Gruner + Jahr

Gruner + Jahr
Subsidiary of Bertelsmann
Genre Publishing house
Founded 1965
Founder Henri Nannen
Gerd Bucerius
John Jahr Sr.
Richard Gruner
Headquarters Hamburg, Germany
Area served
 Europe
Key people
 Bernd Klaus Buchholz (CEO)
Torsten-Jörn Klein (head of International Magazines)
Products Newspapers, magazines
Number of employees
 12,500
Subsidiaries Prisma Presse S.N.C. (100%)
Motor Presse Stuttgart (59,9%)
NEWS Publishing Group (56%)
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Website http://www.guj.de/
Headquarters of Gruner + Jahr, seen from the tower of St. Michaelis Church

Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG is Europe's largest printing and publishing firm. It is headquartered in Hamburg.

History

Originally founded on 1 August 1948 as the Henri Nannen publishing house, Gruner + Jahr was created in 1965 from a merger by acquisition, by publishers John Jahr Sr. and Gerd Bucerius joining the printing firm of Richard Gruner. In 1969, Richard Gruner retired, and thanks to the entrepreneurship of Reinhard Mohn, Bertelsmann acquired 25% of the ownership. Over the next fifteen years, the firm grew by expansion, acquisition (publishers Kindler & Schiermeier) and merger (Spiegel Verlag and Motor-Presse Verlag). By 1976, Bertelsmann owned a 74.9% stake, and the Hamburg publishing family Jahr owned 25.1%, a balance which has been maintained through 2007.

In 1978, Gruner + Jahr became the first German publishing house to expand into other European and International markets. Over the next twenty years, publishing houses in France, the USA, and Spain were purchased, and a number of new magazines were started in Germany including Impulse, Schöner Essen, and Gala. In 1990 Gruner + Jahr moved into its new headquarter at Neustadt's Baumwall, a 88,000 m2 (947,000 sq ft) large, metal clad office complex designed by Otto Steidle. In 2005, Gruner + Jahr exited the U.S. magazine business, selling its women's magazine portfolio to the Meredith Corporation and its business magazine portfolio to Mansueto Ventures. In 2005-2006, Gruner + Jahr participated in the Du bist Deutschland marketing campaign.

In 2006, Gruner + Jahr surpassed Hubert Burda Media to become the largest European publisher, based on market share.[1]

Publications

Gruner + Jahr publishes approximately 285 magazines and newspapers in 22 countries, including Poland, Spain, Russia, France and the People's Republic of China. As of 2007, Gruner + Jahr publications include:

  • P.M. Magazin
  • Eltern
  • Eltern Family
  • Capital
  • Unternehmermagazin impulse
  • Art – Das Kunstmagazin

Operations

G+J headquarters, seen from the Elbe river front near Baumwall.

Bernd Kundrun is Chairman of the Board, and also a member of the executive committee of Bertelsmann. Gruner + Jahr has more than 12,500 employees and had gross profits for 2005 of 2.62 billion euro, of which 57% were from outside Germany.

Subsidiaries

In addition to direct publishing, Gruner + Jahr own interests in a number of other publishers and printers. They own 60% of Sächsische Zeitung, 56% of the NEWS Publishing Group, 25.5% of Spiegel Publishing and 95% of Henri-Nannen-Schule, a journalism school in Germany.

On 22 November 2011, it was announced that Gruner + Jahr AG & Co. KG transferred its entire 37.45-percent stake in the Prinovis Ltd. & Co. KG gravure joint venture to Arvato, another Bertelsmann division.[2]

Gruner + Jahr owns several publishers and printers outright (100%), including the second largest magazine printer in France, the Prisma Presse S.N.C. in Paris.

Gruner + Jahr established operations in India in 2008.[3] On 1 July 2011, Gruner + Jahr acquired a 78.75 percent interest in one of the leading publishing houses in India, MaXposure Media Group India Pvt Ltd.[4][5][6] This was followed by acquisition of digital ad network Networkplay March 2012[7] and acquisition of mobile ad-network SeventyNine.[8] In May 2014, Gruner + Jahr acquired a 50 percent interest in one of the leading Word-of-Mouth Marketing company in Europe trnd, to complete its adverting sales in press.[9]

Henri Nannen Prizes

Gruner + Jahr annually awards the Henri Nannen Prizes, in five news categories: best reportage, best investigative report, best documentary, best humor piece, and best photojournalism article. The prizes are awarded in May for the previous year.

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2005

2006

2007

See also

Sources

This article is based in part on material from the German Wikipedia.

References

  1. ↑ (9 February 2007) "Neun Gewinner und ein Verlierer" Kress Reports Kressverlag gmbh, p. 16
  2. ↑ Arvato acquires Gruner+Jahr's stake in Prinovis Bertelsmann.
  3. ↑ Gruner+Jahr sets up new office in Delhi Exchange4media.com, 27 July 2012
  4. ↑ Gruner + Jahr Acquires Majority interest in MaXposure Media Group, India The Telegraph, 4 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Gruner + Jahr Acquires Majority interest in MaXposure Media Group, India Gruner + Jahr, 3 August 2011.
  6. ↑ Europe's Gruner+Jahr acquires 78.75% in MaXposure Media CNBC Money Control, 4 August 2011.
  7. ↑ Ad Network NetworkPlay Acquired By Bertelsmann’s Gruner + Jahr Medianama.com, 21 March 2012
  8. ↑ In its second Indian buy this year, European firm Gruner + Jahr snaps up mobile ad-network SeventyNine NextBigWhat.com, 2 November 2012
  9. ↑ El marketing colaborativo en alza: G+J se asocia con trnd TRND. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Henri Nannen-Preis 2005 geht an Stefan Willeke (Die Zeit), Freddie Röckenhaus (Süddeutsche - Pressemitteilung Henri Nannen Preis". presseportal.de. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  11. 1 2 "German News - Deutsche Ausgabe: English Edition" Saturday, 21 May 2005
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Eine ganz große Bühne" (15 May 2006) Kress News Service "Henri Nannen Preis 2006"
  13. 1 2 "Özgenç ve Dink'e Alman ödülü" (14 May 2006) Radikal internet baskısı in Turkish
  14. 1 2 "Henri Nannen Preis 2007 geht an:" ("Henri Nannen Prize 2007 Goes To:") Presseportal, 11 May 2007, in German

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