please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message teneues publishing type limited liability corporation gmbh & go . kg industry publishing founded 1931 headquarters kempen lower rhineland germany key people hendrik teneues sebastian teneues number of employees 130 worldwide website teneues publishing group teneues pronounced ta no es is a publishing company founded by dr. heinz teneues in krefeld germany in 1931 . it is a third generation family firm and one of the leading book publishers in the areas of photography design lifestyle and travel . teneues publishes coffee table books focusing on fashion travel and interior design illustrated calendars and stationery products such as blank books and greeting cards . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the firm was founded in 1931 as an offset printer by dr. heinz teneues . the printing plant was destroyed in the second world war and rebuilt in kempen . with his son manfred heinz teneues set up the first publishing program which consisted of art prints and school posters . in 1958 the first teneues art calendar was published . at the end of the 1960s greeting cards were added to the product range . in 1977 dr. manfred teneues founded an independent teneues publishing enterprise to separate it from the printing division . in 1982 manfred teneues s eldest son hendrik teneues founded the teneues publishing company in new york the company s first overseas office . subsidiaries were later established in london and paris . the company produces calendars greetings cards posters and blank books . the company also marketed art books by european publishers in the u.s. market . in 1995 the first teneues book line was founded in new york with an emphasis on photography . in the same year sebastian teneues younger brother of hendrik teneues joined the publishing group . in 1999 dr. manfred teneues moved over to the company s board of directors whose president werner klatten is also managing director of the german sports council . the corporation has a total of 130 employees as of 2010 . it also operates retail stores in d sseldorf hamburg cologne and munich . teneues has over 200 licensing partners from a wide variety of areas such as art photography comics music sports and entertainment serves over 70 countries through subsidiaries commercial representatives or partner firms . products edit the company publishes content for heidi klum michael poliza russell james don ed hardy and porsche . teneues produces a broad range of coffee table books spanning categories such as animals architecture art design erotica fashion food hotels lifestyle nature and ecology photography popular culture restaurants shops stern fotografie and travel . teneues also provides custom publishing for clients that include bmw porsche lufthansa henkel schwarzkopf cartier hasselblad chopard ferrari dior and swarovski . teneues publishes approximately 500 illustrated calendars annually on a wide variety of themes e.g. nature calendars for national geographic ; art calendars that include magritte and keith haring ; comic calendars for walt disney ; as well as on such stars as the beatles and tokio world . teneues also publishes illustrated titles on photography design lifestyle and travel . approximately 60 books per year are marketed under the teneues name including such bestsellers as eyes over africa cool hotels and luxury houses . photographers work with teneues including bruce weber tim walker russell james rankin elliot erwitt martin schoeller robert mapplethorpe michael poliza frank de mulder and matthew rolston . in both 2007 and 2008 teneues s illustrated titles received the vill giature prize in the best european hotel guide category . in the same years michael poliza and tim walker received the german photography book award for their works with teneues . in 2007 teneues was named brand of the century in the area of picture calendars . 1 references edit marken des jahrhunderts german external links edit stern jared paul undated the classicist a perfect pictorial history of porsche luxist.com . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title teneues & oldid 613276295 categories book publishing companies of germanypublishing companies established in 1931visual arts publishing companieshidden categories articles with german language external linksarticles needing additional references from july 2010all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 17 june 2014 at 12 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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