Prisma Media
Prisma Media (until February 2012 Prisma Presse ) is a consumer magazine publisher in France. He is a subsidiary of the German media group Gruner + Jahr in the Bertelsmann group.
The publishing house was founded in 1978 by the journalist Axel Ganz (* 1937) from Baden-Württemberg and managed until 2005. The trained photographer came to Gruner + Jahr after various professional positions (including Offenburger Tageblatt , Paris correspondent for the Burda magazine Bunte , in the 1970s a managerial position at various magazines at Heinrich Bauer Verlag in Hamburg ). In 1979 G + J launched its first magazine in France, an adaptation of GEO . Today Prisma Media publishes more than 20 magazines. In addition to GEO and its offshoots, these include the French edition of National Geographic , Néon , the popular scientific title Ça m'intéresse , the business magazines Capital and Management , the television program booklets Télé Loisirs , Télé 2 Semaines and TV Grandes chaînes , the gossip magazines VSD , Voici and Gala , the women's magazines Femme Actuelle and Prima as well as the culinary titles Cuisine Actuelle , Guide Cuisine , Gala Gourmand , Intense and Pâtisserie . In addition to the print editions, several websites are operated as well as the women’s blog Hellocoton .
In 2011 Prisma achieved a total sold circulation of 220 million copies of its titles and generated sales of 498 million euros. The publishing house has been run by Rolf Heinz since October 2009. The publisher's headquarters are in Gennevilliers , northwest of Paris.
At the beginning of 2014, Prisma Media took over the majority in AdVideum, the largest French online video marketer.
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- ↑ Axel Ganz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2006 of June 10, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)