The Süddeutscher Verlag has four business areas: Süddeutsche Zeitung, regional and weekly newspapers, specialists information, and services / technology / investments.
The largest and most important production of the Süddeutscher Verlag is the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which is associated with various magazines and supplements, websites and TV programs, the department "New Products" (books, CDs, DVDs), as well as newspaper advertisements and subscription management. In the area of electronic media, the Süddeutscher Verlag is active with its online services, its equity stakes in several radio stations and in the production of TV Magazine "Süddeutsche TV".
The SV is also shareholder of many regional and weekly newspapers and advertising papers in Germany and abroad:
Newspaper group Hof / Coburg / Suhl (Frankenpost Verlag GmbH in Hof, 70% stake in the printing and publishing house Neue Presse GmbH in Coburg, Suhler Publishing Society mbH & Co. KG) with the newspapers Frankenpost, Freies Wort, Neue Presse, Südthüringer Zeitung
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Münchner Zeitungs-Verlag (12.5%; newspaper: Münchner Merkur, tz)
ZVO Zeitungsverlag Oberbayern (12.5%)
MWB Medien (formerly "Münchener Wochenblatt Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft") (100%), regional advertising papers
Contract with the Free State of Bavaria on the publishing of the Bayerische Staatszeitung, and the Bayerische Staatsanzeiger in a joint venture with the Münchner Zeitungs-Verlag.
The broadcasting investments are summarized in the "SV Teleradio Produktions- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft für elektronische Medien". Among other things, SV Teleradio is shareholder of Radio Gong 96.3, TOP FM, Antenne Bayern, Studio Gong, and Sat.1 Bavaria.
Specialists information
Activities in the field of specialist information are summarized in the subsidiary company "Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformation GmbH (SVHFI)". There 150 specialist magazines and several thousand book titles are produced. The focus lies in the areas of communication and media, business and management, commerce, law and taxes, as well as medicine.
These include the following publishers:
Hüthig Fachverlage with the imprints C. F. Müller Verlag, Hüthig Verlag, Hüthig & Pflaum Verlag, Wichmann Verlag
Medical Publishing Group Medical Tribune
Verlag Werben & Verkaufen
Verlagsgruppe Hüthig Jehle Rehm
Services and technology
The services of SV include, besides corporate activities, archive and content services ("DIZ Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum") and Corporate Publishing (Süddeutscher Verlag Publishing, Süddeutsche Zeitung onpact). The SV also owns "Süddeutsche Zeitung Publishing", an advertising agency, targeted at teenagers, and the "Süddeutscher Verlag onpact", a public relations agency. SV also owns the publisher "moderne industrie", which through its subsidiaries offers seminars and conferences. The SZ logistics (sales, pay slips) belongs to the services division. Since February 2009, the logistics subsidiary of the SV, the Zeitungsverlag Oberbayern, the TNT Post Holding and MediaLog operate a regional postal service under the name Süd-Post.
In the fields of printing technology, typographic services are offered, for example offset printing. This way, in the SV printing center, magazines from other publishing groups (such as Bild, Bild am Sonntag and Die Welt of Axel Springer SE) as well as individual customer orders are printed in addition to the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In the printing center Suhl (subsidiary of "Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft") the publications Freies Wort, Neue Presse, Südthüringer Zeitung and Wochenspiegel among others are printed.
