Motor Presse Stuttgart

What Motor Presse Stuttgart does

Motor Presse Stuttgart is a private, for-profit media production company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1946, the firm has operated for nearly 80 years as an established publishing house, with a headcount of 501-1,000 employees according to available firmographic data. The company operates under the domain motorpresse.de, signaling a focus on automotive and mobility-related content consistent with its Stuttgart base — a city closely identified with the German automotive industry.

The source data does not provide specifics on Motor Presse Stuttgart's product portfolio, magazine titles, digital platforms, or underlying technology stack. No product launches, certifications, or detailed service descriptions are recorded in the available material. As a legacy German media house, the company is presumed to operate across print publishing, digital media, and potentially events or licensing, but the exact mix cannot be confirmed from the inputs.

No revenue figures, pricing models, customer/advertiser lists, funding rounds, M&A activity, leadership team details, or partnership disclosures are available in the source material. Ownership structure, investor composition, and financial performance are likewise undocumented. Consequently, any commercial assessment is constrained to firmographic inference rather than direct evidence.

Name

Motor Presse Stuttgart

Website

https://motorpresse.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Motor Presse Stuttgart is a private German media production company founded in 1946 and headquartered in Stuttgart, operating with 501-1,000 employees. It produces content in the automotive and mobility vertical, serving German-speaking audiences through its motorpresse.de platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Automotive Media and Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Engineering & Technical Reference Publishing (Handbooks, Specifications) (MPAJACAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Motorsports Media Rights & Broadcasting (Series-Owned/Controlled) (MPAKAGAF)

Keywords

• Automotive media publishing
• Specialty magazine publisher
• Print and digital content
• Automotive journalism
• Consumer media production

Headquarters

HQ city

Stuttgart

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

Motor Presse Stuttgart is a media production company that creates and publishes automotive-related content and publications. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, the company operates in the consumer media segment, producing branded editorial content for automotive enthusiasts across print and digital channels.

Product overview

No detailed product or service information available in the provided source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Automotive Media Content

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Bauer Media Group: Large Hamburg-based European publisher with overlapping automotive and lifestyle magazine brands. Directly comparable as a multi-title consumer magazine operator in the same German-speaking market.
• Hubert Burda Media: Major German family-owned media house with a comparable mix of print magazines, digital properties, and consumer brands. Closely matches Motor Presse Stuttgart's publisher profile.
• Haymarket Media Group: UK-headquartered private publisher of leading automotive titles including Autocar and What Car?. Directly comparable as a specialist automotive media business serving enthusiast and consumer audiences.
• Gruner + Jahr: Long-established German magazine publisher (part of RTL Group) with comparable consumer magazine titles and similar legacy print-to-digital transition challenges.
• Hearst Autos: US-based division of Hearst publishing Car and Driver and Road & Track. Closely comparable as a heritage automotive enthusiast media brand transitioning to digital.
• MotorTrend Group: Owned by MotorTrend (Warner Bros. Discovery) — operates MotorTrend print, digital, and streaming automotive content. Direct competitor in enthusiast automotive media.
• Bonnier Group: Swedish family-owned media group with automotive and enthusiast magazine brands across the Nordics. Comparable as a multi-territory specialist publisher with adjacent automotive titles.
• Future plc: UK-listed specialist media operator with automotive and enthusiast titles (e.g., via acquired brands). Comparable as a publicly benchmarked specialist publisher navigating print-to-digital shift.
• Auto Bild (Axel Springer): Germany's leading weekly automotive magazine, owned by Axel Springer. The single most direct head-to-head competitor in the German automotive print market.

Broad incumbents

• Axel Springer: Germany's largest digital publisher and owner of Auto Bild. Overlaps in automotive media but operates at much broader scale and with a digital-first strategy.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Motor_Presse

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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