TeNeues publishing group

TeNeues publishing group
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1931
Seat	Kempen , Germany
management	Executive Director: Hendrik te Neues †; Uwe Kießling;
Number of employees	130 worldwide
Branch	publishing company
Website	www.teneues.com

The teNeues publishing group is a third generation family company founded in 1931 that has been publishing picture calendars and stationery products for over 50 years . The company's headquarters are in Kempen on the Lower Rhine. With further subsidiaries in New York, London and Paris, teNeues is an international company.

history

From 1897 Paul te Neues was a partner in the paper wholesaler J. Finck and Co. in Krefeld. Heinz te Neues, a son of Paul te Neues, joined the company at the age of 24 after completing his doctorate. Heinz te Neues founded the independent company Dr. te Neues & Co printing company as an offset printing company. The new company worked under one roof with the Finck company.

During the Nazi era, the company had difficulties due to advertising restrictions. However, among other things, maps were printed for the Air Force. In 1943 the printing plant in Krefeld was destroyed by a bomb attack. It was rebuilt in Kempen . Together with his son Manfred te Neues, Heinz te Neues developed a publishing program with art prints and school murals in 1950. The first teNeues art calendar appeared in 1958. At the end of the sixties greeting cards were added to the range. In 1977 Manfred te Neues founded te Neues Verlag, which was separated from the printing company.

In 1982 Manfred te Neues' eldest son Hendrik te Neues (1952–2019) founded the teNeues Publishing Company in New York as the first foreign subsidiary. Further subsidiaries in London and Paris followed later. In addition to calendars, art products such as cards, posters and blank books were produced and art books by European publishers were sold in the USA.

Manfred te Neues (center), founder of the publishing house and his two sons, Hendrik te Neues (left) and Sebastian te Neues (right), who meanwhile run the company.

In 1995 the first book brand teNeues followed in New York with a focus on photography. In the same year, Sebastian te Neues, the younger brother of Hendrik te Neues, joined the publishing group. In 1999 Manfred te Neues joined the company's advisory board, whose chairman is Werner Klatten , chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Sporthilfe .

The Publisher

TeNeues has been publishing picture calendars and stationery products such as blank books or greeting cards for over 50 years. The publishing group brings around 500 picture calendars from different subject areas (e.g. nature calendars from National Geographic, art calendars from Magritte or Keith Haring, comic calendars from Walt Disney or star calendars from the Beatles and Tokio Hotel) onto the market .

Around 60 titles appear each year under the teNeues brand, including bestsellers such as B. Eyes over Africa , Cool Hotels , Luxury Houses . Photographers who work with teNeues include Bruce Weber , Tim Walker, Russell James, Rankin, Elliott Erwitt , Martin Schoeller , Robert Mapplethorpe , Michael Poliza, and Matthew Rolston . In 2007 and 2008, Michael Poliza and Tim Walker each received the German Photo Book Prize for their works.

The group has 130 employees worldwide and operates shops in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. Thanks to its strong international presence, teNeues has over 200 license partners from a wide variety of areas such as B. Art, photography, comics, music, sports and entertainment. More than 70 countries are supplied through the subsidiaries, own representatives in direct sales and partner companies.

In addition to architecture, travel, nature, fashion and lifestyle illustrated books, teNeues also produces so-called corporate books, e.g. B. for BMW, Porsche, Lufthansa, Henkel, Schwarzkopf, Cartier, Hasselblad, Chopard, Ferrari, Dior or Swarovski.

In 2009 teNeues took over the Domberger Kalenderverlag. In 2010 teNeues entered into a sales cooperation with Knesebeck-Verlag.

Since March 2011 there is a branch of teNeues in Berlin, teNeues Digital Media. This is increasingly concerned with app development, marketing strategies and the design and production of travel guides (Cool Cities series).

On January 1, 2015, the calendar and office supplies division was taken over by Dr. Neumann-Wolff AG bought up.