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...Ms Jacobs sits on the management board, where she is a “positive force for structured change”, says chairman Stefan von Holtzbrinck....
...But potential shareholders should be cheered that the other current owner, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, intends to remain invested. Its faith is likely to be justified....
...Holtzbrinck will not sell any shares in the IPO and “is committed to remaining a long-term shareholder”, Springer Nature said....
...Holtzbrinck is not putting all of the businesses in Macmillan Science and Education into the new venture....
...Holtzbrinck, a German venture capital firm, gave stakes in seven of those companies to Rocket in return for a 2.5 per cent stake in the parent....
...It’s pretty heated already,” said Martin Weber, general partner at Holtzbrinck Ventures, which separated from German publishing company Holtzbrinck in 2010....
...The publishers named in the lawsuit are: Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group (USA) and Macmillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH....
...The publishers named in the suit are Hachette Book Group, part of Lagardère; HarperCollins, owned by News Corp; Holtzbrinck, owner of Macmillan; Simon & Schuster, a CBS subsidiary; and Penguin, owned by...
...Several of these – respectively, Lagardère, News Corp, Georg von Holtzbrinck, Pearson (which also owns the Financial Times) Bertelsmann and CBS – have had other investment priorities....
...publishers: Penguin, which like the Financial Times is owned by Pearson; HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp; Hachette Livre, a part of France’s Lagardère Publishing; Simon & Schuster of CBS; and Holtzbrinck...
...He said the Holtzbrinck deal was a positive sign....
...Macmillan, which was founded in 1843 and operates in more than 80 countries, is privately owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, the German media conglomerate, but is headquartered in the UK....
...However, StudiVZ, which was bought by Georg von Holtzbrinck, the publishing group, for €85m in January 2007, had revenues of about €18m, and is still lossmaking....
...DuMont Schauberg, Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck and WAZ Mediengruppe – are in initial talks about how to sell content on the web....
...The site, which is based in Berlin, was bought last year by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a German publishing company, which also could not be reached....
...People familiar with the deal said G+J, controlled by German media group Bertelsmann, had beaten national rivals Holtzbrinck and Sueddeutsche Zeitung to satisfy Pearson’s asking price of €15m ($21.9m) to...
...Mr Von Holtzbrinck, who abstained from that vote, is chairman of the supervisory board of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, which publishes German business paper Handelsblatt....
...It was thought to have linked up with Holtzbrinck, its fellow German publisher, but some sources say that it was trying to hook up with the Blackstone....
...Mr Von Holtzbrinck, who abstained from the board’s vote, chairs the supervisory board of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, publisher of Handelsblatt, the German business paper....
...Holtzbrinck is selling the newspaper because of a cartel ruling. Holtzbrinck already owns Tagesspiegel, another Berlin title....
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