Hamburg, 11 May 2012
This evening, the publishing house Gruner + Jahr and stern presented the eighth Henri Nannen Prizes for excellence in German-language print and online journalism. A total of 22 winners were honoured at a ceremony at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, with 1,200 prominent guests from the media, culture, political, and business community in attendance.  ...more

Hamburg, March 29, 2012
Gruner + Jahr looks back on a good fiscal 2011: G+J recorded a slight, mainly organic growth in revenues in the period under review, with the operating result remaining high and above the level of the pre-crisis years. Adjusted revenues reached a level of 2.29 billion Euro1 (2010: 2.26 billion Euro), operating EBIT was 233 million Euro (2010: 260 million Euro). Thus the operating result for 2011 again significantly exceeded pre-crisis levels. The anticipated decline was due to a significant increase in paper prices, higher development costs for digitization, a large number of innovative new publication titles as well as being due to weak market and business performance in Southern European markets and in the printing sector. Return on sales in the period under review reached a level of 10.2 percent, following 11.5 percent in the previous year.  ...more

Hamburg, 10 January 2012
The members of Gruner + Jahr AG's Supervisory Board yesterday elected Thomas Rabe (46) to serve as its chairman. Rabe, CEO at Bertelsmann AG, is taking over the role from Hartmut Ostrowski, who left the Supervisory Board as of 31 December 2011. Rabe will take up the position with immediate effect. In a parallel development, Thomas Hesse (45), currently president of global digital business and corporate strategy at Sony Music Entertainment, has been elected to the Supervisory Board of Gruner + Jahr AG as a new member in an extraordinary General Meeting.  ...more