COMPANY HISTORY WEKA BUSINESS INFORMATION
2000
Acquisition of ARKO, (Nieuwegein) by WEKA Holland (Amsterdam)
Change of name from WEKA Verlag AG, (Zurich) to WEKA Business Media AG
Acquisitions: Springer Business Media Austria by WEKA-Verlag (Vienna), Flohr Verlag by Spitta Verlag (Balingen)
Takeover of the HRM portfolio of Netwerk Pers (Amsterdam) by WEKA Holland (Amsterdam)
Acquisition of C.M.T. by Editions WEKA (Paris)
Collaboration with the Haufe Media Group through the merger between Haufe Business Media AG and WEKA Business Media AG (Zurich)
Acquisition of UB MEDIA, (Markt Schwaben)
Acquisition of sirAdos, (Dachau)
Integration of the Kissing based Publishing House Recht und Praxis (Law and Practice) into the Deubner Publishing House, (Cologne)
Establishment of WEKA MEDIA GmbH & Co. KG as a result of the merging of the WEKA Publishing House for Construction, the WEKA Publishing House for Management, the WEKA Publishing House for Technical Executives and the WEKA Logistics Centre, (Augsburg)
Reorganisation of the WEKA Group: division into three independent business segments: Business Information, Information Brochures as well as Cartography and Creative Design
Acquisition of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsinformationen (GWI), (Munich)
Takeover of REWI Verlags- und Buchhandels-GmbH and Renoflex Computer- und Software
The Cologne based Dr. Peter Deubner Publishing House, (Cologne) and the French Publishing House for Law, Tissot, (Annecy), enter the WEKA group of companies
Foundation of the Software Division with the objective of linking specialist information content with application software
Acquisition of the Paris based Editions Techniques de l'Ingenieur
The Electronic Publishing Competence Centre starts work on establishing online databases
The WEKA Publishing House begins to offer its first electronic supplementary products
Takeover of the Spitta Publishing House
Foundation of WEKA Austria in Vienna
WEKA Holland begins publishing activities in Amsterdam
WEKA France is founded in the international metropolis of Paris
Zurich based WEKA Switzerland is the first overseas subsidiary
Distribution of the first reference books via both direct marketing and bookshops
01.10.1973: foundation of WEKA Specialist Publishing House for Administration and Industry by WErner and KArin Mützel.