JF Ziegler KG printing and publishing house

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The JF Ziegler KG Printing and Publishing is a publishing house in Remscheid.

The publishing house is a family business and published the Remscheider General-Anzeiger (RGA) from October 26, 1889 to the end of 2011 . Other products from the RGA media company include a. the Bergische Anzeiger - an advertising paper , the RGA-Buchverlag for Bergische Heimatliteratur and rga-online.de , an internet magazine for the Bergische Land.

Newspaper items from the publisher

The publisher publishes the weekly free advertising paper Bergischer Anzeiger, which also contains an editorial section and is distributed in a total of around 100,000 copies in Remscheid, Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen, Wipperfürth and Radevormwald.

RGA book publisher

For more than 100 years, the publishing and printing company JF Ziegler KG has also made it its mission to preserve the native literature of the Bergisches Land, to make its history, its sights and its culture known. In addition to literature, the RGA-Buchverlag publishes various directories and periodicals, one of the main products being the telephone directory Das Örtliche for Remscheid, Radevormwald and Wermelskirchen. In addition, books on the topics of dialect, history, hiking & leisure, architecture and Bergisch cuisine have been published.

A commercial printing company operated for many years was liquidated in 2004.

Sale to Medienhaus B. Boll, printing works closed

At the end of October 2011 it was announced that JF Ziegler KG Druckerei und Verlag would transfer all title and publishing rights to the Remscheider General-Anzeiger with its head editions Wermelskirchener General-Anzeiger, Hückeswagener Stadtanzeiger and Radevormwalder Zeitung to the Solinger Tageblatt publisher , Medienhaus B. Boll , and the print shop in Überfeld has to be closed by December 31, 2011.

www.rga-online.de

On September 1, 1996, the Remscheid-based media company launched its rga-online website. In the meantime, the online service has developed into the largest Remscheid portal. Rga-online records up to 1.9 million page views and 40,000 unique users per month.

www.kalaydo.de

Since March 2006, the publisher has been running the online advertising portal www together with other Rhenish newspaper publishers. kalaydo .de. The portal was able to establish itself within a short time and, with over 27 million page views (according to IVW March 07), is one of the top ten German e-commerce offers.

literature

  • Hanskarl Willms, Christoph Elles: 110 years of current affairs: a chronicle; 110 years RGA 1889-1999 , Ziegler, Remscheid 1999, ISBN 3-923495-57-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medienhaus B. Boll, Verlag des Solinger Tageblattes, and JF Ziegler KG, Verlag des Remscheid General-Anzeiger: The Boll publishing family continues RGA. Solinger Tageblatt, October 28, 2011, accessed on January 21, 2018 .