The Handelsblatt is a leading German language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 business newspaper, published in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

 by the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. It has a circulation of 145.437 daily copies. Its editor-in-chief (since April, 2010) is Gabor Steingart

Gábor Steingart

Gabor Steingart is a German journalist and author of several popular and influential books. He is currently the chief editor of Handelsblatt, Germany's leading economic newspaper.- Life :...

. Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt also publishes the weekly business magazine Wirtschaftswoche

WirtschaftsWoche

Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine. “Wirtschaft” means economy and “Woche” is week. For many years, the magazine was published on Thursday, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Monday. The editorial office is at Düsseldorf....

, editor-in-chief is Roland Tichy.

Since September 2005 the newspaper has been offering an online lexicon called WirtschaftsWiki which features definitions of terms used in economics and politics. The database can be modified by any registered user.

In September 2006 the newspaper ranked all Economists working in Germany, Austria and the German speaking part of Switzerland.

In 2009, Dieter von Holtzbrinck

Dieter von Holtzbrinck

Dieter von Holtzbrinck is one of the heirs to the Holtzbrinck publishing empire, founded by his father Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1948.He was a director of the Dow Jones & Co...

 bought Der Tagesspiegel, Handelsblatt and "WirtschaftsWoche" from the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike...

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