In a joint venture with the London-based Pearson media group, G+J brings the financial times deutschland (ftd) to newsstands. The technology- focused consumer magazine jack is launched in Italy, and national geographic makes its debut in the Netherlands. In Germany, living at home and its homepage are introduced to the market.

The internationalization of popular magazine brands continues with gala in Poland and Russia. Following the merger with the Kurier group and the launch of woman magazine, the NEWS publishing group in Austria has 14 magazines in its portfolio.

The launch of the parenting magazine fumu parents represents the second step in entering the Chinese magazine market.

glamour is launched under license in Poland. neon magazine is piloted in Germany and has been published monthly since February 2004. national geographic world launches in November 2003 as a bilingual popular-science magazine for children. essen&trinken für jeden tag makes its debut.

The launch of 23 magazine titles worldwide sets a new record for the publisher. In France, Prisma Média launches the tv guides télé 2 semaines and tv grandes chaînes. quest makes its debut in the Netherlands. In Germany, geo kompakt becomes the ninth title in the popular geo family. G+J acquires the majority of shares in Motor Presse Stuttgart.

G+J launches 16 new magazines in eleven countries, including view in Germany, glamour in the Netherlands, and an international geo edition in the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and Turkey. G+J and Sanoma International establish a joint venture in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.

G+J launches dogs in Germany. By acquiring a stake in boda with its titles fushi meirong, yi ren, xiangfeng, jia ju, G+J reaches market leadership in the women’s segment in China.

G+J invests heavily in expanding the websites of its major brands. In January, G+J Germany bought up Entertainment Media Verlag. Acquisitions such as chefkoch.de, xx-well.com and programmetv. net further enhance G+J’s position in the online market. gala makes its newsstand debut in Serbia and Croatia. The upscale magazine first is launched in Austria.

The remainder of shares in ftd is acquired at the beginning of the year. In Germany, G+J Media Sales taps into another line of business by acquiring the performance-marketing company Ligatus. G+J's first international online project, the "Parenting Network," goes live in seven countries. A central Business editorial office in Hamburg is put in charge of producing the four business publications capital, impulse, börse online and ftd.

G+J overcomes the economic crisis, launching five new magazines in the German market: nido, geomini, beef!, galamen and business punk. G+J Media Sales adopts a new marketing structure. G+J’s corporate publishing unit expands its portfolio of services and is renamed G+J Corporate Editors. The G+J International division is expanded to include G+J publishing activities in France. G+J withdraws from the Russian market. Reinhard Mohn dies on October 3 at age 88.

2010 G+J uses its innovative talents in various areas of activity. In Germany, it acquires the quality soccer magazine 11 freunde and launches the stern children’s magazine yuno. Three new titles geo voyage, geo histoire and memo debut in France. G+J systematically expands its digital offerings by launching stern eMag and iPad apps for gala, national geographic, geo and geo international as well as news, geo France and muy interesante. All G+J iPad apps are paid apps. G+J sales subsidiary dpv Deutscher Pressevertrieb and DirectGroup Bertelsmann launch the publisher-independent online platform pubbles to sell media brands and books. G+J reports very satisfactory sales and sales unit activities in 2010: G+J Corporate Editors acquired more than 20 new clients. The same number was acquired by G+J publishing companies in France, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, the Slovak Republic, Serbia, Spain and Austria. G+J Media Sales wins the distinction "Best Marketer" in an industry-wide ranking, ems is nominated "Biggest Mobile Marketer" and dpv "Best Sales Provider." 2010 is a year of anniversaries for strong G+J brands in Germany: 50 years of schöner wohnen, 30 years of impulse and entertainment media; 25 years of flora garten, 10 years of living at home, brigitte woman and financial times deutschland. Anniversaries of international titles: 40 years of profil in Austria, 15 years of focus in Poland, 10 years of national geographic in Belgium/The Netherlands and of parents in China. Richard Gruner dies on January 13 at age 84. Along with John Jahr senior and Gerd Bucerius, he founded Gruner + Jahr in 1965 and gave the publishing house its name.

G+J continues to invest in its publishing future by launching and buying more than 20 new titles worldwide, including the magazines grazia, yuno, jamie and p.m. cit in Germany. G+J expands in India and acquires 78.75 percent of the MaXposure Media Group India Pvt. Ltd., a mediumsized publishing company with strong premium brands in print and online, a broad corporate publishing portfolio, a total of 13 magazine titles and excellent marketing. The digital communities continue to see growth: G+J acquires the family community urbia.de, an ad-funded online portal for young parents, expectant mothers and couples planning to have children. The acquisition of urbia.de sees G+J substantially expanding its leadership in the parenting segment. In the fall, G+J finalizes the sale to Arvato of its 37.45 percent stake in the gravure joint venture Prinovis.