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Wirtschaftswoche

German weekly business news magazine


German weekly business news magazine

FieldValue
titleWirtschaftswoche
logo[[File:WirtschaftsWoche Logo.png200pxWirtschaftsWoche Logo]]
editorHorst von Buttlar
editor_titleEditor-in-chief
publisherHandelsblatt Media Group
frequencyWeekly
circulation155,085 (for the second half of 2013)
categoryBusiness magazine
founded1926
countryGermany
basedDüsseldorf
languageGerman
website
issn0042-8582
oclc621739859

Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine published in Germany. Wirtschaft means “economy” (including business), and Woche is “week”.

History and profile

For many years, Wirtschaftswoche was published weekly on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in Düsseldorf. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt,

The magazine provides business- and economy-related news. Under the leadership of Miriam Meckel, WirtschaftsWoche has gone through a major structural as well as design relaunch with edition 20/2015. The magazine has slightly changed its logo as part of this redesign.

Circulation

In the period of 2001–2002, Wirtschaftswoche had a circulation of 187,000 copies. For the first quarter of 2005 the circulation of the magazine was 183,156 copies, making it the best-selling weekly business publication in Germany.

The circulation of Wirtschaftswoche was 182,603 copies in 2010. Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013.

According to Ronald P. Dore, Wirtschaftswoche is the main German business weekly.

Editor-in-chiefs

  • since 1971 Peter Sweerts-Sporck,
  • since 1973 Claus Jacobi and Paul C. Martin,
  • since 1974 Hans Zinken,
  • since 1978 Karlheinz Vater, Conrad Ahlers and Horst Kerlikowski,
  • since 1979 Karlheinz Vater,
  • since 1984 Wolfram Baentsch,
  • since 1991 Stefan Baron and Volker Wolff,
  • 1995–2007 Stefan Baron,
  • 2007–2014 Roland Tichy,
  • 2014–2017 Miriam Meckel,
  • since April 2017 Beat Balzli

References

References

  1. (1 January 2001). "Annotated Texts for Translation: English-German : Functionalist Approaches Illustrated". Multilingual Matters.
  2. (10 November 2014). "Miriam Meckel becomes Chief Editor of Wirtschaftswoche". EFE.
  3. Schaffrinna, von Achim. (2015-05-13). "Die WirtschaftsWoche hat ein neues Design".
  4. "Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)". Magazine Organization.
  5. "Focus Money Profile". Media Line.
  6. "World Magazine Trends 2010/2011". FIPP.
  7. (2014). "WirtschaftsWoche". IQ Media.
  8. Dore, Ronald. (2000). "Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons". [[Oxford University Press]].
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