Christian Media Foundation

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Christian Media Foundation
(SCM)
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legal form Church foundation under private law in North Rhine-Westphalia
founding June 2000
founder Friedhelm Loh
Seat Witten
main emphasis • Christian publishing / media and public relations work

• Development of missionary community work + networking of missionary initiatives, ideas, projects • Training of employees in the community and media area • Support of the diaconal mission of the churches • Promotion of theological training and further education

Chair Friedhelm Loh
Managing directors Jürgen Lawrenz
Website stiftung-christliche-medien.de

The Christian Media Foundation (SCM) is a non-profit, ecclesiastical foundation under private law based in Witten . It promotes Christian publishing work and is directly involved in the SCM Verlagsgruppe GmbH, the SCM Verlag gGmbH and the SCM Bundes-Verlag gGmbH. The operative publishing work of all companies is summarized under the name SCM publishing group.

These include the SCM-Verlag with the brands SCM Hänssler and SCM R. Brockhaus in Holzgerlingen and Witten, the magazine company SCM Bundes-Verlag in Witten and Gerth Medien with the publishing brand adeo in Asslar. According to its own statements, this makes the SCM publishing group the largest Protestant publishing group in Germany. The aim is to "promote Christian publishing, media and public relations work and to be open to all journalistic organizations that work on the basis of the German Evangelical Alliance ".

history

The foundation was established in June 2000. In November of the same year the Bundes-Verlag , R. Brockhaus Verlag and Oncken-Verlag joined the Christian Media Foundation . The latter two had been in close cooperation since 1970 and had been associated with the Bundes-Verlag since 1998. In December 2001 the ERF-Verlag of Evangeliums-Rundfunks in Wetzlar and in May 2002 the Hänssler-Verlag joined the publishing group.

In July 2003, the foundation, the sales and service company ICMedienhaus, was established, which had over 28,000 titles in stock and available for delivery from over 280 publishers and the largest range of bars in the Christian book trade. At the beginning of 2007 the four publishing houses (R. Brockhaus, ERF, Hänssler and Oncken) were merged to form SCM-Verlag . While the old publisher names were mostly converted into brands, Oncken was renamed SCM Collection and specialized as a gift label for the publisher. Today, the gift and non-book items only have the label of the umbrella brand SCM.

With the SCM Shops , a new end customer brand was founded for their bookshops in 2008. In 2009 the Liebenzeller Mission bookstore, which was 102 years old at the time, became an SCM Shop after it was taken over by the SCM publishing group .

In its press release of September 13, 2010, the Christian Media Foundation positioned itself with the operative publishing business as the largest evangelical publishing group. Of all German-language publishers, SCM was in 73rd place in the book report ranking . The turnover achieved in the 2018 financial year was more than 33 million euros. The SCM Verlagsgruppe took over the Johannis-Verlag from the St.-Johannis-Druckerei C. Schweickhardt and continued it as Edition Johannis within the own house brand SCM Collection . The gift and calendar publisher SKV-Edition of the same company was partly taken over as an addition to the selection of the SCM Collection . The sub-area SKV cards and stationery was taken over by Concepcion Seidel .

On July 1, 2016, the SCM publishing group took over the publishers Gerth Medien and adeo , which previously belonged to the Random House publishing group . The service company ICMedienhaus GmbH & Co. KG and SCM-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG were transferred to the SCM Verlagsgruppe GmbH in 2017. The logistics area and the delivery of ICMedienhaus GmbH & Co. KG was spun off into SCM Verlagsausgabe GmbH on July 1st. The SCM publishing group currently bundles all sales and marketing areas of the publishing group as well as the publishing houses with their brands and the logistics company SCM publishing house delivery. The SCM publishing group also operates the Jesus.de and amen.de portals on the Internet.

management

executive Director

The chairman of the board and founder of the foundation is Friedhelm Loh. Jürgen Lawrenz is the managing director.

The managing directors under the umbrella of the foundation in the SCM Verlagsgruppe GmbH are Klaus Jost (CEO), Marco Abrahms (CFO) and Ulrich Eggers (program director).

Board

The voluntary board of the foundation consists of:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical news agency idea (ed.): Most successful year for media foundation . Wetzlar 2011, p. 10 (edition: ideaSpektrum 5/2011).
  2. ↑ SCM-Verlag takes over the traditional Johannis brand. Christian Media Foundation, archived from the original on December 9, 2010 ; Retrieved December 9, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Press release of the SCM SCM publishing group takes over SKV-Edition , May 21, 2011 (accessed on: November 6, 2012).
  4. ↑ SCM publishing group takes over Gerth Medien. Press release of the Christian Media Foundation of June 3, 2016 (accessed: June 3, 2016)
  5. ↑ Christian Media Foundation: Change at the top , idea.de, news from November 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ The board of directors on the homepage of the Christian Media Foundation (accessed on November 6, 2012).

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