Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

The publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH ( GvH ) is the holding company since 1971. It is one of the largest media companies in Germany with a global presence. Shareholder of the publishing group are siblings Stefan von Holtzbrinck and Monika Schoeller.

History

Beginning as a magazine and book advertising company in 1931

The foundation stone of the publishing group was operated by Georg von Holtzbrinck already since 1931, building a magazine and book advertising business. Its success enabled him in 1936 to the acquisition of the German publishing Expedition ( Devex ) who completed a contract with the German Labor Front ( DAF). His NSDAP membership since 1933 and relations of a relative to the private firm Hitler were doing useful. The Devex took over for two years the distribution of DAF magazines beauty of the work and pleasure and work.

Start-ups and expansions after 1945

When is the denazification in 1948 with a fine of RM 1200, was the foundation for the postwar period in the form of the Stuttgart house library, founded in 1948, held by Georg von Holtzbrinck. It changed its name from about 1959 under German Bücherbund.

From the 1960s, the S. Fischer Verlag and investments in Rowohlt were Earthscan and Kindler Verlag to buy as well as the entry in Saarbrücken and newspaper Handelsblatt - which gave rise to the establishment of the holding company - realized.

Mid -1980s began the expansion in the English-speaking countries, initially the United States ( with the acquisition of publishers Scientific American and Henry Holt ), the acquisition of the remaining 33 percent of the Random House by the New York Times in 1984 and since the mid- 1990s years by the corporate takeover Macmillan Publishers ( with the well-known journal Nature ) in the countries of the Commonwealth, as well as in the markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The German Bücherbund was sold to increased investment in electronic media.

Sought in 2002, the publishing group to a merger with Berlin media, but which was prohibited in 2003. In October 2005, the company decided to sell the shares in the Berliner Verlag ( Publishing House of the Berliner Zeitung ).

The Group bought on January 3, 2007, StudiVZ Ltd. .. A press spokesman said, the price lies " about 50 million euros, but well below 100 million," what many media doubted. According to Der Spiegel were paid " about 100 million euros ." According to Focus, Axel Springer AG have commanded even still 120 million euros in the last minute.

In July 2007, the Internet subsidiary Holtzbrinck eLab GmbH bought the Internet portals Netdoktor.de and Golem.de the Story in New Window group of the German newspaper Holding BV. Previously Helpster.de had already been acquired. In the same year Holtzbrinck involved over Holtzbrinck Ventures also to the Startup TopTarif Internet GmbH, an online comparison site for gas, electricity and motor vehicles.

Also in 2007 was epubli.de founded a subsidiary with or epubli and entered in the Commercial Register of Berlin, which occurs as a service for self-published media or as a self-publishing platform. This company offers, electronically transmitted Complete Book lyrics for the self-published as a print -on-demand, as an e -book or publish directly online. The Holtzbrinck Networks GmbH, with 69 per cent majority shareholder at the epubli GmbH.

Restructuring in 2009

On June 1, 2009, there was within the publishing group to a major restructuring. Dieter von Holtzbrinck, until then one of the three involved in each case with one-third of the GvH shareholder, sold his shares to the two other shareholders, Stefan von Holtzbrinck and Monika Schoeller. In return, Dieter von Holtzbrinck acquired several subsidiaries of GvH, especially from the newspaper sector, and bundled them into a new private company, Dieter von Holtzbrinck GmbH Media ( DvH media). These include:

  • The Tagesspiegel Group
  • The Handelsblatt publishing group, with the exception of three small publishers in the subgroup Handelsblatt publishing house that do not produce newspapers: the publisher of the journal Food practice book publisher Poeschel and language Publisher Spotlight
  • 50 percent of the time publishing ( weekly newspaper Die Zeit ) and its operational management. The other 50 % will remain with the GvH.
  • The advertising sales iq media marketing gmbh, the further is but also worked for the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck
  • 50 percent of the economic database GBI Genios ( the other partner here, as previously, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH ).

Divisions

The publishing group is organized as follows:

Holtzbrinck Digital is again divided into three areas:

  • Holtzbrinck Digital Strategy: buecher.de, gutefrage.net, Money.pl, MyHammer, eHarmony, TopTarif
  • Holtzbrinck Digital Incubation: epubli, GLG, habustorta.hu, NetDoktor, Simfy, Tutoria
  • Holtzbrinck Digital Services: devbliss, Search Metrics, mailandsale, Local Performance, Refined Labs, healthier

Finally Holtzbrinck Digital is involved in the independent venture capitalists Holtzbrinck Ventures.

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