Rank #1712
Yvonne Bauer
Net worth $2.5B
Magazines, media · Germany
- Born
- Mar 29, 1977
- Age
- 49
- Source
- Magazines, media
- Residence
- Hamburg
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Yvonne Bauer runs Bauer Media Group, which has been in her family for five generations since its founding as a small printing company in 1875. Today, its business lines include print publishing, audio and online media.
- Europe's largest magazine company, it focuses on women's content and counts over 600 titles worldwide, including InTouch and Grazia.
- Yvonne Bauer is the second-youngest child of Heinz Heinrich Bauer. She received 85% of the company, while her three sisters each received 5%.
- In 2020, Bauer expanded its reach in the German newspaper industry with the acquisition of Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Halle for an undisclosed sum.
- Prior to joining her family's company in 2005, Bauer apprenticed at publishing House Hoffmann und Campe.
- In the digital sphere, Bauer Group runs over 400 websites and apps, including The Debrief and Lecker.de.
- In 2014, she married Enno Koch, a German television journalist and producer; the couple has twins born in 2015.