Gong Publishing House

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Gong Verlag GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1948
Seat Ismaning
management Manfred Braun
Number of employees 180 (2009)
sales 41.7 million euros (2009)
Branch media
Website www.gong-verlag.de

The Gong Verlag is a German magazine publisher based in Ismaning near Munich.

history

The publishing house , founded in 1948 , initially belonged to the Nuremberg-based Sebaldus Verlag as a subsidiary. After Schlott AG took over Sebaldus Verlag, 25 percent of the shares in Gong Verlag were transferred to Schlott, while the remaining 75 percent remained with the Sebaldus owners. In October 2000, the Essen-based Funke media group bought this 75 percent from the previous Sebaldus owners, and in December 2001 the Funke Group also took over the remaining 25 percent from Schlott Sebaldus AG. Gong Verlag is thus a subsidiary of the Funke media group. For its part, Gong Verlag founded the subsidiary Deutscher Rätselverlag GmbH & Co. KG in 2006, in which around 50 puzzle books appear.

In 2010 Gong Verlag took over the online program guide klack.de . Since March 2012, the publisher has been operating the health portal lifeline.de , which was taken over by Springer Science + Business Media . In August 2017, founded in 2014 was video-on-demand - Engine werstreamt.es taken over by the Gong Verlag.

facts and figures

In addition to the eponymous television magazine Gong, Gong Verlag publishes a total of 14 program magazines (including TVdirekt , Bild + Funk , Super TV and TVpiccolino ) as well as eight animal magazines, the most famous of which is Ein Herz für Tiere . The publishing house employs around 200 people.

Publications

Program guides

Animal magazines

Others

The publisher is committed to promoting environmentally friendly and resource-saving processes. Gong was the first publishing house in Germany to receive the “PEFC Certificate 04-31-0581”, an award for supporting regional paper suppliers in environmentally friendly, economically justifiable and socially responsible forest management. According to its own information, the publisher covers a third of its annual consumption with 100 percent recovered paper. Over 50 percent of the paper consumption with fresh fiber content is obtained from wood that comes from forests that are sustainably managed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gong Verlag: Company - About us
  2. ↑ Publication in the electronic Federal Gazette
  3. ↑ Publication in the electronic Federal Gazette
  4. ^ WAZ: Gong-Verlag under the hood in manager magazin of October 30, 2000
  5. ↑ WAZ takes over Gong-Verlag completely in Horizont from January 2nd, 2002
  6. ↑ Gong Verlag buys online program guide Klack.de in Werben & Sell from May 11, 2010
  7. ↑ Manuela Pauker: Funke Group buys streaming search engine. In: Advertise & Sell. August 16, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Gong Verlag: List of Publications
  9. ↑ Gong Verlag: Behind the Scenes - PEFC Certificate 04-31-0581