Based in Düsseldorf, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH is one of Germany's leading media houses for business and finance. Founded in 1946 with the launch of Handelsblatt newspaper, the group today publishes its flagship business daily in addition to magazines (chief among them WirtschaftsWoche), specialist journals and professional books, and high-quality online resources. Since the late 1960s, the group has been part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group.
The Handelsblatt publishing group owes its beginnings to a British license granted in 1946 for the publication of a business and finance newspaper. The company’s days as purely a print publisher are now long gone. Incorporated as Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH in 1991, it is today a media company working in and across multiple media. Its mission statement is to consistently provide high-quality, up-to-date business and finance information, taking advantage of all media opportunities. Its staff of some 550 journalists ensure a high level of business expertise.
Seven specialist publishing housesIn addition to its renowned publications
Handelsblatt and
WirtschaftsWoche, the Handelsblatt publishing group is known for its authoritative specialist media companies. These include the specialist publisher Fachverlag der Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, Lebensmittel Praxis Verlag (specializing in food and drink), retail publisher BBE Verlag, language publisher Spotlight Verlag, Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag for business, law and tax, humanities publisher J.B. Metzler Verlag, and corps (Corporate Publishing Services). These companies publish specialist information for business practitioners, offering everything from legal and fiscal information to management, IT and marketing know-how through to customized publishing. The 60 titles of this group account for more than one million copies sold in each publication period. Economy.one is the online division of the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt and manages the internet gateways handelsblatt.com, wiwo.de and karriere.de. Handelsblatt publishing group also has its own marketing organization, iq media-marketing GmbH.
The following titles and subsidiary companies are key members of Handelsblatt publishing group:
- Handelsblatt
- WirtschaftsWoche
- JUNGE karriere
- fivetonine, NEW INVESTOR
- Fachverlag der Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt
- Lebensmittel Praxis Verlag
- BBE Verlag
- Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag
- Spotlight Verlag
- J. B. Metzler Verlag
- corps
- BELLEVUE AND MORE
- iq media marketing
The Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt has tapped into the strategically important Eastern European Market with their controlling interest in the Polish economic and finance portal Money.pl. Strong brands form the image of the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt and possess a high degree of notoriety. The Group continues to invest in these strong brands as well as further develop the broadness and quality of the scope of information.
The Group
