“Gala”, “Brigitte”, “Parents”
RTL sells several magazines to Funke
The magazines “Brigitte”, “Gala” and “Parents” change the owner. RTL Germany sells the Gruner and Year brands to the Funke Mediengruppe.
RTL Germany sells the Gruner and Year brands “Brigitte”, “Gala” and “Parents” to the Funke media group. The group announced this as part of a reorganization of the publishing business. The approximately 300 employees of the brands are therefore taken over by the Funke Mediengruppe with their existing employment contracts. The sale is still subject to approval of the responsible antitrust authorities.
As RTL continued, the other journalistic brands from the Gruner-and Year Portfolio will be introduced to RTL Germany’s content business even closer: The brands “Geolino”, “Geolino Mini” and “Art” will be bundled at the journalistic offer Stern+ under the responsibility of Gregor Peter Schmitz at RTL News, while the brands “Beautiful Living”, “Couch” and “houses” and “houses” and “houses” in the area of RTL Consumer Products under the responsibility of Thorsten Braun. According to RTL, they should further expand their strong growth in the furniture and furnishing area.
Despite the sale of the brands “Gala”, “Brigitte” and “Parents”, the ad alliance will remain the marketing partner for the entire journalistic brand portfolio, the sales of the magazines will continue to take place via German press sales (DPV).
RTL relies on streaming and pay models
With the reorganization of the publishing, RTL Germany continues the transformation of its business model and focuses on the range at the market leader RTL as well as the expansion of the subscriber and usage figures at RTL+ and Stern+.
Stephan Schmitter, CEO RTL Germany: “The transformation of the media accelerates itself and in our view it makes sense to bundle the business where they can be brought into the future with full focus, great expertise and with the greatest possible security for the colleagues. The Funke media group has excellent publishing competence in print and publishing segment and is the ideal publishing segment At home for these three strong brands and our colleagues at the media location in Hamburg. ”
Jesper Doub, for Funke Media National Brands responsible at Funke: “We believe in strong brands – and ‘Gala’, ‘Brigitte’ and ‘Parents’ are outstanding brands that not only have an enormous journalistic radiance in print, but also work in digital work. It is a joy and honor for us to continue.”
In the course of the reorganization, Bernd Hellermann, CEO Gruner and Year, and Carina Laudage, Chief Product Officer Gruner and Year, RTL Germany in mutual agreement with the company. From April 1, 2025, Christian Behr will take over the management of Gruner + Jahr in addition to his tasks as managing director of DPV GmbH. According to RTL, the new Hamburg RTL Germany location in Koreastrasse is preserved.
Transparency note: The star is part of RTL Germany.
Source: Stern
