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| Company type | Private |
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| Predecessor | Verlag Heinz Heise |
| Founded | 1949; 76 years ago (1949) inHanover, Germany |
| Founder | Heinz Heise |
| Headquarters | Hanover ,Germany |
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Key people | Ansgar Heise[1] |
| Revenue | €193.8 million (2020) |
| Owner | Heise family |
Number of employees | 1,085 (2020) |
| Website | www |
Heise Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG is a Germanmedia conglomerate headquartered inHanover. It was founded in 1949 by Heinz Heise and is stillfamily-owned. Its core business is directory media as well as general-interest and specialist media from the fields of computer technology, information technology and network culture. Another focus of its business activities is portals for price and product comparisons.
In 1949,Heinz Heise [Wikidata] founded the publishing house named after him inHanover-Badenstedt.[2] The company's first product was an address book for the town ofBünde, later joined by the telephone directory forEinbeck. Gradually, other cities and regions were added to the product range. In addition, Heise expanded the program to include non-fiction topics, such as manuals on law. By 1960, sales had risen to over one million marks.
In 1972, Heinz Heise handed over the management of the company to his sonChristian [Wikidata]. Under his leadership, a magazine for electronics and technology topics, was created. The first issue of the computer magazinec't appeared in 1983,[3] followed by the professional magazineiX in 1988.[4] Both publications are still around today. Later, the IT sector was further expanded with the acquisition of the Heidelberg-based Dpunkt Verlag.[5]
After the fall of theBerlin Wall, Heise expanded into the states of the formerEastern Bloc. In 1992, the company took over the long-establishedHinstorff [Wikidata] publishing house in Rostock.[6] Having previously invested in regional radio stations, Heise participated in the founding ofRadio 21 [Wikidata], a private radio station in Lower Saxony, in year 2000. Additionally, Heise invested in digital business models with partner publishers:Das Örtliche [Wikidata] andDas Telefonbuch [Wikidata] appeared online for the first time. The news portalheise.de was created and supplemented byTelepolis and other channels. The MIT magazineTechnology Review, whose German-language version has been published by Heise since 2003, was widely recognized.[7]
In recent years, price comparison portals have taken on greater importance at Heise. The company has stakes inbilliger.de,[8]guenstiger.de andgeizhals.at.[9]
Heise publishesDas Örtliche andDas Telefonbuch as well as theGelbe Seiten in joint editorial and publishing partnership with Deutsche Tele Medien. The media are published in printed form, as a web application and for mobile devices. In addition to a simple entry, Heise offers small and medium-sized companies a wide range ofonline marketing services.[10]
The IT news portalheise.de is leading in German-speaking countries.[11] It also includes the media brands c't, iX, Make, Mac & i,[12] Technology Review, heise Autos, TechStage and Telepolis.[13][14] The company uses the brands both online and for magazines, as well as for events, especially congresses, conferences, seminars and workshops, includingHeise Adacemy.
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