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Gruner + Jahr´s business activity is broken down into five divisions: G+J Germany; G+J International; G+J France; Corporate Services, and Holdings.
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G+J Germany bundles Gruner + Jahr´s domestic magazine activities. Chief Executive Officer Dr. Bernd Buchholz manages this division. 40 magazines in Germany, including the market-leading titles STERN, NEON, BRIGITTE, FINANCIAL TIMES DEUTSCHLAND, CAPITAL, IMPULSE, ELTERN, SCHÖNER WOHNEN, ESSEN & TRINKEN, GEO and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. All diversity aside, all of Gruner + Jahr´s magazines are strongly focused on quality and lead their respective market segments in terms of journalistic content and visual appeal. In addition to corporate publishing groups STERN/GEO/ART, Women/Family/People, Business Media, Living, Exclusive, and G+J Media Sales, G+J Germany also includes the marketing units that are part of Deutscher Pressevertrieb (DPV), the Entertainment Media Verlag, as well as Motor Presse Stuttgart where Gruner + Jahr is majority shareholder. The Operations Division, including IT and Internal Services, is also part of G+J Germany.
G+J International top
G+J International bundles Gruner + Jahr´s worldwide publishing activities outside the German market. Prisma Presse in Paris is the most important G+J publishing company abroad. As the second largest magazine publisher in France, Prisma Presse publishes more than 20 magazines, including FEMME ACTUELLE, TV GRANDES CHAÎNES, GEO, and CAPITAL. Including the international activities of Motorpresse Stuttgart, the international magazine portfolio comprises over 200 titles in 28 countries. Roughly 70 magazines are published in the eleven countries Austria, China, Italy, Croatia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Serbia and Slowenia where Gruner + Jahr has publishing operations of its own, including popular G+J titles like FOCUS, CLAUDIA and GALA BIOGRAFIE, and titles published under international license like GLAMOUR, COSMOPOLITAN and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Further more the international edition of GEO is published in more than 20 countries worldwide
Management Board member, Dr. Torsten-Jörn Klein, is in charge of this division.
Corporate Services (includes Newspapers) top
Corporate Services comprises the following sectors: Corporate Development / Corporate Strategy, Finance (including Corporate Finance and Accounting), Legal Department, Human Resources, Personnel Development, Print and the Paper Buying Department. The G+J shares in the regional daily papers (SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG and MORGENPOST SACHSEN) are managed as part of the newspaper sector. Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Achim Twardy, who is also responsible for the newspaper sector, is in charge of the Corporate Services division.
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Dr. Bernd Buchholz
Dr. Torsten-Jörn Klein
Achim Twardy
1948-1972
1973-1985
1986-1993
1994-1999
Since 2000
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