sh:z's publications have a circulation of over 150,000[5] with readership of about half a million people.
Like the Schwerin newspaper publisher and the A. Beig Druckerei in Pinneberg, is a wholly owned subsidiary of medien holding:nord GmbH based in Flensburg.
The Federal Cartel Office gave the green light for the merger on April 7.
The managing directors are Stefan Berthold, Jens Wegmann and Paul Wehberg.
The editors-in-chief are Stefan Hans Kläsener, Miriam Scharlibbe, Gerrit Bastian Mathiesen and Jan Frederik Schönstedt.