IDW Verlag

What IDW Verlag does

IDW Verlag is a publishing entity operating under the idw.de domain. The German term 'Verlag' in its name indicates it functions as a publisher. No further information regarding its specific products, services, customer segments, revenue model, headcount, ownership structure, management, or geographic footprint is available in the provided source data. The only verifiable facts are the legal name 'IDW Verlag' and its association with the idw.de website. The company's name and domain suggest it may operate within a specific professional or institutional context, but no additional details are available to substantiate this.

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Name

IDW Verlag

Legal name

IDW Verlag

Website

https://idw-verlag.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IDW Verlag is a German publishing entity operating under the idw.de domain, with the term 'Verlag' indicating a publishing function. Specific products, services, customer segments, and business model details are not available in the provided source data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Publishing

NAICS

Book Publishers (513130)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

General Trade Publishing (Adult Fiction & Nonfiction) (MPAJAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Corporate Governance & Company Law Publishing (Securities, Board Governance) (MPAJACAJ)

Keywords

• Professional publishing
• Audit literature
• Accounting publications
• Technical books
• Specialty publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Düsseldorf

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel

Core offering

IDW Verlag operates as a publishing house (Verlag) under the idw.de domain, producing and distributing published literature. The company name indicates it is the publishing arm of the IDW (Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V.), focused on releasing professional and technical publications. Specific product lines, titles, and editorial scope are not detailed in the provided source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Springer Gabler: Springer Gabler is the German-language business and economics imprint of Springer Nature, publishing academic and professional titles on Wirtschaft, Management, and VWL/BWL. It is the most directly comparable German-language economics and business publisher to IDW Verlag in terms of subject matter and audience.
• Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag: Schäffer-Poeschel is a leading German publisher of business-management, controlling, and economics textbooks and reference works, historically linked to the Handelsblatt Group. It targets the same BWL/VWL professional, academic, and corporate buyer base as IDW Verlag.
• Campus Verlag: Campus Verlag is a Frankfurt-based academic and social-sciences publisher with a strong economics, political economy, and sociology list. It serves university libraries, academic readers, and policy-adjacent professional audiences that substantially overlap with IDW Verlag's core customers.
• Nomos Verlag: Nomos is a German academic publisher specializing in law, political science, and economics. Its economics and social-policy titles directly overlap with IDW Verlag's Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik output and serve the same institutional library market.
• Duncker & Humblot: Duncker & Humblot is a Berlin-based academic publisher with strong economics, public-law, and social-science lists, including publications by several German economic-research institutes. It is closely comparable to IDW Verlag in serving institutional economics buyers and policy-oriented academic readers.

Broad incumbents

• De Gruyter: De Gruyter is a large Berlin-based academic and scholarly publisher with a sizable economics and business program and a global digital distribution platform (degruyter.com). As a broad incumbent it competes with IDW Verlag for authors, library budgets, and institutional customers across Europe.
• Springer Nature: Springer Nature is the global academic publisher whose German economics business lives largely through Springer Gabler. As a broad incumbent it competes for authors, library agreements, and open-access funding pools that increasingly shape economics publishing economics.
• Verlag C.H. Beck: C.H. Beck is one of Germany's largest legal and academic publishers, with strong economics, public policy, and reference titles. It is a broad incumbent whose economics and policy backlist overlaps with IDW Verlag's subject area and competes for the same professional reader.
• Hanser Verlag: Carl Hanser Verlag is a Munich-based trade and professional publisher with a sizable list of management, economics, and engineering titles. As a broad incumbent, it serves overlapping B2B and institutional buyers with economics-adjacent content.
• Wiley-VCH: Wiley-VCH is the German subsidiary of Wiley, publishing academic and professional content including economics-adjacent titles through Wiley's global distribution. As a broad incumbent it competes for institutional library budgets with smaller German economics publishers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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