Brönner-Umschau Group

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The Brönner Umschau Group was a printing and publishing company based in Frankfurt am Main .

Heinrich Ludwig Brönner (1702–1769) married the printer's widow Maria Elisabeth Bauer in 1727 and together with her founded the “Brönner Druckerey” in Frankfurt that same year, which later became the Brönner Umschau Group. At the same time as the print shop , Brönner built up the publishing business, at times in the 19th century the company ran a copper printer's ink factory and a small bookstore , which it is said that Goethe liked to shop there.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, “Umschau” was a sophisticated science magazine that was published. Umschau-Buchverlag produced high-quality illustrated books until the very end. The last milestone in the company's history was the construction of a new print shop and the installation of a new rotary press in the Höchst industrial park in 2000. The high investments and declining print orders led to the company's insolvency in 2003.

Around the turn of the millennium, the Brönner group of companies owned more than 20 specialist magazines at home and abroad - organized in various magazine publishers - as well as catalog publishers, multimedia agencies, a PR agency for financial communication, book publishers and calendar publishers. On the 275th anniversary in 2002, the company was renamed to “Mediengruppe Breidenstein” after the owner family that had been “Breidenstein” for several generations .

In the company's printing and publishing houses, a total of almost 400 jobs have been lost since the economic decline began in the 1990s. The MTD publishing house, the report publishing house and the Umschau magazine publishing house, which had since been reduced to a few titles, were continued. Some magazine titles had already been sold before the bankruptcy, as well as the catalog publisher and the calendar publisher.

Former companies of the Brönner-Umschau Group

  • Andres calendar publisher
  • Breidenstein (GmbH & Co. KG, Holding)
  • Brönner's print shop
  • Brönner calendar publisher
  • Brönner catalog publisher
  • Dateam (multimedia)
  • Finance come
  • Management consultant publishing house
  • mdc (Internet)
  • MTD publishing house
  • Report publisher
  • Umschau Buchverlag, later Umschau-Braus, then Neue Umschau
  • Umschau magazine publisher
  • VSV service and administration

Former group magazines

  • Biotechnical survey
  • BL Journal Laboratory Practice in Biology and Agriculture
  • CLB, Chemistry in Laboratory and Biotechnology
  • The chemical engineer
  • Nutritional review
  • Filtration and separation
  • German Motor Tribune
  • Health
  • InLeder / Leather Goods Magazine / German Leather Industry
  • Ident - The forum for automatic data acquisition
  • Leica photography
  • Leica Photography International
  • Leather & Skins Market
  • Management consultant
  • Motor-Rundschau / Motorsport
  • MTA / MTA spectrum
  • MTD Medical-Technical Dialog
  • PBS report
  • Photo sheets
  • PTA in the pharmacy
  • Shoe market
  • Protect newspaper
  • Writing culture
  • Black and white photography)
  • Shell post
  • Soldier and technology
  • Traffic watch practice / German traffic watch
  • Look around in science and technology
  • Military medical monthly
  • Defense reports
  • Space travel and rocket technology
  • How are you today (customer magazine)
  • Frankfurt Economic Forum

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