Marquard Media Group

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Marquard Media International AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1965
Seat Baar , Switzerland
management Bijan Khezri (Chairman of the Management Board )
Jürg Marquard
( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Number of employees approx. 450 (2012)
Branch media
Website www.marquard-media.com

The Marquard Media Group is a media group based in Baar , Switzerland . The core is the Marquard Media Group AG . The group sells around 40 publications in German-speaking countries, Poland and Hungary . The Marquard Media Group employs around 450 people.

history

The Marquard Media Group was founded by the publisher Jürg Marquard , who controls the group to this day. Marquards magazine Pop laid the foundation for the product range , from which the magazine Pop / Rocky emerged after the merger with other youth magazines . Marquard's breakthrough in the German-speaking magazine market came in 1981 with Cosmopolitan magazine .

In 1988, Jürg Marquard launched the Hungarian versions of Popcorn and Girls as the first Western publisher to launch private, regularly published magazines behind the " iron curtain " that still existed at the time . In the following years the Marquard Media Group expanded its activities by purchasing existing daily newspapers in Hungary and Poland and by founding additional magazines in Eastern Europe.

In 1999 the group was realigned and focused more on the premium magazine segment. The youth and music magazines were sold to Axel Springer Verlag , the Hungarian daily newspapers to Ringier Verlag and the Polish web offset printer to Baring Private Equity Partners.

Following this phase of consolidation, Marquard Media began to expand again. In addition to other acquisitions, the Polish company VIPress with the titles Playboy and Voyage was taken over and integrated into the group.

Marquard Media today

In the summer of 2005, Marquard Media secured a 95.1% stake in Computec Media AG, which was listed at the time, with a public takeover offer , which among other things publishes popular magazines in the electronic entertainment and multimedia sectors.

At the end of 2007, the Swiss publisher took over the men's title Maxim from Axel Springer AG . With the May 2009 edition, however, the title has been discontinued.

Today Marquard Media publishes a total of around 40 print publications in Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and Poland and is present with licensed editions in other countries. The rapidly growing online area in the German-speaking area includes around 20 websites and portals according to the company's own information.

In May 2012 the German editions of Cosmopolitan and Shape as well as the magazine Joy including all foreign licenses were sold to the Bauer Media Group .

In October 2016, Marquard acquired the Hungarian daily newspaper Népszava .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry by "Marquard Media International AG" Commercial Register of the Canton of Zug ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / search.powernet.ch
  2. ↑ Media release from April 16, 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marquard-media.com
  3. ↑ Status and name see company identification number (UID) of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO)
  4. ↑ Horizont.net: "Marquard Media: Aus für Maxim" , March 27, 2009
  5. ↑ Bauer takes over the German Marquard publishing group spiegel.de, May 11, 2012
  6. ↑ http://derstandard.at/2000045893553/Ungarns-linke-Zeitung-Nepszava-verkauf

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