Data Becker

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Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 7th January 1981
resolution March 31, 2014
Reason for dissolution Business abandonment
Seat Schanzenstrasse 131
40549  Düsseldorf
management Achim Becker
Harald Becker (Managing Director)
sales € 28.7 million (2007)
Branch Computer science

The Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG (as a word mark in the spelling DATA BECKER ) was one of the first German IT - specialist publishers as well as a company for software and computer accessories based in Dusseldorf . As of March 31, 2014, the company ceased operations.

Former company headquarters in Düsseldorf-Bilk in 2004. The shop was given up in 2011 and the house itself was demolished after it was closed in 2014.

history

The company, founded on January 7, 1981 by the brothers Achim and Harald Becker, sons of the Düsseldorf car dealer Wilhelm Becker , initially as a specialist shop for computer accessories, entered the publishing business in 1983 after home computers such as the C64 became commercially successful, and has since published software, IT -Literature and computer journals.

In the 1980s, the company also became known for using detectives against pirates , among other things .

In 1984 Data Becker was the largest specialist computer publisher in the Federal Republic of Germany and achieved sales of 39 million D-Marks . In 1996 the company achieved a turnover of 113.5 million DM. In 2001 Data Becker had around 160 employees. The company headquarters of Data Becker was in Düsseldorf-Bilk , the magazine editorial office and the book publisher in the immediate vicinity. The shop was given up in 2011.

On October 9, 2013, Data Becker announced that the company would cease operations on March 31, 2014. Parts of the company are to be sold. Support for the current software offerings should be continued by other companies after the closure.

Products

In the software sector, Data Becker recently published programs for internet projects (websites, online shops, community) and private users (system tools, print applications and planning software, "Golden Series"). The last products in the software segment were Web to date and PDF Professional. In 2000, the computer game America: No Peace Beyond the Line, developed by Related Designs , was published . PC accessories such as ink cartridges and cleaning products were also offered. The company's products have been sold in several European countries and the United States.

The publisher published computer books for users and specialist books on topics such as digital photography . The computer magazine PC Praxis appeared monthly, with a circulation of 200,000 copies in 1994 and 61,800 copies in the first quarter of 2012.

Various monothematic special titles were published at irregular intervals such as Windows Intern (2004 to 2013), Linux Intern (1998 to 2013) and Internet Intern (2001 to 2013), which is more appealing to web designers and programmers . In addition, special issues such as webselling ( e-commerce ), Foto Praxis ( digital photography ) and Mac Praxis ( Apple ) were published on a regular basis . Even before the publishing house closed, the magazines PC Intern (from 1995 to 2007) and Online Praxis (from 1996 to 2002) were discontinued.

The open source magazine with DVD has also appeared in the series since 2006 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data Becker still wants to be a startup after 30 years . Focus Online January 5, 2011; Retrieved April 8, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Michael Kroker: IT-Verlag: Data Becker will be closed in 2014. In: WirtschaftsWoche Online. October 9, 2013, accessed October 9, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Data Becker. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2014 ; Retrieved April 9, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.databecker.de
  4. ↑ Data Becker wants to be “reinvented again and again” even after 30 years . shortnews.de, January 6, 2011; Retrieved April 8, 2012
  5. ↑ Computer: Like an Epidemic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1983, pp. 67-71 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Computer: Narrow and woody . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1987, pp. 81-83 ( online ).
  7. ↑ jump-jointed into the gap . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1985, pp. 60-63 ( online ).
  8. ↑ CD-ROM review: The large lexicon from Data Becker . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/1996
  9. ↑ Fax from the screen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1994, pp. 253 ( online ).
  10. ↑ It doesn't always have to be Adobe. In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2009, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  11. ↑ netzwelt.de
  12. ↑ golem.de
  13. ↑ "The prophet counts nothing in his own country" - Interview with Dr. Achim Becker mediabiz.de, January 22, 2001; Retrieved April 8, 2012
  14. ↑ On the hunt for the public and advertisers, the computer magazines drive each other crazy: User in the valley avalanche - at a loss . In: Die Zeit , No. 47/1994
  15. ↑ (IVW 01/2012)