''Wirtschaftswoche'' is a

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weekly

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published in

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. “Wirtschaft” means

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(including business) and “Woche” is week.

History and profile

For many years, ''Wirtschaftswoche'' was published weekly on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in

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. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt which also publishes ''

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''. The magazine provides business- and economy-related news. Its target audience is managers and business people. In November 2014

Miriam Meckel Miriam Meckel (born 18 July 1967) is a German journalist and professor for Corporate Communication, editor and publisher of the German magazine ''Wirtschaftswoche'' and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the Univ ...

was appointed

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of the weekly. Under the leadership of Miriam Meckel, WirtschaftsWoche has gone through a major structural as well as design relaunch with edition 20/2015. The magazine has slightly changed its logo as part of this redesign.

Circulation

In the period of 2001-2002 ''Wirtschaftswoche'' had a circulation of 187,000 copies. For the first quarter of 2005 the circulation of the magazine was 183,156 copies, making it the best-selling weekly business publication in Germany. The circulation of ''Wirtschaftswoche'' was 182,603 copies in 2010. Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013. According to

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, ''Wirtschaftswoche'' is the main German business weekly.

Editor-in-chiefs

* since 1971 Peter Sweerts-Sporck, *since 1973

Claus Jacobi Claus Jacobi (4 January 1927 – 17 August 2013) was the editor of the German news magazine ''Der Spiegel'' from 1962–1968. He was arrested during the Spiegel scandal. Jacobi was born and died in Hamburg. In 1946, he started his journalistic ca ...

and Paul C. Martin, * since 1974 Hans Zinken, * since 1978 Karlheinz Vater,

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and Horst Kerlikowski, * since 1979 Karlheinz Vater, * since 1984 Wolfram Baentsch, * since 1991 Stefan Baron and Volker Wolff, * 1995–2007 Stefan Baron, * 2007–2014

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, * 2014–2017

, * since April 2017 Beat Balzli

References

External links

Official site
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History and profile

Circulation

Editor-in-chiefs

See also

References

External links