Orell Füssli buys book publisher Huber from Tamedia

 The Tamedia media group is selling a further division of its subsidiary Huber & Co: the Frauenfeld-based book publisher Huber will be transferred to Orell Füssli Verlag on January 1, 2008. The publishing house, which was founded in 1809 and has around 200 available titles, will continue to operate as an independent program division within Orell Füssli Verlag at the Frauenfeld site, as Tamedia announced. All employees will be taken over and the central functions will be merged. According to the announcement, the purchase will be made in cash and the parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The almost two-hundred-year-old publishing house Huber has a range of non-fiction books in the fields of history, linguistics, cultural history, communication and militaria. One pillar of the range is works specific to Thurgau. The takeover by Orell Füssli should ensure that the publishing house continues to produce books largely independently in the future.
Tamedia acquired the company Huber & Co. in 2005 (see
). The Zurich publishing house had already sold parts of it last September: the commercial printing division of Huber Printpack and the magazine publishing division of Huber & Co (see ).