NordSüd Verlag
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1961 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Herwig Bitsche ( Managing Director ) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.nord-sued.com |
The NordSüd Verlag AG (earlier spelling NordSüd Verlag AG ) is an on paintings- and children's books specialized Swiss publishing house based in Zurich .
The publisher publishes around 40 books a year and currently carries around 350 titles from the fields of picture and reading books, non-fiction picture books, fairy tale books, literary and art picture books, cardboard and game books, gift books, audio books and bilingual books, which are translated into a total of more than 30 languages were. In addition to the German-speaking region served from Zurich, the English-speaking market, which is served by the subsidiary NorthSouth Books Inc. in New York, is an important sales market . In previous years, the subsidiary Éditions NordSud was maintained in Paris for the French-speaking market .
Since its inception, several books published by NordSüd Verlag have received awards. The best-known picture book characters from NordSüd Verlag include The Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer and The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister . In addition to newly illustrated classic editions with texts by Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen , among others, works by the following authors and illustrators have been published by NordSüd Verlag:
history
NordSüd Verlag was founded in 1961 by the married couple Dimitri and Brigitte Sidjanski in Gossau , Zurich . In 1979 the management of the publishing house passed to their son Davy Sidjanski . As a result, the publishing house began to expand internationally from the 1980s and especially from the 1990s in the wake of the international success of the bestseller “The Rainbow Fish” with various international locations. At the same time, the publisher's annual turnover rose to 60 million Swiss francs. However, the aggressive expansion proved too ambitious. The consequence of this was a liquidity bottleneck, which in spring 2003 led to the publisher's insolvency.
In mid-2004, NordSüd Verlag was taken over by a group of investors led by the publisher Urs Gysling, the headquarters relocated to Zurich and the publisher was subsequently restructured and redimensioned. With an annual turnover of around ten million Swiss francs, NordSüd Verlag is still the largest children's book publisher in Switzerland. In 2011 Herwig Bitsche took over the management of the publishing house.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of "NordSüd Verlag AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich ( memento of the original from January 13, 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.
- ↑ Entry of the old "Nord-Süd Verlag AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 12, 2004
- ^ Report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 1, 2008
