B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP

Shareholders of B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP

No shareholder of B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP (KvK 27037499) is disclosed in any public source located for this profile, and none is held on this profile. The provider record for this company contains no shareholder rows at all; in their place it stores a standard message stating that Dutch shareholder information is filed with the Chamber of Commerce and the UBO register. That is a "no data held" marker, not a filing, and it must not be read as evidence that the company has no shareholders.

The position in the Netherlands is that a B.V. keeps a shareholders’ register at the company itself and it is not a public document. The Handelsregister publishes the identity of a sole shareholder of a B.V., but the extract that would show it is a paid KvK product and could not be obtained for this profile. No shareholding percentage, share class or filing date for KvK 27037499 could therefore be established, and none is stated here.

What the company itself publishes about its ownership is that ANP was bought in 2021 by the Dutch investor Chris Oomen, who is described on ANP’s own press-material page, in a caption dated 6 July 2021, as "eigenaar van het ANP" (owner of ANP). ANP’s frequently-asked-questions page repeats that he is the current owner. These are the company’s statements about the ANP business as a whole. They are not a filed shareholder record, they do not name the entity that holds the shares in KvK 27037499, and no percentage is attached to them. The sequence of earlier changes of ownership is set out in the group-structure section.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No ultimate beneficial owner of KvK 27037499 could be verified. The Dutch UBO register has been closed to the general public since the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling of 22 November 2022 in joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20, and access is now limited to competent authorities and parties able to demonstrate a legitimate interest. No UBO extract was obtained and none is reproduced here.

Chris Oomen is named by ANP as the owner of ANP, but that statement is not a beneficial-ownership filing, does not identify the legal entity through which any interest is held and carries no percentage, so it is not published here as a verified UBO. No effective ownership percentage has been calculated, because the ownership chain is not disclosed.

Data availability

Shareholder and beneficial-ownership information for this company is Restricted: the information exists in the Dutch commercial register and the UBO register, but neither is openly accessible, and the KvK extract that would carry it is a paid product. A search of Dutch official publications found no ACM merger-control notice naming this company; that search form was first shown to work by returning five ACM concentration notices for a control term, so the nil result is a real absence rather than a broken query, and it most likely means the transactions concerned were below the notification thresholds rather than that they did not happen.

Sources

• ANP, "Persmateriaal ANP", www.anp.nl/persmateriaal-anp, photo caption dated 6 July 2021, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, "Veelgestelde vragen", www.anp.nl/veel-gestelde-vragen, undated, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK), www.kvk.nl, registry source recorded on this profile, feed synchronised 25 September 2026, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Official publications of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Staatscourant), SRU search interface, repository.overheid.nl/sru, searched 28 September 2026
• Court of Justice of the European Union, judgment of 22 November 2022 in joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20 (WM and Sovim SA), curia.europa.eu, 22 November 2022

Directors and officers of B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP

No director or officer of B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP (KvK 27037499) is disclosed on this profile: the provider record holds no officer rows, only a message asserting that officer data "is not available for this jurisdiction". That assertion is wrong for the Netherlands and should not be relied on. The Dutch Handelsregister does record the directors (bestuurders) of a B.V., the date each appointment took effect and the authority each holds to represent the company, and KvK supplies that information in its Handelsregister extract. The extract is a paid product rather than a free lookup, which is why it is absent here — the data exists and is filed, it was simply not purchased.

No appointment or resignation date for any registered director of KvK 27037499 could therefore be established, and no statutory director is named on this profile.

Separately from the register, ANP publishes the names and titles of its own senior management. Its press-material page, retrieved on 28 September 2026, carries dated captions identifying Martha Riemsma as algemeen directeur (general director, caption dated 28 November 2024), Freek Staps as hoofdredacteur (editor-in-chief, captions dated 20 April and 6 June 2021), Gert-Jan Strik as financieel directeur (financial director, caption dated 20 April 2021) and Mark Westerhoff as CTO (caption dated 20 April 2021). A company announcement of 5 May 2026 introduced Sander Stallinga as commercieel directeur (commercial director). An open letter published by ANP on 17 April 2026 refers to Martha Riemsma as "ANP-directeur".

These are management titles published by the company about the ANP business. They are not register entries, and no source reviewed establishes which of these people, if any, is a registered bestuurder of KvK 27037499 as opposed to another company in the same group. They should be treated as the company’s own description of its management, with the dates shown, and not as evidence of statutory office or of authority to bind this legal entity.

Data availability

Officer information for this company is Restricted. The Netherlands publishes directors, effective dates and representation authority in the Handelsregister, but only through a paid KvK extract, which was not available for this profile; nothing free and official was found that lists the registered directors of KvK 27037499. Nationality is Not disclosed — the Dutch register does not publish it, and it has not been inferred from any name, address or place of work. Dates of birth and residential addresses are not published on this profile. The absence of officer data here is a limit on what was retrievable and is not evidence that the company has no directors; a Dutch B.V. must have at least one.

