Number of employees about 700 Headquarters Hanover, Germany | Website www.heise-verlag.de Founded 1949 | |
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Key people Christian Heise; Ansgar Heise Products magazines and telephone books Parent organization Heise Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG | ||
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Heinz Heise is a publishing house based in Hanover, Germany. Its focus is PC-oriented publications such as c't, iX and heise.de, as well as corresponding online services published by its UK-based subsidiary Heise Media UK Ltd.
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History
Heise was created by Heinz Heise in Hanover in 1949 as an address and telephone directory publisher, then later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections. In 2001, the company was divided into separate enterprises, all of which came under the umbrella of their parent company, the Heise Media Group. Their turnover was in year 2008 at 108,7 million euro.
In July 2006, Heise Security was launched in the UK. It mostly featured translated news from the German site, but also featured locally relevant stories. The UK version of Heise Online came in February 2008. In February 2009, the UK site was renamed to The H, and located at h-online.com. In July 2013, The H was closed down because it proved difficult to monetize traffic to the website. The website archive was taken down and the site redirected to heise.de in January 2014. It was brought back online a few days later.
Publications
Heise publishes the magazines:
These publications feed into the Heise News Ticker, which ranks among the most successful German language news portals which includes a frequented user forum. The company also owns Heise Online (heise.de), which, as of December 2009, is a top 1000 website in the world, and a top 50 site in Germany according to Alexa traffic rankings.
In the UK, Heise had a subsidiary Heise Media UK Ltd., which published The H (h-online.com) with the following channels:
h-online.com/open)h-online.com/security)h-online.com/developer)h-online.com/downloads)h-online.com/priceinsight)"The H" was closed down in July 2013 for lack of a "working business model".