Akquisition of ZfU (Thalwil) by WEKA Holding

Akquisition of foerderland.de (Mannheim) by WEKA MEDIA

Akquisition of dent.com (Berlin) by Spitta

WEKA Mediengruppe München moves from Poing to Haar

WEKA Media Group Munich: WEKA takes over the 50% share in the joint venture CMP-WEKA Verlag GmbH & Co. KG from United Business Media, thus becoming the sole shareholder

frechverlag: The frechverlag publishing house takes over the complete program of the art publishers Busse + Seewald (Bielefeld)

WEKA Netherlands: WEKA Netherlands takes over the Arko publishing house (Amsterdam) including three construction periodicals

WEKA Verlag AG, Zurich: Renaming as WEKA Business Media AG, Zurich

Disposal of Editions WEKA Belgium to mediabooks (Ghent)

WEKA MEDIA Publishing takes over the Division III from Motor Presse Stuttgart with eight special CE- und telecommunication magazines; opening of a new branch in Stuttgart

Spitta (Balingen) takes over Flohr-Verlag (Heidelberg) with four dental magazines

WEKA MEDIA (Kissing) acquires the Dachbau-Magazin (roof construction magazine) from Kleffmann Verlag (Bochum)

Disposal of the information brochures / cartographies division to the mediaprint-group from Paderborn

Disposal of frech druck, that last printing plant within WEKA group; the publishing house frechverlag remains in the group

WEKA Verlag Vienna takes over Springer Business Media Austria with 17 B2B magazines

WEKA Journals Group:
Renaming as WEKA Mediagroup Munich

WEKA Business Information:
Acquisition of the imprint "Public Formation" from IFSP S.A.R.L. (Montrouge) by Editions WEKA (Paris)

WEKA Business Information:
Acquisition of the imprint "Dental start-up" from pdv GmbH (Heidelberg) by Spitta (Balingen)

WEKA Business Information:
Acquisition of the HRM portfolio of Netwerk Pers (Amsterdam) by WEKA Netherlands (Amsterdam)

WEKA Business Information:
Acquisition of C.M.T. SAS by Editions WEKA (Paris)

WEKA Business Information:
Disposal of 49% shares in BEHR'S Verlag, Hamburg

WEKA Business Information:
Acquisition: UB MEDIA AG, Markt Schwaben

WEKA Business Information:
Co-operation with Haufe Mediengruppe by merging Haufe BusinessMedia AG and WEKA Verlag AG (Zurich)

WEKA Business Information:
Acquisition: sirAdos GmbH, Dachau

WEKA Business Information:
Sale: WEKA Sp. z.o.o, Warsaw

WEKA Journals Group:
Sale: 50 per cent share of Lupus (Poland) and of Computer Panoráma (Hungary)

Sale of WEKA Journals Group to Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformationen GmbH does not go through and WEKA Journals Group remains in WEKA Group as an independent division

WEKA Business Information:
Merger of Recht und Praxis publishing house, Kissing, with Deubner Verlag in Cologne
Sale: Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Apliquée (ECPA), Paris

Formation of WEKA MEDIA GmbH & Co. KG through combining WEKA Construction Publishing Houses, WEKA Management Publishing Houses, WEKA Publishing House for Technical Executives and WEKA Logistics Center, Augsburg

Sale: WEKA Journals Group to Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformationen GmbH (subject to approval by cartel authorities), Civitas Ediciones (Spain)

Re-organisation of WEKA Corporate Group. Structuring in three independent divisions, namely Business Information, Information Brochures and Cartography, and Creative Design

Discontinued: CONWAVE and i-ConneXX

Formation of WEKA Business Information GmbH & Co. KG as holding company for the 16 domestic and foreign publishing houses in the former professional information division

As part of general internet boom, development of CONWAVE (intranet-based programme for specialist information) and i-ConneXX (portal/search engine for legal information)

Closure: specialist publishing house in Hungary

Discontinuation of activities of WEKA Italy (information brochure publishers)

Sales: WEKA Consumer Medien (games - magazines), WAGO-CURADATA (tax consultancy software), ReNoFlex (software for lawyers), PCAS (software for construction trade)

WEKA celebrates a quarter of a century - 36 specialist publishers and software houses in 11 European countries with more than 3000 employees.

