1665) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum.
Young Woman with a Letter and a Messenger in an Interior (1670) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.
Dureco is a Dutch independent record label based in the Netherlands. Over the years many artists and groups such as the Amboina Serenaders, Judy Cheeks, Jules de Corte, De Dijk, Jef Elbers, Gotcha!, Samantha Jones, Ming Luhulima, the Mena Moeria Minstrels, Liz Mitchell, Julian Sas, Luv', Roger Peterson and Rene van Helsdingen have had their work released through Dureco.
Cécile Dreesmann was a Dutch textile artist known for her innovative embroidery. She was particularly fond of working with silk, adding precious or semi-precious stones to the work of thread, creating volumes, like thread sculpture. She always defended embroidery as a form of personal art, in which everyone has to find their own way. She also published a number of books on textile art. She was a member of the wealthy Dutch Dreesmann family, connected to the Vroom & Dreesmann department stores.
Portrait of a Dutch Family is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted c. 1635 and now in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati.