Saarbrücker Zeitung publishing house and printing company

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Saarbrücker Zeitung publishing house and printing company
legal form GmbH
Seat Saarbrücken
Number of employees 2700
Branch media
Website www.sz-medienhaus.de

The Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH - in everyday parlance "Saarbrücker Zeitungsverlag" or "Saarbrücker Zeitungsgruppe" - is a publishing group based in Saarbrücken . The company emerged from the previously state-owned Saarbrücker Zeitung in 1969 through privatization . As a group , it publishes several daily newspapers directly and in subsidiaries and operates numerous other media. With a total of 2,700 employees, the group companies generate sales of 330 million euros. According to the company, the profit is in the double-digit million range.

The majority owner of the Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH with a share of 56 percent is the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe , which with Johannes Werle also provides the chairman of the supervisory board. Minority shareholders are the Gesellschaft für Staatsbürgerliche Bildung Saar mbh (GSB), supported by foundations affiliated with the party, with 28 percent and the employee holding company of the Saarbrücker Zeitung with 16 percent.

history

Sculpture of a newspaper reader in the courtyard

The Saarbrücker Zeitung has a large number of predecessors with different names due to the turbulent history of the Saarland going back to 1761. After the DC circuit in the era of National Socialism , the newspaper came after the end of World War II the property of the occupying power France. After the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a result of the referendum of October 23, 1955 , the newly created federal state bought all shares in Presseverlag Saarbrücker Zeitung GmbH for 1.3 million marks in 1956 .

On November 5, 1969, the Saarland Landtag decided to privatize the Saarbrücker Zeitung . For this purpose, the Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH was founded as a private sponsoring company. 49 percent of the ownership shares were sold to the publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck and 26 percent were transferred free of charge to the charitable support company Saarbrücker Zeitung . In 2000, the sponsoring company was transferred to the Society for Citizenship Education Saar mbH (GSB) , whose shareholders are the Union Stiftung , Stiftung Demokratie Saar and Liberale Stiftung Villa Lessing, which are related to the CDU , SPD and FDP .

When the former SED newspapers were privatized, the Treuhandanstalt sold the Lausitzer Rundschau to the Saarbrücker Zeitungsverlag in April 1990, which founded the wholly-owned subsidiary Lausitzer Rundschau Verlag und Druckerei GmbH .

In May 2012, the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group gave up its regional newspaper business and sold its 52.33 percent stake in Saarbrücker Zeitungsverlag to GSB . The GSB was there only temporarily act as the majority shareholder. She announced she was looking for a new partner who had the will to “maintain and develop the regionally specific characteristics of the individual newspaper titles”. As early as January 1, 2013, GSB sold 56 percent of the company on to the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe , which took over management and integrated the group's daily newspapers into its group. 28 percent of the Saarbrücker Verlag remained in the possession of GSB, 16 percent belong to an employee holding company. Since the majority takeover, RP has appointed the chairman of the supervisory board, initially with Karl Hans Arnold, then with Johannes Werle.

In 2018, the Saarbrücker Zeitungsverlag sold the Lausitzer Rundschau to the publisher of the neighboring Märkische Oderzeitung , Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG . This in turn is part of the media group Neue Pressegesellschaft based in Ulm , which owns numerous regional newspapers in southern and eastern Germany.

Group structure and media

The Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH is involved as a parent in numerous subsidiaries.

Daily newspapers

Berlin Media Service (BMS)

With the Berliner Medienservice GmbH (BMS), the newspaper group Saarbrücker Zeitung has a Berlin correspondent office that supplies several other regional newspapers with articles from the three capital city correspondents in addition to the newspapers of the Saarbrücker Zeitungsgruppe, and a "news pool" whose editorial office is in Saarbrücken. The BMS website counts as its customers on the Aachener Nachrichten , the Pirmasenser Zeitung , the Offenburger Tageblatt , the Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , the Nordsee-Zeitung , the Pforzheimer Zeitung , the Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung , the Tageblatt in Luxemburg, the Westdeutsche Zeitung with their headers Solinger Tageblatt and Remscheider General-Anzeiger , the Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine ( newspaper group Ippen ) and the Hanauer Anzeiger .

Saarbrücker VerlagsService GmbH

Saarbrücker VerlagsService GmbH, a subsidiary of the publishing house, published 20cent saar from March 31, 2005 to February 28, 2009 . This regional paper in tabloid format, which is aimed primarily at young readers, cooperated with the 20cent newspaper in Cottbus, which in turn belonged to the Lausitzer Rundschau , a subsidiary of the SZ . This title was also no longer published in March 2009.

  • Lifestyle Saarland
  • Lifestyle Trier
  • www.sol.de

multimedia

The Internet portal SOL.DE is also one of the products of the Saarbrücker Zeitung . In 2015, the publisher acquired the title rights to the "SaarZeitung" and converted the newspaper published in the Saarlouis area into a club newspaper that has been published throughout the Saarland since 2016. In September 2016, the publisher launched “allesprofis.de”, a mix of industry portal and specialist articles. The portal is active in the regions Saarland, Trier / Eifel and Lausitz.

ProServ - Medien Service Gesellschaft mbH

The Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei as well as the publishers of the Trierischer Volksfreund and the Lausitzer Rundschau each hold 16.66 percent of the shares in Proserv Medien-Service Gesellschaft mbH , while the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe holds the other 50 percent, which it acquired at the beginning of 2013 from the Georg publishing group von Holtzbrinck had taken over. In turn, ProServ, together with the Funke Mediengruppe and the Ippen publishing group, is involved in the online advertising network Markt Gruppe , which operates portals such as immowelt.de, stellenangebote.de, motoso.de and markt.de .

Telemedia

Telemedia is a telephone directory publisher and publishes the "Blue Telephone Books" in the Saarland, West Palatinate, Moselle / Eifel / Hunsrück and Lausitz / Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt areas and operates local search marketing.

Mail delivery

The group operates as a mail carrier under the saarriva brand .

Amplexor

The Amplexor International SA , based in Luxembourg , founded in 1987 as Euro Script Luxembourg , is a service company for digital technologies and processing of content.

Circ IT

The Circ IT GmbH & Co. KG is an IT service provider for publishers and media companies, which was founded in 2007 as a joint venture of the Rheinische Post Media Group and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The bishop is bidding: A newspaper is for sale in Saarbrücken. In: The time. February 14, 1969. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Society for Citizenship Education Saar mbH, Small inquiry from the left-wing parliamentary group in the Saarland state parliament. In: Website of Die Linke. Parliamentary group in the state parliament of Saarland. March 17, 2014, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Holtzbrinck sells Saarbrücker Zeitung. In: Meedia.de. May 30, 2012, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ GSB is allowed to take over: Cartel Office allows sale of the "Saarbrücker Zeitung". In: Kress News. July 2, 2012, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  5. ^ "Rheinische Post" buys "Saarbrücker Zeitung". In: Handelsblatt. September 30, 2012, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ On his own behalf: Johannes Werle will lead the SZ Supervisory Board in future. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. May 4, 2018, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ "Lausitzer Rundschau" is about to change hands. In: Horizont Online. March 13, 2018, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Media database: Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH. In: Media database of the Commission to determine the concentration in the media sector (KEK). Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Berliner Medien Service company overview. In: Website of the Berliner Medien Service GmbH. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ About us. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Our story. In: Website of Amplexor International SA Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ About us. In: Website of Circ IT GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .