Timo Busch Email & Phone Number

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Hamburg, Hamburg, De

Magazines ("emotion", "Slow" and "Working Women"), Newsletters ("Hot Bowl") and Events ("emotion Awards" and "EWD")

Munich, Bavaria, De

Development and execution of a buy-and-build strategy to form an integrated marketing and media company2019Restructuring of Glatz Group and launch of BranchCloud / Takeover of MEEDIA from Handelsblatt Media Group / Acquisition of Animago and Digital Production from EPPG2020Acquisition of Fischer's Archiv from the founder / Acquisition of Econ Forum from Bonnier / Takeover of S&L Medien Gruppe from Maria-Theresia von Seidlein / Sale of S&L Research to Weischer2021Merger of the S&L agencies to form Publyc / Takeover of Harenberg from SPIEGEL-Verlag / Takeover of MMmedia from the founders2022Consolidation and Integration / Investment from BayBG2023Launch of creativebase platform and network (powering blickpunktfilm.de, gamesmarkt.de, meedia.de and musikwoche.de)

Takeover and restructuring of an established publishing house, liquidation of legacy assets and successful sale of profitable media brands2014Takeover from Gruner + Jahr (Bertelsmann) / Sale of KINO.DE to Ströer / Acquisition of DIVA from Ulrich Scheele2015Implementation of KINO-KOMBI / Sale of Treffpunkt Kino to S&L2016Relaunch of Blickpunkt:Film, GamesMarkt and MusikWoche / Restructuring and spin-off of the profitable B2B businesses into subsidiaries2017Liquidation of the holding company in self-administered insolvency proceedings2018Sale of all subsidiaries

Foundation of a specialist publishing house, followed by a digital marketing agency and a media sales house serving the German cinema industry / sale to competitors2000 – 2002Development and launch of CINESCOPE with Guido Krüsselsberg, Matthias Piksa, Uwe Mies and others (discontinued in 2002)2002 – 2004Development and launch of KINO&CO with Matthias Piksa2005 – 2008Acquisition of Skip (DE) from Styria Media Group (merged with KINO&CO) / Foundation of FILM24 with Krankikom and MOVIEMEDIA with Weischer2009Handover of FILM24 customers to Krankikom / Sale of KINO&CO to S&L and MOVIEMEDIA to Weischer (now: Weischer Online)