Acquisitions: Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsinformationen (GWI), Munich, and Behr's Verlag (49 per cent), Hamburg

Sale: DentSo-Spitta

Formation: Fun Creativ in Kiel

Joint Venture with CMP, the largest American publisher of computer magazines

Closure of WEKA USA

Take-over of REWI Verlags- und Buchhandels-GmbH and Renoflex Computer- und Software GmbH

Take-over of Spanish legal publishing house Civitas Ediciones in Madrid

With sales of over 401 million euros, WEKA heads the ranking of German specialist and scientific publishing houses for the first time

The take-over of Magna Media AG makes WEKA the largest supplier of specialist journals for IT, electronics and telecommunications

Dr. Peter Deubner Verlag, Cologne, and the French legal publishers Tissot in Annecy join the WEKA Corporate Group

Formation of Alfa WEKA in Warsaw

Formation of the Software Division with the aim of linking professional information content with application software. Purchase of Editions Techniques de l'Ingénieur in Paris and debis Systemhaus Curadata

Market leadership in complete inhouse systems through merger of WAGO and Curadata to form WAGO-CURADATA

Sales of 314 million euros, workforce of 2550

2500 corporate employees celebrate the company's 20th anniversary

The Competence Center for Electronic Publishing starts work on setting up online banks
WEKA publishing houses market first supplementary electronic products
10th anniversary of the International WEKA Tennis Cup

Purchase of Frech-Verlag, Stuttgart

Competition for first Architecture Prize, organised by WEKA Specialist Publishing House for Construction

Continuous support - through both active work and financial aid - for the "Bunter Kreis", a society helping very sick children

34 per cent growth, sales of more than 250 million euros

60 per share in DentSo Software House

Awarding of first WEKA Environmental Prize by the specialist publishing house for technical executives

Take-over of Franzis-Verlag in Munich38 per cent sales growth

Purchase of ECPA, publishers of psychological works in Paris

Move into a new company building at Römerstrasse 16 in Kissing24 per cent sales growth

24 Prozent Umsatzssteigerung

WEKA obtains a 49 per cent share in WAGO Software House

Formation of Editions WEKA in Belgium

Restructuring into five divisions with a seven-strong management board

27 per cent sales growth - with over 100 million euros, WEKA is Germany's third largest internationally operating specialist publishing house Deutschlands

Formation of WEKA Publishing Inc. in the USA

Entry into German computer magazine market through take-over of 49 per cent of DMV (data and media publishing house)

Sales top 50 million euros

Construction of a new company building with a further 300 jobs

Take-over of Spitta Verlag

Formation of WEKA Austria in Vienna

WEKA Netherlands launches publishing activities in Amsterdam

Move into extended company building

More than 1000 authors are writing specialist books and reference works

Formation of WEKA Italy in Milan

The publishing house already has 100 employees and 200 specialist authors.

WEKA France is formed in the international metropolis of Paris

The 100th book title is published.

WEKA Switzerland based in Zurich is the first foreign subsidiary

Supply of first up-to-date reference work by direct sales and through bookshops

Move into first company building in Kissing

Market leader: more than 800 cities and towns in Germany, Austria and Switzerland buy information brochures for new residents from WEKA. These brochures are funded by advertisements placed by local firms.

01.10.1973 : Formation of WEKA Specialist Publishing House for Public Authorities and Industry by WErner and KArin Mützel. Products: clearly structured specialist books, easy-to-understand printed forms, and information leaflets for new residents in cities and towns.