About the Axel Springer Vertriebsservice
„Maximizing all sales potential for our customers is the core of our daily work.“
As a national distributor we are primarily a sales service provider for publishers who want to put their distributional activities into professional hands. The sale about the press wholesalers and station book trades is in the main focus. How we are organized in this category can be seen under the heading „Our position in the market“.
By various organisational and structural changes within the last few years we place ourselves as a full service provider in the area of sales. You learn more about our broad service portfolio under the heading "Range of services".
We nevertheless have kept a very streamlined and efficient structure. We live the thought "one face to the customer" – you can see how this works by a look at our organisational structure.
Our multifaceted clientele shows two things: that on the one hand we benefit from the strength of our parent company, but that on the other hand we are able to act independently on the market. Small, creative products find their place with us as well as big, established brands. New ideas and concepts are always welcome to us, as meanwhile not only publishing houses are our customers. Just take a look at our references.
Experienced & sales strong - your partner for every topic.
Our Management
Manfred Sinicki
Managing Director, Chairman
Markus Schöberl
Managing Director
Dietmar Baumhof
Member of the
Management board
(division „publishing houses“)
Our position in the market
The Axel Springer Vertriebsservice GmbH is a 100% affiliate of one of the leading European media enterprises, Axel Springer AG and has belonged to the "big players" in the press sales market for more than twenty-five years now. Measured by the market shares in the press wholesale and station book trade, together both enterprises take rank number one.
Source: dnv 1-2/2011
Our organisation structure
By joining with, our customers get all services from one central point. To ensure this, we have lined up our organisation correspondingly: Our Sales Managers are the main contact people for our customers. They can rely on a variety of in-house experts. This way we competently, transparently, efficiently as well as individually handle all distributional demands of our customers.
History
1985 | Integration of the IP Import and Export Company as a 100 % subsidiary of Axel Springer AG. Headquarters of the company are located in Frankfurt am Main |
1989 | Relocation of the enterprise from Frankfurt am Main to Dietzenbach. |
1992 | Renaming of the IP Import und Export Gesellschaft to Axel Springer Verlag Vertriebs GmbH („ASV“). |
1998 | Relocation of the corporate centre from Dietzenbach to Hamburg. Axel Springer AG holds all shares in the ASV company. |
2007 | The division of export sales of Axel Springer AG gets integrated into ASV. A broad distribution servicer of publications for more than 60 countries arises, accessible also to third parties. |
2011 | ASV Vertriebs GmbH makes a fresh start as Axel Springer Vertriebsservice GmbH. Expansion to a full service provider by integration of ZZ Kurier GmbH, an enterprise of the BMD association specialized on direct-mail marketing. |