Gruner + Jahr (Germany)

Gruner + Jahr is Europe's largest magazine publisher, with a portfolio of more than 300 periodicals spread across 24 countries, mainly in continental Europe. It operates as a division of German media giant Bertelsmann. G+J's most significant operations are in Germany, where titles include Stern, Brigitte and Auto-Motor und Sport, and in France, where subsidiary Prisma Presse is that country's second biggest magazine publisher. Among the group's comparatively rare failures has been its inability to establish a solid presence in English-speaking markets. It quit the UK in 2000, and closed down operations in the US in 2005.

Gruner + Jahr has a dominant position in several countries across Europe, and also has a small but expanding presence in Asia. It is one of the pioneers within Europe of multi-market brands, having successfully rolled out several of its key titles into a series of local markets. These include the science title Geo (now with editions in more than 20 countries including Germany, France, Spain, Russia and Korea, as well as India in 2008 and Brazil from 2009), women's magazine Gala (Germany, France, Poland, Russia and Spain), business magazine Capital (now published in Germany, France and Spain, among others) and National Geographic (published under license in Germany, Netherlands, France and Poland).

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Stern	Cosmopolitan (Spain)
Brigitte	Financial Times Deutschland
Tele 2 Semaines	TV Media (Austria)
Flora	P.M. Magazin
Geo	Femme Actuelle
National Geographic	Gala
Geo Saison	Woman
Muy Interesante (Spain)	Der Spiegel
Oskar's	Online Today

Bertelsmann

Prisma Presse (France)	G+J Spain
G+J Poland

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