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This chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
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antecedents
1786 Vieweg publishing house founded
1842 Julius Springer (1847-77) opens bookshop in Berlin,
founds Springer-Verlag
1858 sells bookshop to specialise in publishing
1859 launches Pharmazeutische Centralhalle für Deutschland
1875 publishes Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis
1879 Birkhäuser founded
1889 A. E. Kluwer founds Kluwer publishing house
1917 Springer buys JF Bergman Verlag (est 1878)
1918 Ferdinand Springer founds Mathematische Zeitschrift
1920 Springer acquires Mathematische Annalen
journal
1920 acquires Archiv für pathologische Anatomie
1921 acquires August Hirschwald Verlag
1924 founding of Springer-Verlag Vienna
1931 acquires FCW Vogel Verlag (est 1730)
1935 Aryanisation of Springer Verlag by German government
revival
1946 Springer opens offices in Göttingen and Heidelberg
1947 Robert Maxwell (through
European Periodicals, Publicity & Advertising Co (EPPAC))
becomes UK distributor for Springer
1948 EPPAC absorbed by Lange, Maxwell & Springer
1948 Butterworth-Springer formed
1951 Maxwell gains control of UK joint venture, renamed
Pergamon Press
1953 Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften
publishing house founded
1957 Heinz Götze (1912-2001) becomes partner in Springer
Verlag
1964 founding of Springer-Verlag New York
1970 Bertelsmann buys Verlag Heinrich Vogel (founded 1935)
1973 Bertelsmann buys Münchener Medizin Verlag, successor
to Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift (founded
1853)
1974 Bertelsmann acquires Vieweg publishing house
1977 Bertelsmann acquires majority shares in ibau publishing
house (gains remainder in 1994)
1977 Springer acquires Eastern Book Service in Tokyo
1978 Bertelsmann absorbs Gabler Verlag ( founded 1929)
1979 Bertelsmann absorbs Heinze Verlag
1980 Springer buys Steinkopff Verlag (est 1898)
1983 Springer absorbs economics publiser Physica
1986 Springer-Verlag France founded
1989 Bertelsmann acquires 100% of Ärzte Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft
1990 Bertelsmann founds Etrasa, Spanish driving school
publishing house
1992 Bertelsmann founds Czech driving school publishing
house Vogel Media
1994 Bertelsmann buys French publisher Codes Rousseau.
1994 Springer acquires Munich medical publisher Urban
& Vogel
1994 Bertelsmann buys 50% of Groupe Impact Médecin,
Paris
1980 Springer acquires Steinkopff publishing house in
Darmstadt
1983 founding of Springer Tokyo
1985 Springer acquires Birkhäuser
1994 Bertelsmann buys French specialist publishing house
Codes Rousseau and 50% of Groupe Impact Médecin
1994 Bertelsmann buys German publisher Ibau
1998 Wolters Kluwer abandons
proposed merger with Reed Elsevier
1998 Bertelsmann buys Random House from Advance
and merges it with Bantam Doubleday Dell
1998 sells Buch AG
1998 buys Dinter Verlag
1999 acquires Burda shares in
HOS multimedica and LIFELINE.
