Bertelsmann Printing Group

German printing company

Bertelsmann Printing Group

Company type| Subsidiary
Industry| Printing
Predecessor| Be Printers
Founded| January 1, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-01-01) in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany[1]
Headquarters|

Gütersloh

Germany

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Axel Hentrei (CEO)[2]
Revenue| €1.624 billion (2016)[3]

Number of employees

| 8,138 (2016)[3]
Parent| Bertelsmann
Subsidiaries| AZ Direct
Berryville Graphics
Quad Graphics
Campaign
Coral Graphics
DeutschlandCard
GGP Media
MBS Nürnberg
Mohn Media
Offset Paperback Manufacturers (OPM)
Prinovis
rtv media group
Sonopress
Vogel Druck
Website| www.bertelsmann-printing-group.com

The Bertelsmann Printing Group is a German group of companies in the printing industry with headquarters in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia.[4][5] It was established in 2016 and is the market leader in Europe among offset and gravure printing companies.[6][7] The Bertelsmann Printing Group is one of eight divisions of Bertelsmann, the international media, service and education conglomerate.[8]

## History

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In 2005, Bertelsmann and Axel Springer consolidated their gravure printing operations under the umbrella of Prinovis.[9] Reasons for this included the industry-wide price decline and overcapacities.[10] The Hamburg-based company was marked leader in Europe from the beginning.[11][12] Bertelsmann indirectly owned 74.9 percent, with the subsidiaries Arvato and Gruner + Jahr each holding a 37.45 percent stake. Axel Springer owned the remaining 25.1 percent.[13] In 2012, Prinovis became part of Be Printers, a newly-established division of Bertelsmann for the majority of the printing companies.[14][15] This move was part of a larger reorganization of Bertelsmann under CEO Thomas Rabe who assumed his position in 2012.[16] In 2015, Axel Springer sold its stake in Prinovis,[17] making Bertelsmann the sole shareholder.[18] In the process, Bertelsmann gained the opportunity to further streamline its printing operations.[19]

Shortly after the restructuring, Bertelsmann announced in 2015 the establishment of the Bertelsmann Printing Group, effective January 1, 2016.[20] All printing companies of Be Printers and the printing operations previously belonging to the sister division Arvato were bundled under the umbrella of the new corporate group.[21] Several other service and production businesses, e.g. storage media manufacturer Sonopress, followed.[22][23] At the time of its founding, the Bertelsmann Printing Group earned annual revenues of some €1.7 billion and had more than 8,000 employees.[24] Independent of the merger, the brands of the individual printing companies, service and production operations remained intact.[25] Over the course of the business year, it had a significant positive effect on the profit situation of the entire corporate group.[26][27] In 2017, additional companies from the digital marketing business of Arvato have changed over to the Bertelsmann Printing Group.[28]

## Structure

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Since 2016, the Bertelsmann Printing Group has been one of Bertelsmann's eight corporate divisions.[29][30] It encompasses all of Bertelsmann's worldwide offset and gravure operations, as well as several other service and production businesses.[31] The subsidiaries are AZ Direct, Berryville Graphics, Campaign, Coral Graphics, DeutschlandCard, GGP Media, MBS Nürnberg, Mohn Media, Offset Paperback Manufacturers (OPM), Prinovis, the rtv media group, Sonopress and Vogel Druck.[32] Today, in the USA, the company primarily functions as a house printer for the company’s book publishing division.

Initially, the Bertelsmann Printing Group was led by Bertram Stausberg and Axel Hentrei as two equal Chief Executive Officers.[33] Since Bertram Stausberg stepped down in the fall of 2016, Axel Hentrei has solely headed up the group.[34][35] The headquarters are located in Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße in Gütersloh.[36] In total the group is active at 15 facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Mexico and Asia.[37]

