Haufe Group:
As a combination, unique.

With the continuous development of artificial intelligence, the Haufe Group is entering a new era in which machines are not just tools, but can decide, learn and act independently.

Haufe Group divests Haufe Lexware Real Estate AG for strategic reasons.

The corporate brand Haufe Group becomes the overarching employer brand for the group of companies. The business brands are being repositioned and redesigned.

Realignment of Haufe Group is initiated. It becomes the higher-level employer brand and paves the way for the Group's future.

Sustainability is anchored in the corporate strategy. The Haufe Group is embarking on the path of climate neutrality.

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Sustainability is anchored in the corporate strategy. Haufe Group is committed to the scientifically based Net Zero standard of the STBi and is on the path to climate neutrality.

The Haufe Group has received several awards as a GreatPlace to Work and is one of the 100 best employers in Germany.

Haufe Group is recognized as a Great Place to Work and is one of the 100 best employers in Germany. Awards are also received for Best Employer in Baden-Württemberg and ICT.

Haufe Group Ventures is launched. Investments are made in various start-ups.

Haufe Group divests Umantis and Steuerbot for strategic reasons.

Haufe Group Ventures starts, and great investments in the promising start-ups Hivebuy and nuwo are made right at the beginning. The third investment in ai-omatic solutions follows shortly afterwards.

Other modern working environments for up to 400 new employees are being created at the Freiburg campus.

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The new building on the campus in Freiburg creates modern working environments for up to 400 new colleagues.

With the hybrid work model, teams decide together with their managers whether they work in the office or remotely.

The hybrid working model emerges: we allow teams to decide together with their managers how often they meet in the office or work remotely.

A new software development area is being created in Barcelona.

The first location in Spain opens in Barcelona.

Acquisition of Umantis in St. Gallen and smartsteuer in Hanover.

The development site in Timișoara (Romania) is opened.

Apps and Internet portals for taxes, personnel and accounting, such as the “Haufe Certificate Manager” and the first cloud-based accounting solution “lexoffice”, are being created.

Inauguration of the Timișoara site in Romania. Haufe-Lexware Real Estate AG is founded.

Apps and internet portals for taxes, HR and accounting such as the “Haufe Zeugnis Manager” and the first cloud-based accounting solution “lexoffice” are created.

The Haufe Service Center is founded.

The publisher sells its printing machines and is increasingly using digital products.

The publishing house sells its printing presses and turns to digitalization.

The company invests in the Freiburg start-up Lexware. Lexware is a software company and offers an electronic travel expense report. The once classic publishing house is increasingly turning into a software and media company.

Acquisition of the Freiburg software start-up Lexware.

The portfolio is supplemented with paid online offers. Users can dial in, leave messages in the system and retrieve specialist information under the BTX number *33933#. Payment is made via the telephone bill at 40 pfennigs per minute.

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The first fee-based online services complement the range.

The first PC in the editorial offices is put into operation.

The publisher is one of the first German companies to take part in field tests with screen text (BTX) — one of the forerunners of the Internet.

The publishing house is one of the first German companies to take part in field trials with on-screen text, considered one of the forerunners of the internet.

With the “Haufe Seminars”, continuing education is offered for the first time. The Haufe Academy is created.

Haufe Seminars offer further training. The Haufe Akademie is established.

The “Human Resources Office in Law and Practice” is published. The loose-leaf work provides knowledge for HR departments. Over 84,000 subscribers are acquired within two years. The publishing house is thus paving the way into the HR departments of companies — a business area in which the Haufe Group is still successful today.

"Das Personalbüro in Recht und Praxis" (The Personnel Office in Law and Practice) is published. The binder provides personnel-related knowledge and explains legal specifications.

Relocation to the publishing building in Hindenburgstrasse in Freiburg. The publishing house employs over 100 people.

Rudolf Haufe moves his publishing house to Freiburg im Breisgau on Freiburger Hauptstraße 28, where the loose-leaf work “Steuer- und Wirtschaftskurzpost” (“StWK”) is being developed. At the end of 1951, the “StWK” already had 4,740 subscribers.

Foundation of Rudolf Haufe Verlagin Freiburg. Publication of the loose-leaf publication "Steuer- und Wirtschaftskurzpost" (Tax and Business News).

Rudolf Haufe founded the “Wirtschafts-Wacht-Gesellschaft” in Berlin at the age of 30, which was entered in the commercial register on April 5, 1934. This date is considered the founding date of the later Rudolf Haufe Verlag, which operates under this name from 1940.

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