Wirtschaftswoche

For many years, Wirtschaftswoche was published weekly^[1][2] on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in Düsseldorf. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt,^[1] which also publishes Handelsblatt.^[3]

The magazine provides business- and economy-related news.^[2] Its target audience is managers and business people.^[2][4] In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.^[5] 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.^[6]

In the period of 2001–2002, Wirtschaftswoche had a circulation of 187,000 copies.^[1] 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.^[7]

The circulation of Wirtschaftswoche was 182,603 copies in 2010.^[4] Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013.^[8]

According to Ronald P. Dore, Wirtschaftswoche is the main German business weekly.^[9]

• since 1971 Peter Sweerts-Sporck,
• since 1973 Claus Jacobi and Paul C. Martin,
• since 1974 Hans Zinken,
• since 1978 Karlheinz Vater, Conrad Ahlers [de] and Horst Kerlikowski,
• since 1979 Karlheinz Vater,
• since 1984 Wolfram Baentsch,
• since 1991 Stefan Baron and Volker Wolff,
• 1995–2007 Stefan Baron,
• 2007–2014 Roland Tichy,
• 2014–2017 Miriam Meckel,
• since April 2017 Beat Balzli

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