"20 minutes" daily newspaper will bloom from march in Angers city

The Angers inhabitants will get from mid march a new newspaper. "20 minutes", the first free national newspaper, will touch Angers as well as 12 new French cities, among them Le Mans and Orléans (there is yet an regional edition in Nantes and Rennes) and will so achiev the level of 31 editions in France, Spain and Switzerland.That daily will be available in many public places (like La Tribune d'Angers, a weekly newspaper) : railway station, car parks or cultural institutions.

While "20 minutes" will not have a local editorial office in Angers, it will nevertheless cover the local news in many fiels : politics, economy, culture and so. The local editions of the daily are also on the web. The costs of "20 minutes" are entirely financed by ads.

The daily newspaper was launched in 1999 par a Norwegian company, Schibsted. Its format is 23,8 x32,2 cm (also called half-berliner). Thanks to that expansion of its geograpical distribution, "20 minutes" will be present in four French cities about five ranging 200 000 inhabitants and more. The next step of the daily could lead it till 51 local editions in France.