1999 buys Hungarian driving school publisher Müszaki
Könyvkiadó
1999 buys building publiser Meritum (Slovakia)
1999 buys French building publisher SDEP
1999 Swiss municipalities magazine publisher Forum Press
AG Schweiz
BertelsmannSpringer
1999 Bertelsmann buys majority share in scientific publishing
house Springer-Verlag, forms BertelsmannSpringer
1999 MMV Medien & Medizin Verlagsgesellschaft merges
with Urban & Vogel
1999 acquisition of scientific publisher B G Teubner
1999 buys French medical publisher Valdemars
2000 BertelsmannSpringer buys Media Data Germany, Bauverlag
and Autoflotte Verlag, Media Data AG in Zürich and
Septima Verlag in Paris from EMAP
2000 buys Swiss driving school publisher Die Führerprüfung
2000 BertelsmannSpringer buys Pragueconstruction publisher
Renata Film
2000 acquires Swiss construction publisher Schück
Söhne
2000 buys Rot Gelb Grün Verlag
2000 buys B2B motorcycle dealer magazine Bike + Business
2000 sells Deutsche Finanzdienstleistungs- Informationszentrums
GmbH to cash-medien AG
2000 buys Hungarian building magazine Családi Ház
2000 buys Slovakian magazine TRUCKER CS Edition
2000 buys Falken Verlag in Germany
2001 BertelsmannSpringer buys Belgian architectural consultancy
PluspointMarketing and ArchiPoint online service
2001 buys Swiss transport industry publications INUFA
Transportrundschau (ITR) and INUFA Katalog
2001 buys Belgian CoboSystems construction product information
system (est 1989)
2002 Springer acquires medical publisher Medicom
Italia
2002 acquires med-online, apo-online and dent-online journals
2002 gains majority share of Austrian publisher Kompetenz
Verlag
2002 acquire Bundesbaublatt
2002 gains stake in the software developer L&R Lehnert
und Rudholzner Hard- und Softwarevertriebsgesellschaft
2002 acquires Belgian construction publisher MediaOffice
2002 sells Dinter Verlag to Konrad Nagl
2002 acquires online newspaper Netzeitung (Spray
Network N.V) from Lycos Europe
Candover and Cinven sales
2002 London-based private equity funds Candover
and Cinven buy
Kluwer Academic Publishers
2003 acquires 11 journals (inc Natur und Recht,
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, Wasser
und Boden, Gesunde Pflanzen, Anzeiger
für Schädlingskunde and Zeitschrift
für Jagdwissenschaft) and seven book titles
from Blackwell
2003 BertelsmannSpringer buys social sciences publisher
Leske + Budrich Verlag
2003 sells Netzeitung
2003 sells Bertelsmann Information Professionelle to MBO
led by former managing director Frédéric
Jean-Karl Maout
2003 Cinven and Candover acquire BertelsmannSpringer for
€1.05bn, announce plans to merge Kluwer Academic
Publishers and BertelsmannSpringer
Springer Science + Business Media
2004 BertelsmannSpringer relaunched as Springer Science+Business
Media
2004 buys Forum Institut für Management GmbH
in Heidelberg
2004 sells of CoboSystems to Dutch publisher Arko Uitgeverij
BV
2004 sells PlusPointMarketing in Belgium to MBO led by
former owner Raymond Scheepers
2004 sells of ABI Building Data to EMAP
2004 sells Vieweg magazine Umweltpraxis to Deutscher
Fachverlag
2004 merges Westdeutscher Verlag and Verlag Leske + Budrich
as VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
2004 sells Media Office to Roularta
2005 Birkhäuser becomes majority shareholder in Swiss
house Lars Müller Publishers (founded by graphic
designer Lars Müller in 1983)
2005 SSBM acquires marketing communication magazine ReclameWeek
and media trade magazine Identity Matters from
Het Dozijn Uitgeefprojekten in the Netherlands
2005 sells of ArchiPoint to CoboSystems N.V.
2005 buys Rendement Uitgeverij (Rotterdam), Checklist
Publishing (Dordrecht), educational publisher Uitgeverij
Goed Bestuur (Rotterdam) and service company Publicount
(Rotterdam) in the Netherlands
2005 sells Infobuild to Draaiboomken N.V., winding up
Springer Science+Business Media Benelux N.V.
2005 buys Brouwer Media from Consolidated Graphics Industries
of the Netherlands
2005 acquires Current Medicine Group (CMG) - Current Medicine
Group Ltd (London), Science Press Internet Services Limited
(London), Current Medicine LLC (Philadelphia) and Current
Science Inc (Philadelphia)
2005 buys Stiller Informationsmarketing in Celle/Germany
2006 acquires healthcare publishers Axioma Communicatie
BV and Uitgeverij Fundament
2006 acquires Hubert Ebner Verlags in Austria
2006 sells of Grupa Image in Poland to MBO led by former
owner Witold Wisniewski
2006 acquires clinical biology publisher BioTribune SA
(est 2001)
2006 acquires Humana Press
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