German dispatch service
| ddp Deutscher Depeschendienst GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1971 |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Seat | Berlin , Germany |
| management | Martin Vorderwülbecke (managing director); Cord Dreyer (editor-in-chief and managing director) |
| Number of employees | approx. 150 (2009) |
| sales | EUR 12 million (2008) |
| Branch | News agency, media service provider |
The Deutsche Depeschendienst ( ddp ) - ddp Deutscher Depeschendienst - was a news agency based in Berlin . The ddp reported from Germany and abroad on events of importance for Germany. In December 2009, ddp took over the German service of the Associated Press (AP) news agency and merged with the dapd news agency to become a full agency for news from home and abroad. The dapd, in turn, discontinued its service on April 11, 2013 in the course of its bankruptcy without replacement.
backgrounds
The ddp recently employed more than 140 permanent editors and photographers and around 350 freelance correspondents . Most recently, the managing directors of the ddp were Martin Vorderwülbecke and Cord Dreyer, who was also editor-in-chief in a double function.
ddp delivered text and image messages to around 350 customers.
The ddp basic service generated and delivered news from the fields of politics, economy, culture and miscellaneous. With the 22 correspondent offices of its 12 regional services, ddp reported on political and regional issues from all 16 federal states. In cooperation with Dow Jones Newswires , ddp produced the business news ddp.djn . The service provided up-to-date information on the most important developments in companies, on the financial markets and in economic policy. Together with other cooperation partners, ddp also offered thematic and advisory services. The ddp picture service, headed by Dirk von Borstel, provided pictures of all important events for Germany around the clock.
Ddp also produced print-ready pages for daily newspapers and content for websites. In cooperation with the Austrian software house Knallgrau, ddp-MenschenNetz was also offered, a software for building Internet communities.
Holding and sister company
The picture agencies Deutscher Fotodienst GmbH (dfd), since November 1, 2009 ddp images GmbH, and colourpress were, like ddp, subsidiaries of the holding ddp DAPD media AG.
Founded in 2006, dfd Deutscher Fotodienst GmbH was - in addition to distributing ddp's image material - responsible for selling images for colourpress and the labels defd movies , stars and a-life . The latter were acquired in 2006 together with the film-historical pwe Peter W. Engelmeier Photo Archive , which previously belonged to the Milchstrasse publishing group .
colourpress established itself in the Scandinavian market in 2002 as a provider of celebrity photos.
Since November 2009 the brands have been combined under the new company ddp images GmbH for the German market. The company is based in Hamburg.
The group's PR service provider, ddp direct, was taken over by the NHST Media Group from Norway in 2012. The company filed for bankruptcy on October 1, 2013.
history
The German Depeschendienst in 1971 by eight former employees of the US - news agency UPI founded after the UPI had adjusted its German service. In 1992 ddp took over the General German News Service (ADN), the former state news agency of the GDR and was now called ddp / ADN. From 2000 on, ddp / ADN was again called ddp as it was originally.
In 2006, pwe Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, was taken over and integrated into the newly founded German Photo Service (dfd) based in Hamburg. The dfd has a database with around two million images (as of 2008).
At the beginning of 2008, ddp finally took over 100 percent of the capital shares in the Danish photo agency colourpress.com A / S. The ddp, which has been operating its own sales activities abroad since 2005, has thus expanded its range of images to include entertainment. colourpress will be continued as an independent agency under the umbrella of ddp media Holding.
In 1983 and 2004 the ddp filed for bankruptcy . As a result, the main shareholders changed several times: among others
- 1983 Bolko Hoffmann
- 1994 Wolf E. Schneider
- 1999 ProSieben Group (later ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG )
From 2004 to the beginning of 2009, the ddp was 100 percent a subsidiary of the Starnberg-based investment company Arques Industries , which continued the business under the name ddp Deutscher Depeschendienst GmbH. In the spring of 2008, ddp announced that it had achieved the highest turnover in the company's history with 11.7 million euros and had thus achieved stable profitability. In January 2009 the ddp-Holding was taken over privately by Peter Löw and Martin Vorderwülbecke . In December 2009 the agency took over the German service of the AP news agency. The Swiss AP office was also taken over. Since February 2010 the company has been cooperating with the Swiss Dispatch Agency (sda); the newly acquired office was closed.
Competitor
The largest competitors in the German market were the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) and the German branches of the international agencies Agence France-Presse and Reuters .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Bouhs: Agencies: crash at ddp and DAPD . Meedia.de. January 31, 2010. Accessed December 31, 2011.
- ^ DDP: About the company ( Memento from August 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ turi2 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. dated October 1, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ↑ Press release ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ German AP becomes DAPD ( Memento from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 15, 2009
- ↑ Media release from the SDA. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 27, 2011 ; accessed on January 31, 2010 . 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.