Sources

• ANP, "Persmateriaal ANP", www.anp.nl/persmateriaal-anp, captions dated 20 April 2021, 6 June 2021, 28 November 2024 and 4 May 2026, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, "Sander Stallinga nieuwe commercieel directeur ANP", www.anp.nl/blog/404/sander-stallinga-nieuwe-commercieel-directeur-anp, published 5 May 2026, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, "Ingezonden: ANP staat voor een proportionele, redelijke en eerlijke aanpak van onrechtmatig gebruik van foto’s", www.anp.nl/blog/403/ingezonden-brief-villamedia, published 17 April 2026, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK), Handelsregister products and extracts, www.kvk.nl, retrieved 28 September 2026

Group structure of B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP

B.V. Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ANP (KvK 27037499) is part of a corporate group and is not an independent company. Its own general terms of 3 November 2023 define "ANP" as this company "and/or its group companies" (groepsmaatschappijen), which is the company’s own confirmation that a group exists.

The corporate-linkage data held on this profile is a seven-node tree with a maximum depth of four levels, in which this company sits at the third level and is flagged as the selected entity. The tree places PAN Beheer B.V. (KvK 82871957) at the top, ANP Holding B.V. (KvK 27301154) beneath it, and three entities under ANP Holding B.V.: this company, ANP Pers Support B.V. (KvK 27243089) — itself shown above ANP Pers Support Benelux B.V. (KvK 59552476) — and NBXimage B.V. (KvK 98123386). Videonieuwsbericht B.V. (KvK 67135250) is shown directly beneath this company. No ownership or voting percentage is attached to any node in that tree, and none is published here.

Two of those relationships are corroborated by sources outside the provider data and the rest are not. ANP’s own privacy statement, retrieved on 28 September 2026, states that "het ANP" is the besloten vennootschap ANP Holding B.V., registered in the Handelsregister under number 27301154 and keeping office at Prinses Beatrixlaan 582 in The Hague — the same address as this company. That confirms the identity, registration number and role of the holding entity, though it is a data-protection notice rather than an ownership filing and states no shareholding. Videonieuwsbericht B.V. is an independently verifiable Dutch company: an EU contract award notice of 10 February 2023 records it under KvK 67135250 at Seinstraat 22-1c, 1223 DA Hilversum, and its own website states that it forms part of ANP Connect, the commercial label used by ANP. That is a self-declared group membership, not a filed shareholding, and it does not establish which entity holds its shares.

PAN Beheer B.V., ANP Pers Support B.V., ANP Pers Support Benelux B.V. and NBXimage B.V. could not be verified from any official source reached for this profile. The brand "ANP Pers Support" is in active commercial use at perssupport.nl, but shared branding is not evidence of corporate ownership. No ownership percentage is disclosed for any entity in the structure, and none has been calculated.

Verified corporate relationships

Recent structural changes

The company’s own published history gives the following sequence. None of it is reproduced from a filing, and each item is the company’s account of the ANP business rather than a recorded transfer of shares in KvK 27037499.

• March 2018 — ANP became part of Talpa Network, the Dutch media company of John de Mol. ANP’s history page and its FAQ both state this; the FAQ dates the change of shareholder to 2018.
• 2018 — shortly after that change, the ANP business acquired the photo agency Hollandse Hoogte. An EU award notice of 15 December 2017 still records Hollandse Hoogte B.V. (KvK 33180162, Zwaardstraat 16, The Hague) as a separate contractor alongside this company, which is consistent with the two being independent at that date. The acquiring legal entity is not identified in any source reviewed.
• 2021 — Talpa Network sold ANP to the investor Chris Oomen. ANP’s press-material page carries a caption dated 6 July 2021 describing him as the owner of ANP, and the FAQ states he is the current owner.

Earlier owners named by the company are NPM Capital and V-Ventures, the investment arm of Vereniging Veronica, following the conversion of the ANP foundation into a B.V. in 2001.

Data availability

Corporate-linkage information for this company is Partial. The Netherlands does not publish share registers, and the KvK extract that would show a sole shareholder is a paid product, so the ownership links between the entities above cannot be confirmed free of charge and no percentage can be given for any of them. A search of Dutch official publications for a merger-control notice naming this company returned nothing; the same search form was first confirmed to work by returning five ACM concentration notices for a control term, so the nil is genuine and most likely reflects that the transactions fell below the notification thresholds. Searches of the EU procurement database returned no notices at all under the registration numbers of PAN Beheer B.V., ANP Pers Support B.V., ANP Pers Support Benelux B.V. or NBXimage B.V.; the same query form returns this company’s own notices under 27037499 and Hollandse Hoogte’s under 33180162, so the nil is a working query, but it shows only that those companies have no EU procurement notices and says nothing about whether they exist or how they are related.

Sources

• ANP, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer, www.anp.nl/disclaimer-en-privacy-statement-anp, undated, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, Algemene Voorwaarden ANP, www.anp.nl/algemene-voorwaarden-anp-november-2023, in force 3 November 2023, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, "Zo ontstond het ANP", www.anp.nl/blog/44/zo-ontstond-het-anp, published 5 December 2019, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, "Veelgestelde vragen", www.anp.nl/veel-gestelde-vragen, undated, retrieved 28 September 2026
• ANP, "Persmateriaal ANP", www.anp.nl/persmateriaal-anp, caption dated 6 July 2021, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Tenders Electronic Daily (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 87270-2023, ted.europa.eu/en/notice/87270-2023, published 10 February 2023, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Tenders Electronic Daily (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 500157-2017, ted.europa.eu/en/notice/500157-2017, published 15 December 2017, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Videonieuwsbericht, company website, www.videonieuwsbericht.nl, undated, retrieved 28 September 2026
• Official publications of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Staatscourant), SRU search interface, repository.overheid.nl/sru, searched 28 September 2026