Marquard Media Group Corporate Presentation 2020
A leading diversified European media company, dedicated to lifestyle, gaming and IT in Germany, Hungary and Poland. The Group represents more than fifty years of leadership in premium magazine publishing. While significant parts of the business have been divested in the past, during the last years, the Group has introduced a combination of M&A-based and organic innovations leading a transformation towards a B-B-C solutions provider. Through innovative and software-based solutions, the Group is redefining the interaction between users, consumer brands, and employers. Marquard Media Group consists of six Group companies: 4Players GmbH in Hamburg, Act2Access AG in Switzerland, Computec Media GmbH in Fürth , Golem Media GmbH in Berlin, Marquard Media Magyarország in Budapest and Marquard Media Polska in Warsaw.
In 1965, Jürg Marquard founded the youth magazine “Pop,” laying the foundation for today’s Marquard Media Group AG, for which he sets a clear growth course. Other important milestones in his life included the appointment to Honorary General Consul to the Republic of Hungary in Switzerland in 1995, being awarded the honorary medal “Held der Freiheit ” (Hero of Liberty) in 2006 and being awarded the Euro Crystal Globe by the European Institution of Economics. Jürg Marquard is married and father of five children. He has a keen interest in sports and was an active race driver.
Bijan Khezri joined Marquard Media Group in 2017, spearheading the transformation from a traditional publisher to a B-B-C platform solutions provider in gaming, shopping, and IT. In 2018, he acquired 20 percent of the Group's share capital. For more than 25 years, Bijan has been dedicated to innovation and corporate leadership as CEO/Chairman, board director, and investor across a range of sector-leading companies, public and private, in the UK, USA, Germany, and Switzerland. He is the Founder and Chairman of KCRI (Khezri Capital Research International) AG in Zug, a family office, private equity investor and governance partner. Bijan graduated from the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales (University of Geneva). He is completing a PhD in strategy process at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has extensively published in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and other leading publications for more than two decades. He is the book author of 'Generation Dubai: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty'. He is an approved individual of the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.
INNOVATION is a deeply embedded force that shapes our focus, choices, and culture. Marquard Media is embracing 'digital transformation' as 'wholesale reinvention' at every level: governance, business processes and models as well as field-level ideation to prototyping. EMPOWERMENT is essential to our corporate culture — setting the full potential free within all our employees and partners. ‘How can we empower our users and partners to empower each other?’ is an essential question. SERENDIPITY is the principle we live by. We believe in sensing an opportunity in transient and non- salient market signals. We strive upon an open mind and unexpected discoveries and encounters. INTEGRITY defines the core of our being and actions, best exemplified by the trust-dimension we transport to all of our engagements.
Create new and reinvent existing markets in lifestyle, gaming and IT, and through software-based media-centric B-B-C engagement platforms that can inexpensively grow ('flywheels'). Be globally recognized as a leading 'flywheel' innovator in the media industry.
1. Empower Marquard Media Group to proactively anticipate, enact, and drive unique growth opportunities; 2. Empower all levels of the organization with a platform to personally grow and contribute to business growth; 3. Reinforce innovation as an integral fabric of our purpose.
MIPP offers companies early access during prototyping to innovative products. Apart from being the first one to receive information on new product innovations, MIPP members are: 1. Invited to exclusive product presentations; 2. Promoted as MIPP on relevant corporate materials; and 3. Are qualified to receive preferential product offerings. MIPP members also provide valuable feedback and insights for future product improvements and innovations. Our partner-clients become an integral part of innovation at platform, product and business model levels.
As a socially responsible company, we embrace action to combat climate change, child poverty, and animal cruelty. We stand for gender equality, socially responsible consumption, and accessible education for everyone. In contrast to the classical top-down corporate social responsibility, we are committed to implementing a bottom-up Marquard Media Cares program where employees and partners contribute with their time and work. A '10-point' green-pledge is implemented in all Group companies to make a daily change.
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Following the recent exit from all print activities, Marquard Media Polska is focused on five core digital assets. Poland is an important growth market in lifestyle/shopping, gaming and IT. In the first step, all resources are dedicated to creating new markets and consumer engagement in lifestyle/shopping, followed by gaming and IT.
Marquard Media Magyarország ('MMM', Hungary) is one of the country's leading and most innovative media company operating trusted multi-media platforms dedicated to fashion & beauty and family & outdoors, powered. MMM is spearheading new platform-solutions empowering small businesses in fashion & beauty and wellness to leverage digital consumer engagement on the high-street.
For more than 30 years, Computec Media has been a pioneer in media solutions for the German-speaking gaming, IT and entertainment markets. Its brands are trusted market-leaders. Community-engaging and innovative e- commerce solutions leveraging Computec’s core brands are driving future growth.
Golem is recognised in German-speaking territories as the trusted leader for IT-related news and all other daily needs of the IT professional: training and recruitment. The core of Golem's mission is empowering professionals to make informed decisions (Golem News) and fostering personal growth through specialist training (Golem Academy) and new job opportunities (Golem Jobs).
Since 2000, 4Players has been recognized as a leader for multimedia solutions informing and empowering gaming communities and enhancing the gaming experience. The 4Players business is consolidated in two business units: (1) SCILL and (2) Hosting. Its market-leading and community-engaging games-news/review portal strongly support the reach of both business units. SCILL: an in-game competitive engagement and monetization skill-challenging layer for game publishers, offered through direct integration as well as SDK. Hosting: a games-server and cloud-apps state- of-the-art solutions infrastructure.
Marquard Innovation • Act2Access is an through transparent and performance-driven ad-booking options. • Its uniquely i . • It empowers publishers to and their . • It enables advertisers to their , , their , and stay in control. • Based on acquired through its , Act2Access advertising technology delivers .
Marquard Innovation • SCILL is an • It focuses on rewarding gamers when playing and empowers them to create and claim • When integrating SCILL into their games, game publishers their catalogue • Importantly, publishers are empowered to by accessing SCILL
Marquard Innovation • Just like Pokémon Go, ShoppieGo uses to display • This offers to consumers on the back of its and • The combination of and results in an . • Importantly by using ShoppieGo
Zühlke Zühlke is a partner for business innovation. By combining both business and technology expertise, Zühlke creates high-end solutions to accelerate market success of its clients. Together with its clients, Zühlke develops financially successful products, services and business models for today’s digital world – from coming up with the initial idea through the implementation and production operations – by thriving on the experience of its 1000 in-house experts and of more than 10000 successfully completed projects. MOP Ministry of Programming (MOP) is a venture-building tech partner. By combining a venture-building experience and a world-class product design, software architecture, engineering and production operations, MOP supports companies in launching new products fast and successfully. Having accelerated 40+ startups in the past 5 years, MOP thrives on experience of its product and business teams.
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