Wirtschaftswoche#WiWo Green

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| title = Wirtschaftswoche

| logo = File:WirtschaftsWoche Logo.png

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| editor = Horst von Buttlar

| editor_title = Editor-in-chief

| publisher = Handelsblatt Media Group

| frequency = Weekly

| circulation = 155,085 (for the second half of 2013)

| category = Business magazine

| company =

| founded = 1926

| firstdate =

| country = Germany

| based = Düsseldorf

| language = German

| website = {{URL|https://www.wiwo.de}}

| issn = 0042-8582

| oclc = 621739859

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Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine published in Germany. Wirtschaft means “economy” (including business), and Woche is “week”.

History and profile

For many years, Wirtschaftswoche was published weekly{{cite book|author1=Christina Schäffner|author2=Uwe Wiesemann|title=Annotated Texts for Translation: English-German : Functionalist Approaches Illustrated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaY-HPPsvHcC&pg=PA102|access-date=14 December 2014|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-406-9|page=102}} on Thursdays, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Mondays. The editorial office is in Düsseldorf. The publisher is Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, which also publishes Handelsblatt.{{cite news|title=Handelsblatt and WiWo continue to lead the German market|url=http://www.advance.uk.com/news|access-date=3 February 2015|work=Advance Media|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203083524/http://www.advance.uk.com/news|archive-date=3 February 2015|df=dmy-all}}

The magazine provides business- and economy-related news. Its target audience is managers and business people. In November 2014 Miriam Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.{{cite news|title=Miriam Meckel becomes Chief Editor of Wirtschaftswoche|url=https://efeurope.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/miriam-meckel-becomes-chief-editor-of-wirtschaftswoche/|access-date=14 December 2014|work=EFE|date=10 November 2014}} Under the leadership of Miriam Meckel, WirtschaftsWoche has gone through a major structural as well as design relaunch with edition 20/2015. The magazine has slightly changed its logo as part of this redesign.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Circulation

In the period of 2001–2002, Wirtschaftswoche had a circulation of 187,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)|url=http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/top50finance.pdf|publisher=Magazine Organization|access-date=13 December 2014|format=Report}} For the first quarter of 2005 the circulation of the magazine was 183,156 copies, making it the best-selling weekly business publication in Germany.{{cite web|title=Focus Money Profile|url=http://www.medialine.de/media/uploads/projekt/medialine/docs/service/bestellung_download/englisch/2_Object%20Information/2_FOCUS-MONEY/focus_money_object_profile.pdf|work=Media Line|access-date=21 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221160747/http://www.medialine.de/media/uploads/projekt/medialine/docs/service/bestellung_download/englisch/2_Object%20Information/2_FOCUS-MONEY/focus_money_object_profile.pdf|archive-date=21 December 2014|df=dmy-all}}

The circulation of Wirtschaftswoche was 182,603 copies in 2010.{{cite web|title=World Magazine Trends 2010/2011|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf|work=FIPP|access-date=31 March 2015}} Its paid circulation was 155,085 copies in the second half of 2013.{{cite web|title=WirtschaftsWoche|url=http://www.iqm.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Sonstige/International/Downloads/Rate_card_WW_2014_.pdf|work=IQ Media|access-date=14 December 2014|date=2014}}

According to Ronald P. Dore, Wirtschaftswoche is the main German business weekly.{{Cite book|last=Dore|first=Ronald|title=Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780199240623|pages=172}}