Wirtschaftswoche
Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine published in Germany. "Wirtschaft" means economy (including business) and "Woche" is week.
Editor-in-chief
Beat Balzli
Weekly
155,085 (for the second half of 2013)
1926
History and profile[edit]
For many years, Wirtschaftswoche was published weekly[1][2] on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in Düsseldorf. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt[1] which also publishes Handelsblatt.[3]
The magazine provides business- and economy-related news.[2] Its target audience is managers and business people.[2][4] In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.[5]
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.
Circulation[edit]
In the period of 2001–2002 Wirtschaftswoche had a circulation of 187,000 copies.[1] 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.[6]
The circulation of Wirtschaftswoche was 182,603 copies in 2010.[4] Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013.[7]
According to Ronald P. Dore, Wirtschaftswoche is the main German business weekly.[8]