Neumann-Wolff Group

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Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG
legal form Joint stock company not listed
founding 1949
Seat Kiel GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Axel Klug
sales 45.0 million EUR (group)
Branch publishing company
Website [1]
As of December 31, 2017

The Neumann-Wolff-Gruppe is a group of publishers and printing houses specialized in calendars under the umbrella of the Holding Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG based in Kiel . With its 12 companies at 9 locations in Germany and the Netherlands, including well-known publishers such as Palazzi, Helios, Zettler and DuMont Kalenderverlag, the group is the market leader in Germany.

history

In 1949, Siegfried Neumann and Linda Neumann, widowed Wolff, founded Neumann & Wolff Verlag as a general partnership in Kiel. In the following years, books by Quirin Engasser , Richard Carstensen , Kurt Vethake , Hanns Deininger and Gisbert W. Kühne-Hellmessen were published. In 1971 the publishing house was expanded to include the newly founded Norddruck Neumann GmbH for printing calendars, books and postcards. After reunification , the company expanded in the new federal states and in 1992, Süddruck Neumann GmbH & Co. KG was founded in Plauen . The logistics service provider Logistor GmbH & Co. KG followed.

After Siegfried Neumann founded the Siegfried Neumann Foundation to promote medical research in 1999, he withdrew from the company and the lawyer Kay Dietrich Neumann-Wolff took over the company in the second generation. Alpha Edition GmbH & Co. KG, based in Kiel, was founded on December 15, 2006 in order to expand the business field.

On April 28, 2010, Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG, based in Kiel, is entered in the commercial register as a holding company. Gerhard Fröhler was appointed to the Management Board, who was replaced by Axel Klug on September 22nd. In the following years, the company was restructured and on February 9, 2011, Norddruck Neumann GmbH & Co. KG was merged with Neumann & Wolff Verlag oHG to form the new Neumann & Wolff Werbekalender GmbH & Co. KG. Linda Neumann left the publishing house. On May 31, 2012, the Plauen companies, Süddruck Neumann and Logistor, merged to form the Plauen GmbH & Co. KG calendar. In the same year, Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG took the Dutch Helios Kalenders BV out of the bankruptcy estate of the insolvent Drukkerij Heinen Eibergen BV

In 2014 the Bremen-based Palazzi Verlag was taken over and integrated into the group as Palazzi Kalender GmbH. On January 1, 2015, Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG took over the calendar and stationery division of the Kempen publishing group teNeues and transferred it to the newly founded teNeues Calendars & Stationery GmbH & Co. KG, based in Kiel. In April of the same year, the Dutch NKF Nederlandse Kalenderfabriek BV was taken over

At the beginning of 2017, the Neumann Group acquired the calendar publisher Zettler Kalender GmbH from Schwabmünchen, founded in 1923, from the heir family Bergmann. At around the same time, with retroactive effect to January 1, the Cologne-based DuMont calendar publishing house was taken over by the DuMont media group and the Kalenderteam 365 GmbH was founded as a platform for resellers.

On March 7, 2018, Wohldorf GmbH was acquired and integrated into the group as TTB Calendar GmbH based in Kaltenkirchen . This was followed by Arti Promotion GmbH, which was founded as part of a transferring restructuring from the insolvent Arti Kalender & Promotion GmbH from Herzebrock-Clarholz .

Companies

The Neumann-Wolff Group is a group of publishing houses and printing companies that emerged from Neumann & Wolff Verlag under the umbrella of the parent company, Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG. The group's companies publish, produce and sell calendars, diaries and stationery and are together market leaders for calendars in Germany.

The publishers of the Neumann-Wolff Group publish works by Gerhard Launer , André M. Hünseler , Rainer Groothuis , Gert Weigelt , Thomas Kammeier , Pina Bausch and the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Herta Müller, among others . The following companies belonged to the group in 2018:

  • Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG, Kiel
    • Neumann Verwaltungs-GmbH, Kiel
      • Neumann & Wolff Werbekalender GmbH & Co. KG, Kiel
      • Alpha Edition GmbH & Co. KG, Kiel
      • Calendar factory Plauen GmbH & Co. KG, Plauen
    • teNeues Verlag Verwaltungs-GmbH, Kiel
      • teNeues Calendars & Stationery GmbH & Co. KG, Kiel
    • arti promotion GmbH, Herzebrock-Clarholz
    • Calendar team 365 GmbH, Kiel
    • Palazzi Calendar GmbH, Bremen
    • Zettler Calendar GmbH, Schwabmünchen
    • Helios Kalenders BV, Eibergen NL
    • NKF Nederlandse Kalenderfabriek BV, Beek NL
    • DuMont Kalenderverlag Verwaltungs GmbH, Kiel
      • DuMont Kalenderverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne
    • TTB Calendar GmbH, Kaltenkirchen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual financial statements published in the Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ a b c Neumann Group takes over DuMont Kalenderverlag. In: book report . February 21, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Register announcements published in the Federal Gazette
  4. ^ Books from the publisher Kiel Neumann & Wolff. In: Booklooker. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  5. ^ Siegfried Neumann Foundation promotes medical research. In: shz.de . July 24, 2013, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kiel-based Neumann Group on course for growth - Dutch calendar manufacturer Helios taken over. In: Communication. Apenberg & Partner, April 25, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ PALAZZI Verlag becomes PALAZZI Kalender GmbH. In: book report. September 29, 2014, accessed August 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Lacore advises the Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG on the acquisition of the calendar and stationery division from the teNeues publishing group. In: News. Lacore RAE, December 8, 2014, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ teNeues: Calendar division from 2015 at the Neumann Group. In: Promotional News. February 12, 2014, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ NKF Nederlandse Kalenderfabriek BV. In: Drimble. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Neumann Group takes over Zettler. In: Promotional News. January 5, 2017, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Christian Kruppe: The Zettler calendar works have a new owner. In: Schwabmünchen city newspaper. January 5, 2017, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Neumann-Wolff-Gruppe also takes over DuMont Kalenderverlag / Anette Philippen continues business. In: Book Market. February 21, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Market leader buys Arti - 71 jobs secured. In: The bell. August 16, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Herta Müller collages. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .

Web links

https://www.neumann-wolff.de/