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Gruner + Jahr<br />

Th e printing and publishing company Gruner + Jahr is Europe’s biggest publisher of magazines and periodicals. G+J reaches<br />

readers and users in over 30 countries with more than 500 magazines and digital off erings. G+J’s holdings include Dresdner<br />

Druck- und Verlagshaus (60 percent), Motor Presse Stuttgart (59.9 percent) and Europe’s largest gravure printing group, Prinovis<br />

Ltd. & Co. KG (37.45 percent). In 2009, G+J generated revenues of 2.5 billion euros. International revenues amounted to<br />

54.4 percent. Bertelsmann AG owns 74.9 percent of Gruner + Jahr, the Jahr publishing family of Hamburg owns 25.1 percent.<br />

€2,508 million revenues €203 million operating EBIT 13,571 employees worldwide<br />

»Our goal is to safeguard our quality media as a guarantor for diversity of opinion in the future.<br />

Competent journalists are essential for achieving this goal, but economic independence and<br />

long-term profi tability are crucial as well. We resolutely countered the crisis, so that our operating<br />

profi t has held up well overall despite extremely weak ad sales markets.«<br />

bernd buchholz, CEO, Gruner + Jahr<br />

Bertelsmann Annual Report 2009

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