Word: jahred
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...family is headed by Reinhard Mohn, 81, who built a 19th century printer of church hymnals into one of Germany's most successful private companies, with interests from magazines and newspapers in its Gruner + Jahr subsidiary to its record and music company BMG, which includes recording stars like Christina Aguliera and Whitney Houston. Last year the company had earnings of €970 on revenues of €20 billion...
...Standard's demise underscores the challenges confronting the last few mainstream New Economy journals: Red Herring, Fast Company (bought last year by Gruner & Jahr), Wired and Business 2.0. Their ad slump is not as severe as the Standard's, but is still daunting (20%, 31%, 32% and 44% drops from January through July, respectively). But Fast Company and the Herring are older, more established magazines with lower costs, and Conde Nast's Wired and AOL Time Warner's Business 2.0 have potential subscription draws and advertising leverage from the many properties of their parents...
...held company had sales of $13.7 billion and profits of $480 million. Its empire stretches from John Grisham's novels (Random House) to Whitney Houston's hit tunes (BMG), and from Family Circle magazine to Germany's most prominent publications, like the provocative newsweekly Stern (both owned by Gruner + Jahr). Through a joint venture with British media giant Pearson PLC in the RTL Group, the company owns syndication rights to a vast universe of television programs, including Baywatch and The Price Is Right. And Bertelsmann also does a multibillion-dollar global business in printing and publishing services; the magazine...