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Heise (officially ''Heise Gruppe'', formerly ''Verlag Heinz Heise'') is a German
media conglomerate A media conglomerate, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet. According to the ...
headquartered in
Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
,
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
. It was founded in 1949 by and is still family-owned. Its core business is directory media as well as general-interest and specialist media from the fields of computer technology,
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, and
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. Another focus of its business activities is portals for price and product comparisons.


History

In 1949, Heinz Heise founded the publishing house named after him in Hanover-Badenstedt. The company's first product was an address book for the town of Bünde, later joined by the telephone directory for
Einbeck Einbeck (; Eastphalian: ''Aimbeck'') is a town in the district Northeim, in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, on the German Timber-Frame Road. History Prehistory The area of the current city of Einbeck is inhabited since prehistoric times. Vario ...
. 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 son Christian. Under his leadership, a magazine for electronics and technology topics, was created. The first issue of the computer magazine
c't ''c't'' – ' (''Magazine for Computer Technology'') is a German computer magazine, published by the Heinz Heise publishing house. The 5.71 meter high tower from the 587 published c't editions up to the 30th anniversary has been in the foyer ...
appeared in 1983, followed by the professional magazine iX in 1988. Both publications are still around today. Later, the IT sector was further expanded with the acquisition of the Heidelberg-based . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Heise expanded into the states of the former
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. In 1992, the company took over the long-established publishing house in
Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, ...
. Having previously invested in regional radio stations, Heise participated in the founding of Radio 21, the third private radio station in Lower Saxony, in 2000. In addition, Heise invested in digital business models with partner publishers: and appeared online for the first time. The news portal
Heise Online Heise (officially ''Heise Gruppe'', formerly ''Verlag Heinz Heise'') is a German media conglomerate headquartered in Hanover, Lower Saxony. It was founded in 1949 by and is still family-owned. Its core business is directory media as well as ge ...
was created and supplemented by
Telepolis ''Telepolis'' is a German Internet magazine, published by the Heinz Heise Verlag since the beginning of 1996. It was founded by journalists Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and ge ...
and other channels. This was joined by content from the MIT magazine
Technology Review ''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" i ...
, whose German-language version has been published by Heise since 2003. In recent years, price comparison portals have taken on greater importance at Heise. The company has stakes in ''billiger.de'', ''guenstiger.de'', and ''geizhals.at''.


Publications

Heise publishes “Das Örtliche” and “Das Telefonbuch” as well as the “ Gelbe 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 of online marketing services. Heise Online is one of the widest-reach editorial IT news portals in the German-speaking world. It also includes the media brands c't, iX, and others. The company uses the brands both online and for magazines, as well as for events, especially congresses, conferences, seminars and workshops. In 2020, Heise launched Heise Academy, an e-learning platform for IT professionals.


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* {{Authority control Companies established in 1949 Companies based in Hanover Publishing companies of Germany Mass media in Hanover