Holger Behm, a trained secondary school teacher, co-founder of the “Georg-Büchner Buchladen” in Darmstadt, 1979/80 head of the editorial desk for ecology of the „tageszeitung“, 1981 until 1988 head of the press- and license department and from 1988 until 1990 managing director of the Rotbuch Verlag (Berlin). From 1990 until 1995 freelance publishing consultant and journalist. Ran a large number of workshops on the subject “Marketing and Management in the Publishing Industry” from the early until the mid-1990s in Middle- and Eastern Europe and in Kazakhstan and also at the end of the 1990s in Vietnam and in China. He is publisher and author of the book “Büchermacher der Zukunft (Tomorrow’s Bookmakers)” about Marketing and Management in Publishing, Wissenschaftliche Buchgemeinschaft Darmstadt. In 1996 employed by Cornelsen, one of the leading German educational publishers, he built up the department “International Cooperations/Licenses” and worked there as head of department until 2014. In early 2015, Holger Behm founded the consultancy firm IPRBerlin Consult. He is internationally active as a publishing consultant.
EEPG – European Educational Publishers Group, Berlin; IPA – International Publishers Association, Genf; Verband Bildungsmedien e.V., Frankfurt; Didacta Verband e.V. , Darmstadt
Frankfurter Book Fair, Beijing International Book Fair, London Book Fair, Bologna Children’s Book Fair, New Delhi World Book Fair, Cairo International Book Fair, Salon du Livre de Paris, St. Petersburg International Book Salon, Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Warsaw International Book Fair, Latvian Bookfair, International Book Festival Budapest, GAUDEAMUS International Book and Education Fair Bukarest, Foire du Livre de Bruxelles, Internationales Comics Festival Angoulême, DIDACTA, Leipziger Buchmesse, Erlangener Comicsalon, WORLDDIDAC
Publisher and author of "Büchermacher der Zukunft – Management und Marketing im Verlag",
Wissenschaftliche Buchgemeinschaft Darmstadt, 1992/1999.
“Tomorrow’s Bookmakers - Marketing and Management in Publishing”, out of print.
The book was translated into Chinese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Georgian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian.
The business portfolio comprises the following:
Finding and analysing companies and the presentation of the respective company cultures, divergence as well as convergence constitute the basic task that has to be performed within the framework of successful M&A activities. This implies the preparation of:
The background of my experience has grown over years in which I have participated in several company takeovers, including joint ventures, in an initiative as well as an advisory capacity.
The workshop contents are adapted to the current requirements of publishing activities and tailored with a primary focus on educational publishers. Further information on the modules below can be obtained on request. The following modules are available as individual lectures as well as workshop modules (1 to 3 days):
Publishing
activity
Focus on education and educational publishers
Traditional publishing work