Without a doubt, Handelsblatt Media Group is the top address for business and financial information in Germany, standing as it does for well-researched, investigative and independent quality journalism. Its publications, Handelsblatt (trade journal) and WirtschaftsWoche (business week), are the best known media in this field, reaching two million readers a day, in print as well as digital formats. The Handelsblatt Media Group also owns a wide range of other trade titles and service businesses. Several years ago, this company grasped the need to transform itself from a traditional newspaper and publishing company into a modern media business with a wide array of digital products, navigating a new course towards a successful future.

In late 2017, the 1000 or so men and women employed there moved into their new seven-storey, ultra-modern media building known as 'La Tête' (in English: 'The Head') in the Düsseldorf district known as Le Quartier Central (The Central Quarter), home to the editorial teams of Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche as well as to a range of administrative functions and subsidiaries. This media building is equipped with leading-edge technology, featuring open spaces flooded with light from luminaires supplied by Herbert Waldmann GmbH & Co. KG.

It is a matter of great importance to the Handelsblatt Media Group that the people it employs all feel good about their place of work. One of the aspects to help ensure this is to have truly ultra-modern lighting solutions, and there can be no doubt that Waldmann provides precisely that. The LAVIGO free-standing luminaires create much less glare than other task luminaires, despite the fact that they deliver very powerful lighting. Another example is provided by the VIVAA suspended luminaires, used in the communication areas. With convincing ease, VIVAA delivers optimum lighting conditions.

It blends harmoniously into each ambience. Its seamless design in stainless steel bathes rooms in a pleasant, bright light. “It was our objective to create made-to-measure communication spaces, suitable environments for controversial discussions to be held. In addition, the brand personality of Handelsblatt Media Group should be tangible and visible everywhere. Herbert Waldmann GmbH & Co. KG delivered an important contribution towards this goal, one with which we are absolutely satisfied”, reports interior designer Claudia de Bruyn.


Company: HANDELSBLATT MEDIA GROUP GMBH & CO. KG

Sector: Journalism

Lighting solution: LAVIGO free-standing luminaire / VIVAA suspended luminaire