Cewe

German printing company

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photographic processing
commercial printing

^[1]Founded1961Headquarters

Oldenburg

Germany

Area served

Europe, except Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Malta and CyprusProductsStock photographyRevenue780,200,000 Euro (2023)

Operating income

81,610,000 Euro (2023)

Net income

57,310,000 Euro (2023)

Total assets665,960,000 Euro (2023)

Number of employees

3,731 (2023)

Websitehttps://www.cewe.de

Cewe is a German printing company based in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. Founded in 1961 it is the largest photo printing company in Europe with its main source of the revenue now the digital printing of photos, photo books and calendars.^[2]

The company has expanded through acquisitions of competing and similar companies, among which are Laserline, Viaprinto, Pixum and Saxoprint.^[3]^[4] In 2010, Cewe was awarded "Best Innovator" by the magazine WirtschaftsWoche for the successful transformation into a digital company.^[5]

Aside from its first party sales through app and website, Cewe also produces photo products for other companies in the background, including Germany's two leading drug stores dm and Rossmann and a range of large retail chains.

In addition to the company headquarters in Oldenburg, Cewe has production sites in Germany in Mönchengladbach, Eschbach near Freiburg, Germering near Munich, Dresden, Berlin and Münster. In other European countries, Cewe has locations in the Czech Republic (Prague), France (Rennes, Montpellier), Poland (Kędzierzyn-Koźle in Upper Silesia), Romania (Bucharest), Hungary (Budapest) and the United Kingdom (Warwick).

References

^ "About Us - CEWE". company.cewe.de. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
^ "Online-Druck für Cewe immer wichtiger" [Online printing is becoming increasingly important for Cewe] (in German). Nordwest-Zeitung. 2015-03-25.
^ Bergmann, Gerd (2017-10-24). "Cewe übernimmt Berliner Druckerei Laserline" [Cewe takes over Berlin printing house Laserline]. Print.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-04.
^ "Kommerzieller Online-Druck - CEWE". company.cewe.de. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
^ Hans-Jürgen Klesse (2010-02-04). "Wettbewerb "Best Innovator" - Die innovativsten Firmen des Jahres" [The most innovative companies of the year]. Wirtschaftswoche (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-08-27.