Schöning publishing house
The Schöning GmbH & Co. KG (formerly: Schöning & Co Brothers Schmidt GmbH & Co. ) is an in Luebeck -based specialist publisher and market leader in the manufacture and sale of postcards in Germany.
Today's Schöning-Verlag was created through the concentration of two independent companies: the printing company Gebrüder Schmidt and the paper wholesaler Schöning. Founded in 1925 as a publishing house for postcards, the headquarters were on Glockengießerstrasse in Lübeck's old town.
In 1972 the company moved to a new building on the outskirts of Lübeck. By taking over numerous smaller regional publishers, including Andres Verlag Hamburg, Cramers Kunstanstalt Dortmund ( Cekade ), Edmund von König publishing house and Argentofot publishing house in Oberndorf, Black Forest, Schöning developed into the market leader for postcards. In 1997, the range comprised 40,000 motifs from 2,500 locations in Germany.
In the course of the expansion, the company concept was expanded in 1999 from a postcard publisher to a tourism publisher with the business fields of postcards, travel guides, calendars and souvenirs.
Individual evidence
- ^ Article ( Memento of November 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) of the Kieler Nachrichten
- ^ Julia Lauer: Kartenverlag Schöning: The business with the postcards. In: faz.net. January 6, 2011, accessed January 30, 2018 .
