Landwirtschaftsverlag

Passion for agriculture, food and country life! That is our claim and that is what the three major divisions of our publishing house stand for. With more than 40 media offerings and services, we support professionals who produce, process and market food. We also inspire people who feel a special connection to life and people in the countryside.

Our core business includes

Specialist media and services for agriculture,
Public magazines, events and other offerings for all people who like to live well, eat and drink well or enjoy country life in other ways.

The Group's most important companies include, among others

the agricultural publishing house in Münster,
the Deutsche Medien Manufaktur in Münster and Hamburg,
the Polish agricultural publishing house in Poznan and Warsaw,
the dbv network in Berlin (participation),
the Lebensmittel Praxis publishing house in Neuwied and Münster with subsidiaries in Vienna and Warsaw and
the LV Digital in Münster.

With over 900 employees, we generate an annual group turnover of more than 115 million euros. This makes us one of the 100 largest media companies and one of the ten largest specialist publishers in Germany in terms of gross advertising revenue.

This is also our home market. In addition, we are primarily active in Poland, Austria and Switzerland and have a presence in the UK and Ireland, the Netherlands, the Baltic states and Hungary, as well as Greece and Turkey via licenses.

A chronicle in decades

Subsidiary of Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster

Our shareholders

Landwirtschaftsverlag has three shareholders, each holding one third of the share capital.

Westfälisch-Lippischer Landwirtschaftsverband

The Westfälisch-Lippischer Landwirtschaftsverband has represented the interests of around 40,000 farmers and their families in Westphalia-Lippe since 1947. In 19 district associations and around 520 local associations, it supports its members in agricultural, economic and socio-political matters, in legal, tax and social policy as well as in the field of education and cultural policy.

Raiffeisenverband Westfalen-Lippe

Since 2014, over 60 commodity and livestock cooperatives have been organized in the Raiffeisenverband Westfalen-Lippe, which together generate an annual turnover of over three billion euros. The main sources of turnover are the production and trade of animal feed, the trade of agricultural products and seeds, fertilizers and pesticides as well as livestock and slaughter animals.

Stiftung Westfälische Landschaft

The Stiftung Westfälische Landschaft was established in 1987 and emerged from WL Bank AG Westfälische Landschaft Bodenkreditbank. According to its statutes, the purpose of the foundation is "to serve the welfare and efficiency of rural areas and to promote the general interests of agriculture and forestry for the benefit of the general public".