Financial Times Deutschland

The Financial Times Germany (FTD ) was a publicly -weekly business newspaper and sister publication of the Financial Times (FT ), headquartered in Hamburg, in the possession of the publishing house Gruner Jahr ( G J) and thus was indirectly majority owned by the media group Bertelsmann AG. They last reached a paid circulation of 102,101 copies, including 46 284 in-flight copies. Since its inception, the business newspaper made ​​through only losses. On 7 December 2012, the newspaper was published for the last time after the From the sheet was announced in November 2012.

Newspaper profile

The Financial Times Germany newspaper consisted of four books: business, politics, finance and agenda (the latter containing the elements of commentary, analysis, sports, culture and "Out of Office ", a kind of colorful side ). In Friday's edition, a fifth book was added (Weekend ), which has since been integrated into the agenda - part. There were also distributed throughout the year approximately 100 special supplements with a special focus topic ( financial or economic issues, representation of an economic region ). Additionally, the founders of the FTD magazine Enable and luxury magazine How to spend it totaled monthly.

Externally the FTD differed from other German papers, because it was printed on salmon-colored paper, the color a touch darker than the failed also salmon-colored British Financial Times. The unusual color paper had their publishers introduced in 1893 to lift the newspaper of competing blades.

Since early 2001, the FTD was regional official journal of the eight German stock exchanges, and a renowned publication organ for statutory filings of listed companies.

History

The first edition of the Financial Times Germany appeared on 21 February 2000 under the supervision of the British founding chief editor Andrew Gowers and management of Michael Rzesnitzek. In October 2001, Andrew Gowers moved to the top of the Financial Times ( FT) in London, after which he was followed by Christoph Keese and Wolfgang Münchau as chief editors. Münchau changed in the summer of 2003 as a columnist for the FT to London. The FTD made ​​in September 2002 for attention and criticism, as they - as is common in the Anglo -Saxon press - before the federal election in 2002, a recommendation to vote uttered: It recommended to choose the CDU. Also in September 2005, it issued a recommendation to vote, this time in favor of the FDP.

In May 2004, Keese joined as the new editor in chief to the world on Sunday; his successor was on 1 August 2004 Steffen Klusmann. From 1 February 2003 ICE travelers were given a free daily newspaper in the first class with the FTD compact. The twelve-page sheet was printed in an edition of 8,000 copies and delivered in the morning at twelve stations in 130 ICE trains. 2005 joined the founding CEO Michael Rzesnitzek the British parent publishing company. A year later, the newspaper reached a sold daily circulation of over 100,000 copies for the first time.

On 1 March 2007, Christoph Rüth sole manager of the Financial Times Germany (FTD ). Previously, he shared the post with Christoph Zellweger, who became the Managing Director of New Media Ventures GmbH, a subsidiary G J, appointed on 1 March 2007.

By 2008, the FTD was a joint venture of the publishing house Gruner Jahr and the British Pearson Publishing Group (Financial Times ). On 1 January 2008 took over Gruner Jahr 50 percent FTD shares of the Pearson Publishing Group, and thus became the sole owner. The newspaper slammed the Gruner Jahr business media, which included yet the magazines Capital, Exchange Online and impulses.

In November 2008, Gruner Jahr decided to merge the editors of the four business titles. There was a chief editor College under the direction of FTD chief editor Steffen Klusmann furnished. A few months later, the change of CEO Christoph Rüth to Axel Springer AG was announced. CEO of Gruner Jahr business media was Ingrid M. Haas. In the European elections in Germany in 2009, FTD issued a recommendation to vote for the Alliance 90/The Greens. For the general election in the same year, she recommended the Union, as a wish -Green coalition was called. The online presence was revised in September 2009.

On November 23, 2012, management of the publishing house Gruner Jahr announced adjust the newspaper for economic reasons. The last edition of the paper was published on 7 December 2012. More than 300 employees lost their jobs. The homepage www.ftd.de was called up in October 2013 and showed content from the final issue of the newspaper. With the shutdown of the website and the online archive was turned off. The Financial Times Germany in 2012 allegedly made ​​a loss of about 10 million euros since 2000 and a loss of more than 250 million euros.

Edition: used copies

The circulation, the total number of copies sold on average per issue ( newsstand sales, subscriptions, flight copies and others gave away copies) rose from just under 67,000 in the third quarter of 2000 to more than 100,000 in 2004 and then remained at this level.

Although it maintained the circulation to last over the 100,000 mark, the number of specimens for which the publisher (via subscriptions or retail sales ) got money, took off though. Conversely, the number of board gave away copies increased from around 20,000 in 2004 to 46,000 in the third quarter of 2012.

Edition: Subscriptions

Subscriptions mean other than flight copies for the publisher sales revenue. The number of copies sold on average per output Subscription reached in 2004, the 60.000er brand, but increased up to the third quarter of 2012 to 41 629 copies back from.

The decreasing number of subscriptions illustrates the decreasing economic success of FTD.

Publisher and owner

The FTD was published by G J Business Media GmbH & Co. KG. This company is 100 percent owned by Gruner Jahr AG & Co. KG. The publishing house belongs again to 74.9 percent of Bertelsmann AG, and 25.1 percent of the descendants of John year that hold a blocking stake in making important decisions.

Documentation

• FTD: The death of a newspaper. NDR from December 12, 2012 (video, 28 minutes)