Categories | Business magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Impulse Medien GmbH |
Founder | Johannes Gross |
Founded | 1980 |
Company | Impulse Medien GmbH |
Country | Germany |
Based in | Hamburg |
Language | German |
Website | Impulse |
ISSN | 0720-9037 |
Impulse (formally Impulse: Das Unternehmer-Magazin) is one of the business magazines published in Germany. The magazine appears on a monthly basis in Hamburg.
Impulse was started in Cologne in 1980.[1][2] The founder was Johannes Gross.[1] The magazine was owned and published by Gruner + Jahr.[2] In November 2012 the company announced that the magazine would be sold.[3] In January 2013 the magazine was acquired by Impulse Medien GmbH of which majority stake is held by Nikolaus Förster.[1][4] The publisher of the magazine, headquartered in Hamburg, is also Impulse Medien GmbH.[5] The magazine is published monthly.[5]
On 1 February 2006 Klaus Schweinsberg was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine,[6] which targets decision makers, management consultants, investors and entrepreneurs.[7] In 2009 Nikolaus Förster was named the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[1][8]
Before the unification of Germany Impulse had an East German edition, which was launched in 1990 and was published also monthly.[2]
In 2001 the circulation of Impulse was 142,000 copies.[9] The magazine sold 135,128 copies in the last quarter of 2004.[10] The monthly had a circulation of 81,132 copies during the third quarter of 2012.[1] It was 81,000 copies in the last quarter of the same year.[8]