Marquard Media Group create. connect. transact.
Marquard Media Group Marquard Media Group, a company founded by Jürg Marquard in the 1960s and headquartered in Switzerland, is a leading European media company, publishing lifestyle, special interest, gaming and electronic entertainment titles in Germany, Poland and Hungary. The strongly growing online sector includes web and mobile o ff ers for the IT and gaming world provided by its portfolio companies: Golem, 4Players and Computec. Under the motto ‘create. connect. transact.’ the company is dedicated to product and business model innovation strengthening existing o ff ers and entering new market segments.
Jürg Marquard Executive Chairman 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.
Trusted and Influential Media Brands Empowering Creation, Connections and Unique Transactional Value Since the 1960s, Marquard Media Group (MMG) has been creating prime quality media solutions, constantly breaking into new territories. More than 50 years of change and innovation crystallised a unique corporate DNA, allowing for continuous progress. Through its trusted media brands, independent and prime content creation as well as so fu ware-based solutions in gaming, shopping, and crowdsourcing, Marquard Media Group continuous enacting a new world of peer-to-peer engagement leveraging its core DNA. MMG creates trusted and engaging communities; reinvents how these communities engage and are connected to each segment of the broader economy; and creates new business ecosystems o ff ering unique value to its members.
Bijan Khezri CEO & Chairman of the Group Management Board; Member & Delegate of the Board of Directors Bijan joined Marquard Media Group in 2017, spearheading the transformation from a traditional publishing company to a brand- centric media platform dedicated to the operating model 'create.connect.transact.’ Prior to joining Marquard Media Group, Bijan served for six years as Group Board Director and Chairman of the US Advisory Board of Sportradar AG, the world's leading provider of sports data and analytics. Today, he is Chairman of the Board of EEM World, the owner and operator of the five-star Longines Masters equestrian tournaments in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, and Lausanne. Bijan is completing a PhD in strategy process at the University of St. Gallen. For more than twenty-five years, he has extensively published in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. In November 2018, Bijan acquired a 20 percent stake in Marquard Media Group.
"Empowering the communities and social movements we create and serve to uniquely experience the causes and worlds they aspire to, by reinforcing trusted and influential brands as engaging and uniquely value-creating platforms that generate a positive impact on personal experiences as well as professional paths. This is our purpose and mission. We empower creation, connections, and value exchange.” – Bijan Khezri, CEO & Chairman of the Group Management Board Member & Delegate of the Board of Directors
Our Values INNOVATION is the integral part of our company culture and a driving force shaping a more exciting future that we continuously strive for. EMPOWERMENT is essential to our corporate culture – setting the full potential free within all our employees and partners as well as to the communities we serve. ‘How can we empower our community members to empower each other?’ is the essential question. SERENDIPITY is the principle we live by. We believe in discovering opportunity where one may least expect it. 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.
Our Corporate Social Responsibility We firmly believe that business and responsible corporate citizenship belong together. Marquard Media Group’s corporate social responsibility commitment is reflected in some of the following priority areas: charity relationships, children support, and environmental protection. “Consumer trends are dynamically changing in Hungary and around the world. More and more people buy responsibly and choose fur-free and cruelty-free products in the fashion and beauty sector. Therefore, all Marquard Media publications announce complete ban on fur products.” - President of Marquard Media Hungary; Group Management Board Member, Óhidi Zsuzsanna
Our Purpose and Mission Our Purpose Empowering communities and social movements to uniquely experience the causes and worlds they aspire to. Our Mission Reinforcing trusted and influential brands as engaging and uniquely value-creating platforms that generate a positive impact on personal experiences as well as professional paths.
Our Operating Model Marquard Media’s operating model is centred on ‘ create. connect. transact.’ (CCT). In its essence, it is a brand-centric approach transforming trusted and influential brands into distinct platforms for community engagement and value exchange. CREATE – the purpose of trusted products and services is to create and engage communities. CONNECT – community engagement is driven by a peer-to-peer quest for novelties, discoveries, and sharing insights leading to value-centric transactions. TRANSACT – curating unique and new business ecosystems, leveraging the trusted brands and fulfil our communities’ transactional aspirations – always delivering unique value. ‘TRANSACT’ is not simply a monetisation approach, but a commitment to bring value to our readers and community members.
Ecosystem Partnerships - MIPP In alignment with our operating model ‘create. connect. transact.’ we want to deliver unique and new business ecosystems to fulfil our communities’ transactional needs. To achieve this, we are continuously building long-term business partnerships and unique transactional models. Marquard Innovation Partner Program (MIPP) aims at offering companies’ early access to innovation. This access is allowed already at the prototyping stage. Apart from being the first one to receive information on new product offerings, MIPP members are invited to exclusive product presentations, are promoted as MIPP on all relevant corporate materials, and are qualified to receive preferential product offering. Having innovation as an integral part of its corporate strategy, Marquard Media continuously innovates at platform, product and business model levels.
Marquard Innovation Program (MIP) MIP is a Group Innovation Program that allows each individual employee to innovate, grow as a professional and create value. MIP was launched in order to: 1. Empower Marquard Media Group to proactively anticipate, enact, and drive opportunities for future technological and business model innovation; 2. Empower hidden and creative talents with a platform to grow; 3. Allow each employee to express oneself; 4. Delight communities that Marquard Media Group serves; and 5. Experience how every individual can make a change.
Marquard Media Group create. connect. transact.
Marquard Media Poland Trusted and Brand-Centric Transactional Media Platform Marquard Media Polska is operating a trusted platform of brand-centric media assets engaging the entire consumer-spending spectrum through the creation of unique and value-driven business ecosystems centered around prime content, peer-to-peer empowerment, and business model innovation.
Marquard Media Poland’s Brands
Marquard Media Hungary Trusted and Brand-Centric Creative and Transactional Platform dedicated to Fashion & Beauty, Entertainment, Family & Outdoors, and Social Responsibility Marquard Media Hungary operates a platform of trusted media brands that form digital networks serving the content as well as transactional needs of dedicated communities: fashion & beauty, entertainment, family & outdoors, entertainment, and social responsibility. Marquard Media Hungary serves within the Group as a creative hub building media solutions for Third-Party corporates and as IT-ideation center for transactional community-based applications
Marquard Media Hungary’s Brands
Computec Media Trusted, Brand-Centric and Transaction- focused Media Platform Provider dedicated to Communities enthusiastic about Gaming and IT Entertainment For more than 30 years, Computec Media has been a pioneer in media solutions for the German-speaking audience passionate about gaming, IT and entertainment. The trusted core brands PC GAMES HARDWARE, PC GAMES and BUFFED serve as data-driven platforms for community engagement and value exchange.
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