Hamburg, April 1, 2004
Gruner + Jahr continues its innovation campaign in France. In the wake of the exceedingly successful launch of the innovative TV guide TÉLÉ 2 SEMAINES, TV GRANDES CHAÎNES will hit French newsstands on April 5 as part of a nationwide test.  ...more

Hamburg, February 5, 2004
The introduction of France´s first bi-weekly TV guide by the Gruner + Jahr subsidiary Prisma Presse has broken all previous records. The premier issue of TÉLÉ 2 SEMAINES, which hit newsstands on Jan 5 at a cover price of €1, sold more than a million copies.  ...more

Hamburg, March 23, 2007
Gruner + Jahr´s growth was faster than that of any other German major publisher for the second consecutive year, forcefully underscoring its position as Europe´s biggest magazine publisher and Germany´s highestsales publishing house. Results were the highest they have been since 2000, the year of the Internet boom. Profitability also increased for the second year running.  ...more

Hamburg, February 1, 2007
Gruner + Jahr is acquiring the majority of shares in the Entertainment Media Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Munich (EMV), retroactively to Jan 1, 2007. The selling parties are the imprint´s founder and managing partner Ulrich Scheele (15.05 percent) and his longtime partner, the Ebner Ulm publishing group (82.85 percent). This gives G+J a roughly 98-percent majority in EMV. Approximately two percent of the shares will continue to be owned by Ulrich Scheele, who will continue to run the imprint as its Managing Director. The purchase is subject to antitrust approval.  ...more

Hamburg, February 7, 2005
Gruner + Jahr is investing in the future of its American print subsidiary Brown Printing (BPC): As part of an investment project, it plans to install two state-of-the-art offset rotary presses at its production plant in Waseca, Minnesota. The print finishing capacities, too, will be expanded by two modern adhesive binder lines, a flowline trimmer and an automatically equipped high-rack warehouse with automated guided vehicles.  ...more

Hamburg, January 11, 2005
Gruner + Jahr is furthering its expansion in 2005 and will start publishing the internationally successful women´s magazine GLAMOUR in Holland under license from Condé Nast this fall. In the wake of the highly successful Polish edition of GLAMOUR, this is the second international collaboration between the two publishers. In Poland, GLAMOUR was voted "Magazine Launch of the Year 2003" and currently sells 203,717 copies per issue.  ...more

New York, February 17, 2004
Axel Ganz, President of Gruner + Jahr´s International Magazine Division and interim Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr USA, announced the appointment of Cindy Still to Executive Vice President, Consumer Marketing. In this role, Still, who joins Gruner + Jahr USA from Time 4 Media, a division of Time Inc., will oversee circulation and consumer marketing functions for all Gruner + Jahr USA titles.  ...more

Paris, 1. Juli 2003
Each Wednesday from July 2 for eight weeks, famous French stars will present their favorite holiday towns or regions in GALA. This new section will be entitled "Postcards from the stars". With four pages of fantastic photos, information and useful addresses, you can experience and learn to love a region through the eyes of a well-known personality. On the agenda are Francis Perrin and Le Touquet, Laurent Bourgnon and La Trinité-sur-Mer and Michel Leeb and Le Cap-Ferret among others. These places can also be seen on RTL´s weekly program "Summer detours".  ...more

Paris, May 12, 2003
Anyone who has read GEO´s gripping travel reports about distant places and undiscovered paradises is familiar with the acute wanderlust the magazine provokes with its well researched and compellingly written articles. Now, Prisma Presse has bundled French GEO´s collected expertise in matters of travel and discovery into GEOGUIDES, a branded travel book series in collaboration with Gallimard book publishers.   ...more

Paris, March 7, 2003
From March 11 2003 and from its 889th issue onwards, the weekly television magazine Télé-Loisirs will be available in Belgium. Supplied to more than 500 French-speaking distributors and available every Wednesday, it will cost 1.20 Euro.  ...more

Leur complémentarité et leur savoir-faire donneront naissance au projet éditorial le plus ambitieux depuis dix ans sur le marché des guides touristiques : des efforts particuliers sont fournis tant dans la recherche des informations sur le terrain que dans la qualité du graphisme et de la mise en page.
Les premiers titres de la collection, provisoirement intitulée Geoguide Gallimard, paraîtront au printemps 2003.  ...more

Hamburg, 10 July 2002
The Elbe generally fulfills EU guidelines for bathing water in terms of pollution. However, it is in the nature of things that the Elbe, as a flowing river, is subject to strong currents and it isfor this reason that only some rivers in Germany can be identified as EU bathing water. Local features, extreme rainfall or water temperature can cause the limits to be exceeded at any time along the river, which is more than 1,000 km long.  ...more

Hamburg, 19 June 2002
The e-paper SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG product already fulfills the basic requirements for a future inclusion of electronic newspaper and magazine editions in IVW circulation measurements. This is why the the e-paper solution from Gruner + Jahr`s Dresden printing and publishing company is at the head of the pack compared to other competing models. In a letter to the publishers, the IVW announced that electronic issues of press products will be recorded in its figures in the future. With the 1-to-1 transfer of the print edition, payable delivery and offline availability, the current e-paper edition of the SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG has been meeting the most important IVW criteria since January 2002. Once detailed guidelines are developed by the IVW, digital circulation and printed circulation will be recorded separately.  ...more