Be Printers

Be Printers
legal form	Group of companies
founding	January 1, 2012
resolution	December 31, 2015
Seat	Hamburg , Germany
management	Bertram Stausberg ( CEO )
Number of employees	3,415
sales	742 million euros
Branch	Printing industry
As of December 31, 2015

Be Printers was a German group of companies in the printing industry with headquarters in Hamburg . It was founded by Bertelsmann in 2012 and was fully integrated into the Bertelsmann Printing Group in 2016 . Among other things, Prinovis belonged to her .

history

In 2012, the media and service group Bertelsmann bundled some of its printing plants under the umbrella of Be Printers. The new division comprised a total of 17 printing plants in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Colombia and the United States. These previously belonged to the Arvato service division; only the German printing companies GGP Media , Mohn Media and Vogel Druck remained there. With 6,380 employees, Be Printers achieved sales of 1.174 billion euros in the 2012 financial year. Bertram Stausberg took over the management of the group of companies. The founding of Be Printers was part of a major restructuring of the Bertelsmann Group under the executive board chairman Thomas Rabe , who has been in office since 2012 .

In the first financial year, Be Printers mainly had to contend with criticism of the closure of the Prinovis printing plant in Itzehoe. Be Printers' sales continued to decline over the years due to company sales as well as falling prices and overcapacities on the market. For example, the news magazine Der Spiegel was lost as a customer to Mohn Media. In 2013, Be Printers' turnover fell to 1.123 billion euros, and in 2014 it was below a billion (996 million euros) for the first time. In order to stabilize the business, Be Printers sold its printing plants in Spain and Italy in 2015. Later in the year, Axel Springer's exit from the gravure printing company Prinovis gave the Group the opportunity to simplify the business structure. As of January 1, 2016, Bertelsmann combined all printing companies in the Bertelsmann Printing Group . In addition to Be Printers including Prinovis, the companies that remained with Arvato were also merged into the new group of companies, which is the market leader in Europe.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Annual Report 2015. (PDF) Bertelsmann, p. 24 , accessed on January 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Bertelsmann prints as “Be Printers” . In: Westfalen-Blatt . November 1, 2012.
3. ↑ Bertelsmann names printing division Be Printers . In: New Westphalian . November 1, 2012.
4. ↑ "Overcapacities and Falling Prices" . Be-Printers sales stagnate. In: German printer . April 18, 2013, p. 8 .
5. ↑ Annual Report 2012. (PDF) Bertelsmann, p. 70 , accessed on January 23, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Bertelsmann loses top managers. In: The bell. September 16, 2016, accessed January 23, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Stefan Schelp: In the family circle . In: New Westphalian . March 19, 2013.
8. ↑ Group in unrest . In: Westfalen-Blatt . March 22, 2014.
9. ↑ Stefan Schelp: Growth with announcement . In: New Westphalian . March 27, 2013.
10. ↑ Price pressure and overcapacities are causing a slump in profits at Be Printers . In: German printer . April 3, 2014, p. 5 .
11. ↑ Michael Rothe: Dresden is losing the conscience of the nation . In: Saxon newspaper . May 22, 2014, p. 20 .
12. ↑ Annual Report 2013. (PDF) Bertelsmann, p. 80 , accessed on January 23, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Annual Report 2014. (PDF) Bertelsmann, p. 92 , accessed on January 23, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Bertelsmann sells printing plants in Spain. In: Handelsblatt. May 4, 2015, accessed January 23, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Be Printers is giving up operations again . In: German printer . May 21, 2015, p. 5 .
16. ↑ Bertelsmann accesses Prinovis . In: Börsen-Zeitung . October 6, 2015, p. 13 .
17. ↑ Prinovis now without jumper . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . October 6, 2015, p. 17 .
18. ↑ Bertelsmann merges its printing division . In: German printer . November 12, 2015, p. 4 .
19. ↑ Eike Horstmann: A new printing giant . In: New Westphalian . November 6, 2015, p. 6 .