Computec Media
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1989 |
| Seat | Fuerth , Germany |
| management | Christian Müller Rainer Rosenbusch |
| Number of employees | 185 (December 31, 2012) |
| sales | 24.6 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | media |
| Website | https://www.computec.de |
The Computec Media GmbH is an in Fürth -based media company and a subsidiary of the Swiss Marquard Media Group . Externally, the company appeared as Computec Media Group between 2017 and 2019 . Computec publishes magazines , digital media and web portals for the German-speaking area.
The enterprise
The company emerged from CT Computec Verlag GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1989 by Christian Geltenpoth in Nuremberg as a joint venture with Gong Verlag , and was listed on the General Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2013 . In 2005 the company, which had previously been managed by Geltenpoth, was taken over by the Swiss Marquard Media Group. On March 31, 2009, the chairman of the board, Johannes Sevket Gözalan , who had taken over the chairmanship of the board in 2005 from the company's founder Christian Geltenpoth, resigned. Gözalan's successor was Albrecht Hengstenberg and the publishing director was Hans Ippisch , who had been editor-in-chief at the publishing house since 1991. On October 1, 2013, Marquard Media took over the remaining shares through a squeeze-out , took the company off the stock exchange and converted it into a GmbH. In 2014 Computec Media took over the Linux and Raspberry Pi magazines from Medialinx . In 2017 Hans Ippisch became CEO of Computec, in June 2019 he left Marquard Media and switched to the console manufacturer Intellivision.
The most successful titles to date are PC Games, introduced in 1992, and SFT, which was first published in 2004 .
On July 1, 2016, Computec Media took over Areamobile.de .
Well-known titles that have since been discontinued include SEGA Magazin , PC Action , Play Time , Amiga Games , EasyLinux , Mega Fun , SFT , Widescreen and the XBG Games .
subsidiary company
The following subsidiaries belong to Computec Media (as of January 2019):
- CMS Media Services GmbH, Fürth
- Golem Media GmbH, Berlin
- 4players GmbH, Hamburg
- Aruba Events GmbH, Cologne
Managing directors
- Christian Mueller
- Rainer Rosenbusch
Publications
The following publications are issued by Computec Media and its subsidiaries (as of August 2020):
- 4players
- areamobile.de
- Buffed
- Games current
- gamescom current
- gamesworld.de
- gamezone.de
- Golem.de
- Linux magazine
- LinuxUser
- Making games
- N zone
- PC Games
- PC Games MMORE
- PC games hardware
- Play⁴
- Raspberry Pi Geek
- readmore.de
- videogameszone.de
Web links
- computec.de - Website of Computec Media
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2012 ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Dirk Gooding: Computec Media Group accelerates change: digital & event share in 2016 for the first time over 50%. Interview with Hans Ippisch and Rainer Rosenbusch. In: Making Games. Computec Media, March 1, 2017, accessed December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ What is actually ...? Christian Geltenpoth . In: IHK Nuremberg for Middle Franconia (ed.): WiM - Economy in Middle Franconia . No. 03/2010 , 2010, ISSN 1437-7071 ( ihk-nuernberg.de [accessed on December 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Ad hoc: Entry of the squeeze-out decision in the commercial register. (pdf) Computec Media, October 1, 2013, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 .
- ^ Announcement of the Deutsche Börse. (pdf) Deutsche Börse, October 2, 2013, archived from the original on February 18, 2015 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 .
- ^ Henrik Wittmann: Marquard Media swallows Computec. In: DWDL.de . April 3, 2005, accessed December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Hans Ippisch leaves Marquard Media and changes to Intellivision. In: Meedia . June 10, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Computec Media takes over Linux and Raspberry Pi activities from Medialinx. Press release, Medialinx homepage, accessed on December 5, 2014.
- ↑ On our own behalf: Areamobile in future under the umbrella of Computec Media. In: www.areamobile.de. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Group structure on the Computec Media website, accessed on January 25, 2019
- ↑ Portfolio . Computec Media, accessed on August 18, 2020