The works council at the NRC newspaper have backed a takeover by a investment fund Egeria and tv company Het Gesprek.

Egeria is an investment arm of the wealthy Brenninkmeijer family, which owns the C&A clothing retail group. Het Gesprek is partly owned by Derek Sauer, who founded the Moscow Times.
The NRC is currently part of Persgroep Nederland and has a workforce of some 300 people. The competition authority NMa ordered the sale because Persgroep Nederland currently owns all but one of the country’s national daily papers.