Finance:Wirtschaftswoche
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| Editor-in-chief | Beat Balzli |
|---|---|
| Categories | Business magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 155,085 (for the second half of 2013) |
| Publisher | Miriam Meckel |
| Year founded | 1926 |
| Country | Germany |
| Based in | Düsseldorf |
| Language | German |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0042-8582 |
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[1][2] on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in Düsseldorf. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt[1] which also publishes Handelsblatt.[3]
The magazine provides business- and economy-related news.[2] Its target audience is managers and business people.[2][4] In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.[5] 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.[1] 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.[6]
The circulation of Wirtschaftswoche was 182,603 copies in 2010.[4] Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013.[7]
According to Ronald P. Dore, Wirtschaftswoche is the main German business weekly.[8]
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
See also
- List of magazines in Germany
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)" (Report). Magazine Organization. http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/top50finance.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Christina Schäffner; Uwe Wiesemann (1 January 2001). Annotated Texts for Translation: English-German : Functionalist Approaches Illustrated. Multilingual Matters. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-85359-406-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=xaY-HPPsvHcC&pg=PA102. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
- ↑ "Handelsblatt and WiWo continue to lead the German market". Advance Media. http://www.advance.uk.com/news.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "World Magazine Trends 2010/2011". FIPP. http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf.
- ↑ "Miriam Meckel becomes Chief Editor of Wirtschaftswoche". EFE. 10 November 2014. https://efeurope.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/miriam-meckel-becomes-chief-editor-of-wirtschaftswoche/.
- ↑ "Focus Money Profile". Media Line. http://www.medialine.de/media/uploads/projekt/medialine/docs/service/bestellung_download/englisch/2_Object%20Information/2_FOCUS-MONEY/focus_money_object_profile.pdf.
- ↑ "WirtschaftsWoche". IQ Media. 2014. http://www.iqm.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Sonstige/International/Downloads/Rate_card_WW_2014_.pdf.
- ↑ Dore, Ronald (2000). Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons. Oxford University Press. pp. 172. ISBN 9780199240623.
External links
- (in German) Official site
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