CONTENTshift builds bridges between established companies like ours and innovative young enterprises. Nina Hugendubel
1893 founded, Hugendubel is after 130 years of history one of the largest owner-managed booksellers in Germany. Under the management of siblings Nina and Maximilian Hugendubel, the company is still family-run today in the fifth generation. Hugendubel is co-initiator and co-founder of the internationally unique and successful tolino alliance for digital reading “Made in Germany”. Hugendubel pursues a cross-generational omnichannel strategy with branch bookstores, shop concepts in department stores and other retail spaces, online shops as well as digital and wholesale business and the largest German book community Lovelybooks.de. The company currently employs around 1,600 people across Germany. More information on www.hugendubel.com
Nina Hugendubel is a managing partner and has been the strategic head of Hugendubel together with her brother since 2003. The trained bookseller studied politics, philosophy and economics in Passau and Berlin. Before joining the family business, she worked in the publishing industry, including at Time Warner in New York and Holtzbrinck in Munich and Stuttgart.
Per Dalheimer is Managing Director of Hugendubel Digital Gesellschaft and responsible for the eCommerce business of the brands hugendubel.de, eBook.de and the digital business segment tolino. He studied industrial engineering and began his professional career at Philips Consumer Electronics, founded an Internet company himself in 2000, managed the eCommerce business under Libri.de for a long time and launched eBook.de.