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Marquard Media Group

• create. connect. transact.

Marquard Media Group

Marquard Media Group, a company founded by Jürg Marquard in the 1960s and headquartered in Switzerland, is a leading European media company, publishing lifestyle, special interest, gaming and electronic entertainment titles in Germany, Poland and Hungary. The strongly growing online sector includes web and mobile

• ffers for the IT and gaming world provided by

its portfolio companies: Golem, 4Players and

• Computec. Under the motto ‘create. connect.

transact.’ the company is dedicated to product and business model innovation strengthening existing offers and entering new market segments.

Jürg Marquard

In 1965, Jürg Marquard founded the youth magazine “Pop”, laying the foundation for today’s Marquard Media Group AG, for which he sets a clear growth course. Other important milestones in his life included the appointment to Honorary General Consul to the Republic of Hungary in Switzerland in 1995, being awarded the honorary medal “Held der Freiheit” (Hero of Liberty) in 2006 and being awarded the Euro Crystal Globe by the European Institution of

• Economics. Jürg Marquard is married and

father of five children. He has a keen interest in sports and was an active race driver. Executive Chairman

Since the 1960s, Marquard Media Group (MMG) has been creating prime quality media solutions, constantly breaking into new territories. More than 50 years of change and innovation crystallised a unique corporate DNA, allowing for continuous progress. Through its trusted media brands, independent and prime content creation as well as sofuware-based solutions in gaming, shopping, and crowdsourcing, Marquard Media Group continuous enacting a new world of peer-to-peer engagement leveraging its core DNA. MMG creates trusted and engaging communities; reinvents how these communities engage and are connected to each segment of the broader economy; and creates new business ecosystems offering unique value to its members.

Trusted and Influential Media Brands Empowering Creation, Connections and Unique Transactional Value

Bijan Khezri

Bijan joined Marquard Media Group in 2017, spearheading the transformation from a traditional publishing company to a brand- centric media platform dedicated to the

• perating model 'create.connect.transact.’ Prior

to joining Marquard Media Group, Bijan served for six years as Group Board Director and Chairman of the US Advisory Board of Sportradar AG, the world's leading provider of sports data and analytics. Today, he is Chairman

• f the Board of EEM World, the owner and
• perator of the five-star Longines Masters

equestrian tournaments in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, and Lausanne. Bijan is completing a PhD in strategy process at the University of St.

• Gallen. For more than twenty-five years, he has

extensively published in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. In November 2018, Bijan acquired a 20 percent stake in Marquard Media Group. CEO & Chairman of the Group Management Board; Member & Delegate of the Board of Directors

"Empowering the communities and social movements we create and serve to uniquely experience the causes and worlds they aspire to, by reinforcing trusted and influential brands as engaging and uniquely value-creating platforms that generate a positive impact on personal experiences as well as professional paths. This is our purpose and mission. We empower creation, connections, and value exchange.”

– Bijan Khezri, CEO & Chairman of the Group Management Board Member & Delegate of the Board of Directors

Our Values

INNOVATION is the integral part of our company culture and a driving force shaping a more exciting future that we continuously strive for. EMPOWERMENT is essential to our corporate culture – setting the full potential free within all

• ur employees and partners as well as to the

communities we serve. ‘How can we empower our community members to empower each other?’ is the essential question. SERENDIPITY is the principle we live by. We believe in discovering opportunity where one may least expect it. We strive upon an open mind and unexpected discoveries and encounters. INTEGRITY defines the core of our being and actions, best exemplified by the trust-dimension we transport to all of our engagements.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility

We firmly believe that business and responsible corporate citizenship belong together. Marquard Media Group’s corporate social responsibility commitment is reflected in some

• f the following priority areas: charity

relationships, children support, and environmental protection. “Consumer trends are dynamically changing in Hungary and around the world. More and more people buy responsibly and choose fur-free and cruelty-free products in the fashion and beauty

• sector. Therefore, all Marquard Media

publications announce complete ban on fur products.”

• President of Marquard Media Hungary; Group

Management Board Member, Óhidi Zsuzsanna

Our Purpose 
 and Mission

Our Purpose Empowering communities and social movements to uniquely experience the causes and worlds they aspire to. Our Mission Reinforcing trusted and influential brands as engaging and uniquely value-creating platforms that generate a positive impact

• n personal experiences as well as

professional paths.

