Wirtschaftswoche
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Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine published in Germany. Wirtschaft means “economy” (including business), and Woche is “week”.
History and profile
For many years, Wirtschaftswoche was published weekly<ref name=mor/><ref name=uwe>Template:Cite book</ref> on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in Düsseldorf. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt,<ref name=mor/> which also publishes Handelsblatt.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The magazine provides business- and economy-related news.<ref name=uwe/> Its target audience is managers and business people.<ref name=uwe/><ref name=fip/> In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Circulation
In the period of 2001–2002, Wirtschaftswoche had a circulation of 187,000 copies.<ref name=mor>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The circulation of Wirtschaftswoche was 182,603 copies in 2010.<ref name=fip>Template:Cite web</ref> Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013.<ref name=iqm>Template:Cite web</ref>
According to Ronald P. Dore, Wirtschaftswoche is the main German business weekly.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Editor-in-chiefs
- since 1971 Peter Sweerts-Sporck,
- since 1973 Claus Jacobi and Paul C. Martin,
- since 1974 Hans Zinken,
- since 1978 Karlheinz Vater, Conrad Ahlers 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