Holdings
As of 2004 the group's interests are centred on print - newspaper, journal and book publishing.
Newspapers and magazines
- Die Zeit
- Tagesspiel
- Handelsblatt
- Handelsblatt am Abend
- WirtschaftsWoche
- DM
- Teleborse
- absatzwirtschaft
- Der Betrieb
- Der Finanzbetrieb
- Cottbus Lausitzer Rundschau
- Würzburg MAIN-POST
- Saarbrücker Zeitung
- Constance Südkurier
- Trierischer Volksfreund
- Boulevard Würzburg
- Economia - Czech business publisher (56.5% stake with Dow Jones)
- Wall Street Journal Europe (49% stake, 51% held by Dow Jones)
- Convenience Shop
- Regal
- Spotlight
- écoute
- Ecos
- adesso
- Spot on
- Junge Karriere
- Corps (joint venture with Kohtes Klewes PR group)
- VDI-Nachrichten - engineering publisher (40% stake)
- Nature
- Scientific American
Book Publishing
Imprints include -
- Macmillan
- Heinemann
- Picador
- St Martin's Press
- Hill & Wang
- North Point Press
- Hanley & Belfus
- S Fischer
- Rowohlt
- Kindler
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Alexander Fest
- Argon
- Nicolai
- Lichtenberg
- Scherz
- Augustus
- Battenberg
- Midena
- Steiger
- Barth
- Wolfgang Kruger
- Droemer Weltbild
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Henry Holt
- Coron Verlag
- Schroedel-Schulbuchverlage
- Moritz Diesterweg
- College-Group
- J.B. Metzler
- Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger
- Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
- Urban & Fischer
- Bedford
- Freeman
- Worth
- Scientific American
- Palgrave
- Sidgwick & Jackson
- Pan
- Tor
- Times Books (partnership with New York Times group)
Multimedia and Information Services
- Genios
- vwd-Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste - German business news agency (49.67% stake)
- Infoseek Deutschland (25%)
- Booxtra - German online bookseller (25%)
Other
- Prognos - business research
- Clausen & Bosse - printing
- Franz Spiegel - printing
- VHPS - book distribution