Our Operating Model

Marquard Media’s operating model is centred on ‘create. connect. transact.’ (CCT). In its essence, it is a brand-centric approach transforming trusted and influential brands into distinct platforms for community engagement and value exchange. CREATE – the purpose of trusted products and services is to create and engage communities. CONNECT – community engagement is driven by a peer-to-peer quest for novelties, discoveries, and sharing insights leading to value-centric transactions. TRANSACT – curating unique and new business ecosystems, leveraging the trusted brands and fulfil our communities’ transactional aspirations – always delivering unique value. ‘TRANSACT’ is not simply a monetisation approach, but a commitment to bring value to our readers and community members.

Ecosystem Partnerships - MIPP

In alignment with our operating model ‘create.

• connect. transact.’ we want to deliver unique and

new business ecosystems to fulfil our communities’ transactional needs. To achieve this, we are continuously building long-term business partnerships and unique transactional models. Marquard Innovation Partner Program (MIPP) aims at offering companies’ early access to innovation. This access is allowed already at the prototyping stage. Apart from being the first one to receive information

• n new product offerings, MIPP members are invited

to exclusive product presentations, are promoted as MIPP on all relevant corporate materials, and are qualified to receive preferential product offering. Having innovation as an integral part of its corporate strategy, Marquard Media continuously innovates at platform, product and business model levels.

Marquard Innovation Program (MIP)

MIP is a Group Innovation Program that allows each individual employee to innovate, grow as a professional and create value. MIP was launched in order to:

• 1. Empower Marquard Media Group to proactively

anticipate, enact, and drive opportunities for future technological and business model innovation;

• 2. Empower hidden and creative talents with a

platform to grow;

• 3. Allow each employee to express oneself;
• 4. Delight communities that Marquard Media Group

serves; and

• 5. Experience how every individual can make a

change.

Marquard Media Group

• create. connect. transact.

Marquard Media Poland

Marquard Media Polska is operating a trusted platform of brand-centric media assets engaging the entire consumer-spending spectrum through the creation of unique and value-driven business ecosystems centered around prime content, peer-to-peer empowerment, and business model innovation. Trusted and Brand-Centric Transactional
 Media Platform

Marquard Media Poland’s Brands

Marquard Media Hungary

Marquard Media Hungary operates a platform

• f trusted media brands that form digital

networks serving the content as well as transactional needs of dedicated communities: fashion & beauty, entertainment, family &

• utdoors, entertainment, and social
• responsibility. Marquard Media Hungary serves

within the Group as a creative hub building media solutions for Third-Party corporates and as IT-ideation center for transactional community-based applications Trusted and Brand-Centric Creative and Transactional Platform dedicated to Fashion & Beauty, Entertainment, Family & Outdoors, and Social Responsibility

Marquard Media Hungary’s Brands

Computec Media

For more than 30 years, Computec Media has been a pioneer in media solutions for the German-speaking audience passionate about gaming, IT and entertainment. The trusted core brands PC GAMES HARDWARE, PC GAMES and BUFFED serve as data-driven platforms for community engagement and value exchange. Trusted, Brand-Centric and Transaction- focused Media Platform Provider dedicated to Communities enthusiastic about Gaming and IT Entertainment

Computec Media’s Brands

Golem Media

Golem has been recognised in German- speaking territories as the leader of prime- quality journalism dedicated to Information Technology (IT) as (a) one of the leading online portals for news, tests, analyses and commentary, as well as (b) a trustworthy exchange platform for professional development in the form of jobs and project

• ffers, training and advisory. The core of Golem's

purpose is enacting positive changes in the IT industry by empowering professionals in the German-speaking markets to make informed decisions and by fostering personal growth on the job and beyond. Trusted IT News Portal and IT-Talent Platform

4Players

Since 2000, 4Players has been recognised as a leader for multimedia solutions empowering gaming communities and enhancing the gaming experience. 4Players is operating a comprehensive platform combining (a) the leading video-games and eSports portals in the German-speaking markets; (b) a game-server and cloud-apps state-of-the-art infrastructure; (c) a mobile-web platform combining proprietary content creation with real- time community engagement fuelled by value- driven transactional models; and (d) an in-game monetisation and skill-based engagement overlay for game publishers.

Multimedia Solutions empowering Gaming Communities and enhancing Gaming Experience

Marquard Media Group

• create. connect. transact.