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  • Rolf Dobelli Co -Founder & Chairman of the Board
  • Thomas Bergen Co -Founder & CEO
  • Patrick Briggerstrasse Co -Founder & CTO

GetAbstract AG is a Swiss commercial abstracting service, which specializes in the summaries of business books and the classics of world literature. Organized in the form of a joint-stock enterprise with head office in Lucerne is a global player and leader in their field. The core market is the U.S., where getAbstract has a subsidiary. Founded in 1999 by Rolf Dobelli getAbstract, Thomas Bergen and Patrick Briggerstrasse.

GetAbstract makes a selection of the most important for their assessment of new releases in the economic sector in terms of criteria applicability, innovation and style. The key messages of these works are summarized in the form of short presentations ( abstracts) on 5 pages. In addition, getAbstract also provides summaries of literature classics from the fields of fiction, philosophy, sociology and economics on 8 pages.

Media companies such as The Financial Times Germany, Swiss Television, Bloomberg Television, The Economist regularly publish reviews of getAbstract. GetAbstract several awards book prizes, of which the getAbstract International Book Award is the highest price. This getAbstract International Book Award has been presented since 2001 by getAbstract every year at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In most cases, two books per year were awarded the prize.

GetAbstract care with individual customers (B2C) and business customers ( B2B) two markets and employs 120 journalists around the world.

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