Metro International is a Swedish media company based in Luxembourg that publishes the Metro newspapers. Metro International's advertising sales have grown at a compound annual growth rate of 41% since launch of the first newspaper edition in 1995.blank">http://hugin.info/132142/R/1125327/208539.pdf
The company was founded by Pelle Andersson and started as a subsidiary of the _Modern Times Group along with Viasat Broadcasting. It is now controlled through investment company Kinnevik. The first newspaper edition was published and distributed for the Metro Stockholm in the Stockholm Metro.