Facultas
| Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| management | Rüdiger Salat (board member) |
| Branch | Publishing and distribution of printed works |
| Website | www.facultas.at |
Facultas is an Austrian publishing house and book distributor. The joint-stock company, which emerged from the merger of two copy shops founded in 1976, is the fourth largest bookseller in Austria with a turnover of around 30 million euros . In 2013 there were more than 100 employees. The company specializes in specialist literature and is 50 percent owned by the ÖH at the University of Vienna and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .
history
In 1976, companies at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business were founded by the respective student body to operate a copy shop. In the 1990s, after mismanagement by representatives of the student body, the Wiener Universitätsverlag (WUV) and the service companies of WU Vienna were founded as a GmbH . In 2001 the two companies merged to form Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG, in which the two student unions each hold 50 percent. Thomas Stauffer was appointed managing director, who handed over this position to Rüdiger Salat in 2015.
The Vienna University Press had been a partner in UTB Unitaschenbücher GesmbH since 1999 . After the establishment of Facultas AG, further investments were acquired. For example in 2001 the majority stake in Facultas Dombuchhandels GmbH. This was followed in 2005 and 2006 by the purchase of the medical mail order bookstore Oscar Rothacker VerlagsbuchhandlunggmbH & Co KG (merged in 2008), the university bookstore and the Wilhelm Maudrich GmbH & Co KG publishing house, as well as the merger with the traditional company Urban & Schwarzenberg GmbH . In 2013 Management Book Service Buchvertriebs-GmbH was acquired.
In 2011, almost 900,000 euros in profit were generated. Since 2009 part of the profit has been distributed to the two student unions.
Others
In 1985, the Senate of the University of Vienna awarded the title “University Press”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Faculta's corporate history (accessed on February 19, 2016).
- ↑ a b c Wiener Zeitung : An unmilked cash cow - ÖH bookstore Facultas has 8 million euros in reserves, but students hardly have any of it (accessed on February 19, 2016).