Clausen & Bosse

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Coordinates: 54 ° 46 ′ 23.5 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 6.9 ″  E

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Driveway for incoming goods for the company Clausen & Bosse

The printing company Clausen & Bosse is a book printing company in the North Frisian community of Leck . With around 580 employees (as of 2013), it is one of the 100 largest employers in Schleswig-Holstein . It has been wholly owned by the French Groupe CPI (Chevrillon Philippe Industrie) since 2002 .

history

The Clausen & Bosse company was founded in 1951 by Ove Becker Clausen and Hinrich Bosse . In 1960 the Rowohlt Verlag in Reinbek and the paper mill Temming (today: Steinbeis-Temming) in Glückstadt acquired shares in Clausen & Bosse. The Lecker company was already connected to the Rowohlt family before. As early as 1950, Ernst Rowohlt visited Clausen & Bosse's predecessor, the Christian Jessen Sohn print shop , and discovered a rotary press from the 1930s that was suitable for inexpensive paperback printing.

The company developed excellently in the first few years. In 1968 the printing capacity was 45,000 paperbacks and 6,000 hard covers a day.

The company's next institutional change took place in 1983. At that time, the Stuttgart publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck ( Die Zeit , Der Tagesspiegel ) acquired the printing works from Rowohlt Verlag. In 2002 the Parisian Groupe CPI (Chevrillon Philippe Industrie) finally took over 100 percent of the shares in Clausen & Bosse.

In 2003, the two companies of the Groupe CPI, Clausen & Bosse and Ebner & Spiegel (Ulm- Böfingen ), organized themselves in a joint sales organization called CPI BOOKS .

The printing capacity is now 600,000 paperbacks and 100,000 hard covers every working day (as of 2004). This makes Clausen & Bosse one of the largest printing companies in Germany and, together with its sister company Ebner & Spiegel, one of the largest European book producers.

To meet the growing demands of the book market, Clausen & Bosse put a new digital rotary printing press into operation in November 2011. This is a T 400 ink printing system from Hewlett-Packard , the width of which has been increased in the width of the paper roll especially for this location in order to be able to produce the standard letterpress paper in small editions on the machine. The second Quantum followed in 2014, this time a 480T that can print in 4 colors. This was upgraded to a higher print resolution (HD) in 2017. A special feature is the folding unit behind the printing machine, which produces 16-page printed sheets.

On August 1, 2013, it was announced that the parent company CPI was to be taken over by the Impala Group, which received support for this transaction from the French bank Banque publique d'investissement (Bpifrance). As part of the takeover, CPI was to be rescheduled so that the company's financial liabilities fall to 15 million euros. The new shareholders Impala, Bpifrance and the management invested 21 million euros in equity and equity-like funds to support CPI in its business development. In spring 2018, the parent company was taken over by the newly founded Circle Media Group. This created the largest printing group in Europe with a turnover of around 900 million euros. In spring 2019, the parent company was then sold again, this time to the British private investor Richard Hughes and his company RHWO.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 100 largest companies in Schleswig-Holstein at shz.de, accessed on September 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Report on the company's own website
  3. ↑ Report on the company's own website
  4. ↑ Martina Reinhardt: Circle Media Group sells CPI Group after nine months. print.de from April 10, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019