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发帖数: 9616 | 1 "NPG is a division of Macmillan Publishers, which in turn is owned by the
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group."
http://www.holtzbrinck.com/artikel/778435&s=en
HISTORY
A book club with a small publishing list was the foundation for the
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, now one of the leading global media
companies.
In 1948 the company founder Georg von Holtzbrinck together with the
Stuttgarter Hausbücherei and others laid the foundation of a large book
club.
From the late 1950s, this book club was called Deutscher Bücherbund. It
remained the biggest company in the publishing group until the mid-1980s.
In the 1960s the Deutscher Bücherbund took over S. Fischer Verlag, one of
Germany’s leading publishing companies. The acquisition of other publishing
interests followed, including companies such as Rowohlt, Droemer and
Kindler.
With the integration of Saarbrücker Zeitung and Handelsblatt in the years
between 1969 and 1971 a new chapter in the company’s history began.
In 1971, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH holding company was
founded. Its responsibility is to oversee the strategic development of the
publishing group, the involvement and development of entrepreneurial
executives, and the advice and control of subsidiaries.
In 1980 Dieter von Holtzbrinck took over leadership, he extended the
publishing activities in Germany and began to build an international
business.
In the mid-1980s the group started its US business with the acquisition of
Scientific American and Henry Holt publishers.
In 1989 the Deutscher Bücherbund was sold when it became clear that the
book club concept would struggle in the face of market developments and the
changing purchasing habits of customers.
During the mid 1990s, the acquisition of the international publishing group
Macmillan opened up expansion into countries and marktes in Asia, Africa,
Australia and Latin America.
In 2001 Dieter von Holtzbrinck laid the management of the group into the
hands of his brother Stefan von Holtzbrinck and has headed the supervisory
board of the company since.
In 2006 Dieter von Holtzbrinck left the Group and transferred his shares to
a family-owned trust. Since then, Monika Schoeller-von Holtzbrinck and Dr.
Stefan von Holtzbrinck each own 50% of the group.
Today the four areas of general interest publishing, education and science,
newspapers and business information, and electronic media and services have
become the foundations on which the long-term future of the publishing group
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