{{Short description|Business magazine in Germany}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | category = Business magazine | company = Hubert Burda Media | publisher = Focus Magazin Verlag | founded = 2000 | firstdate = {{start date and age|df=y|2000|3|30}} | country = Germany | based = Munich | language = German | website = [http://www.focus.de/finanzen/money-magazin/ ''Focus Money''] | issn = 1615-4576 | oclc = 85602834 }} '''''Focus Money''''' (stylized in all caps) is a business magazine published in Munich, Germany. It is one of the spin-offs of the German news magazine ''Focus'' and has been in circulation since 2000.
==History and profile== ''Focus Money'' was first published on 30 March 2000.<ref name=port>{{cite web|title=Portrait of a magazine. Focus Money|work=Medialine |url=http://www.medialine.de/media/uploads/projekt/medialine/docs/service/bestellung_download/englisch/2_Object%20Information/2_FOCUS-MONEY/focus_money_object_profile.pdf|access-date=3 May 2015|archive-date=21 December 2014|year=2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221160747/http://www.medialine.de/media/uploads/projekt/medialine/docs/service/bestellung_download/englisch/2_Object%20Information/2_FOCUS-MONEY/focus_money_object_profile.pdf}}</ref><ref name=newb>{{cite news|title='Focus-Money' kommt am 30.3. mit 320.000 Exemplaren|url=http://www.newbusiness.de/medien/detail.php?rubric=MEDIEN&nr=15581|access-date=30 April 2015|work=New Business|date=29 March 2000|language=de}}</ref><ref name=diew>{{cite news|title="Focus Money"-Chef Schumacher tritt zurück|url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article510407/Focus-Money-Chef-Schumacher-tritt-zurueck.html|access-date=30 April 2015|work=Die Welt|date=5 April 2000|language=de}}</ref> Its slogan was "Fakten machen Geld" (German: "Facts make money").<ref name=newb/> The magazine is part of Hubert Burda Media<ref>{{cite news|title=New York Daily News Retracts Story on Focus Magazine's Kim Basinger Interview|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-york-daily-news-retracts-story-on-focus-magazines-kim-basinger-interview-73420352.html|access-date=30 April 2015|work=PR Newswire|date=26 September 2000|location=Los Angeles}}</ref> and is published by Focus Magazin Verlag weekly on Wednesdays.<ref name=fmf>{{cite web|title=Focus Money. Factsheet|url=http://www.publicitas.com/germany/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/focus-money/?PARAM1=FM4FM3#.VUJO-drtmko |work=Publicitas|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref> Its headquarters is in Munich.<ref name=fmf/>
The magazine covers articles on business, politics, companies, finance, tax, law, investment, insurance, telecommunications, motoring and careers.<ref name=bcn/> Its target audience is decision makers in business and in society.<ref name=bcn>{{cite web|title=Focus Money|url=http://bcn.burda.com/brands/german-magazines/focus-money-the-modern-business-magazine_aid_943.html|publisher=Burda Community Network|access-date=30 April 2015|archive-date=29 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229182255/http://bcn.burda.com/brands/german-magazines/focus-money-the-modern-business-magazine_aid_943.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It annually publishes a list of major German tax consultancy and audit firms.<ref>{{cite news|work=SH+C|title=SH+C awarded by FOCUS-Money 2013|url=http://www.shc.de/german-tax-consultants.php/nr/1/aid/154/kat/44|access-date=30 April 2015|archive-date=31 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140731122723/http://www.shc.de/german-tax-consultants.php/nr/1/aid/154/kat/44|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The first editor-in-chief of ''Focus Money'' was Manfred Schumacher who resigned from the post on 5 April 2000, only five days after the start of the magazine.<ref name=diew/> Frank Pöpsel replaced him in the post.<ref name=port/><ref name=bcn/>
In 2005 ''Focus Magazine'' started an e-paper, ''Der Vermögensverwalter'' (German: ''The Asset Manager''), which is emailed to subscribers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vermögensverwaltung der quirin bank als "herausragend" prämiert|publisher=Finanzratgeber24|access-date=9 July 2022 |url=https://www.finanzratgeber24.de/themen/vermoegensverwaltertest-von-focus-money/|language=de}}</ref>
==Circulation== In 2001 ''Focus Money'' had a circulation of 149,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)|url=http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/top50finance.pdf|work=Magazine Organization|access-date=30 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213185512/http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/top50finance.pdf|format=Report|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 December 2014}}</ref> The magazine sold 135,751 copies during the first quarter of 2005.<ref name=port/> The circulation of the magazine was down to 142,210 copies in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Magazine Trends 2010/2011|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165145/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf|archive-date=2 April 2015|work=FIPP|access-date=30 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> During the first quarter of 2015, its circulation was down to 126,846 copies.<ref name=bcn/> In the fourth quarter 2016 the magazine sold 123,378 copies.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Victor Tiberius|author2=Laura Lisiecki|title=Stock Price Forecast Accuracy and Recommendation Profitability of Financial Magazines|journal=International Journal of Financial Studies|year=2019|volume=7|issue=4|page=2|doi=10.3390/ijfs7040058|doi-access=free|hdl=10419/257656|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
==See also== List of magazines in Germany
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.focus.de/finanzen/money-magazin/}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Focus Money}} Category:2000 establishments in Germany Category:Business magazines published in Germany Category:German-language magazines Category:Magazines established in 2000 Category:Magazines published in Munich Category:Weekly magazines published in Germany