## References

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1. ^ "Bertelsmann bündelt Druckgeschäft". Börsenblatt (in German). November 5, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
2. ^ Stefan Schelp (September 30, 2016). "Bertelsmann: Wechsel an Spitze der Drucksparte". Neue Westfälische (in German). Retrieved January 17, 2017.
3. ^ a b "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Bertelsmann. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
4. ^ "Bertelsmann vereinigt seine Drucksparte". Deutscher Drucker (in German). November 12, 2015. p. 4.
5. ^ Jo Francis (November 5, 2015). "Bertelsmann to merge print operations". PrintWeek. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
6. ^ Eike Horstmann (November 6, 2015). "Europas größte Druckereigruppe". Neue Westfälische (in German). p. 11.
7. ^ "Bertelsmann schafft größte Druckerei-Gruppe Europas". Buchreport (in German). November 6, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
8. ^ "Neue Print-Einheit: Bertelsmann baut Druckgeschäft um". Handelsblatt (in German). November 5, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
9. ^ "Gemeinsamer Tiefdruck-Riese heißt Prinovis". Neue Westfälische (in German). May 11, 2005.
10. ^ "Bertelsmann greift durch". Manager Magazin (in German). September 14, 2007. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
11. ^ "Neuer Druckkonzern hat Sitz in Hamburg". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). July 27, 2005. p. 24.
12. ^ "Druckkonzern Prinovis startet aggressiv". Financial Times Deutschland (in German). July 27, 2005.
13. ^ "Neues Tiefdruck-Unternehmen trägt den Namen Prinovis". Deutscher Drucker (in German). May 19, 2005. p. 7.
14. ^ "Bertelsmann-Druckeinheit heißt jetzt Be Printers". Börsenblatt (in German). October 31, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
15. ^ "Bertelsmann tauft Drucksparte Be Printers". Neue Westfälische (in German). November 1, 2012.
16. ^ Stefan Schelp (March 19, 2013). "Im Kreise der Familie". Neue Westfälische (in German).
17. ^ "Prinovis nun ohne Springer". Nürnberger Nachrichten (in German). October 6, 2015. p. 17.
18. ^ Jörn Poltz (October 6, 2015). "Von Springer zu Bertelsmann". Luxemburger Tageblatt (in German).
19. ^ "Bertelsmann übernimmt Tiefdruck-Beteiligung von Springer". Handelsblatt (in German). October 5, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
20. ^ "Bertelsmann baut um". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). November 6, 2015. p. 36.
21. ^ "Bertelsmann bündelt Druckgeschäft". Südwest Presse (in German). November 6, 2015. p. 10.
22. ^ Ludger Osterkamp (January 6, 2016). "Sonopress kehrt zu seinem Namen zurück". Neue Westfälische (in German). Retrieved January 17, 2017.
23. ^ "Bertelsmann ordnet Druckgeschäft neu". Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (in German). November 6, 2015.
24. ^ Petra Ebeling (November 5, 2015). "Bertelsmann führt Print-Aktivitäten zusammen". Deutscher Drucker (in German). Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
25. ^ "Bertelsmann baut seinen Druckbereich um". Nürnberger Nachrichten (in German). November 6, 2015. p. 21.
26. ^ "Bertelsmann steigert Gewinn um 20 Prozent". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). September 1, 2016.
27. ^ Annika Böhringer (August 31, 2016). "Bertelsmann: Weitgehend stabile Druckgeschäfte". Deutscher Drucker (in German). Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
28. ^ Volker Scharninghausen (January 31, 2017). "Dirk Kemmerer von Arvato Digital Marketing zur Bertelsmann Printing Group". New Business (in German). Retrieved March 1, 2017.
29. ^ Kai-Hinrich Renner (March 23, 2016). "Bertelsmann sortiert sich neu". Handelsblatt (in German). p. 24.
30. ^ "Bertelsmann Printing Group seit Januar als eigener Unternehmensbereich". Buchmarkt (in German). January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
31. ^ "Interim Report 2016" (PDF). Bertelsmann. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
32. ^ "Geschäftseinheiten" (in German). Bertelsmann Printing Group. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
33. ^ "Drucken im Spiegel der Zeit". Neue Westfälische (in German). June 29, 2016. p. 12.
34. ^ "Co-Chef Stausberg verlässt Bertelsmann". Deutscher Drucker (in German). October 13, 2016. p. 4.
35. ^ Juliane Paperlein (October 6, 2016). "Hentrei führt Bertelsmann Printing Group alleine". Horizont (in German). p. 12.
36. ^ "Impressum" (in German). Bertelsmann Printing Group. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
37. ^ "Bertelsmann Printing Group: A New Printing Powerhouse". Bertelsmann. Retrieved January 20, 2017.

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