DVV Media Group acquires 100 percent of publish-industry shares

Hamburg, May 25, 2022 – DVV Media Group (DVV) has acquired Munich-based publish-industry Verlag GmbH (PI) with retroactive effect from January 1, 2022. For this purpose, DVV takes over one hundred percent of the shares from the three shareholders Kilian Müller, Anja Müller and Hanno Hardt.

publish-industry was founded in 1993 by Kilian Müller as a publishing house for specialized information in the field of industrial media. PI publishes established trade magazines in the fields of automation, digitization, electrical engineering and electronics, power engineering, and the process industry. The INDUSTR.com industry portal bundles and links all editorial content and is the relevant industry content and analytics platform for the German-speaking market. Decision makers in the industry access more than 75,000 articles, news, videos and whitepapers every month to support them in their buying processes.

With the INDUSTRY.forward Ecosystem, PI networks top-level industry decision-makers from various companies and sectors. These include the INDUSTRY.forward network, the future conference INDUSTRY.forward SUMMIT and the digital industry festival INDUSTRY.forward EXPO.

The merger with DVV is a significant milestone in PI’s corporate development. “By partnering with DVV, PI will put its strengths and competencies on a strong entrepreneurial footing, transfer them to new market segments, and thus create the conditions for further growth. For our customers, we create the opportunity to play the relevant future topics on the path to climate-neutral industry along networked supply chains and across sectors in their entire breadth,” says Kilian Müller.

For DVV, it’s all about leveraging PI’s digital expertise. “By working with Kilian Müller and his proven team, we are expanding our portfolio to include the industrial segment,” said Martin Weber, Managing Director DVV Media Group. “We will also transfer PI’s innovative formats to our own markets to further expand our market positions.”