Perscombinatie and PCM
In 1968 Het Parool started publishing company Perscombinatie ('press combination') with competitor De Volkskrant, mainly to join investment in new printing presses. In 1973 Trouw, also a former resistance-paper, joines the corporation.
At the start of Perscombinatie, Het Parool was the leading paper, but due to declining subscribership, since the early eighties De Volkskrant took over the prime role within the company, although the owner of the paper Stichting Het Parool ('the Parool foundation') remained the majority shareholder, with 57 percent of the shares of Perscombinatie (later: PCM, after a merger with book publisher Meulenhoff). This didn't change when PCM took over fellow Nederlandse Dagbladunie in 1995, publisher of daily newspapers NRC Handelsblad and Algemeen Dagblad, in 1992 to become the biggest publisher in The Netherlands.
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