XING

New Work SE
Type of businessSocietas Europaea
Type of site
Professional network service
Available in
Traded asFWBNWO
FoundedAugust 2003 (2003-08)
HeadquartersHamburg, Germany
Key people
  • Petra von Strombeck (CEO)
  • Patrick Alberts (CPO)
  • Ingo Chu (CFO)
  • Jens Pape (CTO)
  • Martin Weiss (chairman of the supervisory board)
Revenue€235.1 million (2018)[1]
Total assets€273.5 million (2018)[2]
Total equity€98.3 million (2018)
Employees2327 (2020)
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RegistrationRequired
LaunchedNovember 2003 (2003-11)

XING is a Hamburg-based career-oriented social networking site, operated by New Work SE (until mid-2019 XING SE) and owned mainly by Hubert Burda Media.[3][4]

The site is primarily focused on the German-speaking market, alongside XING Spain, and competes with the American platform LinkedIn.[5][6]

  1. ^ https://corporate.xing.com/fileadmin/user_upload/XING_FY_2018_Results_Presentation.pdf/ [dead link]
  2. ^ 2018 Prelim results
  3. ^ "Karrierenetzwerk: Xing-Betreiberfirma heißt künftig New Work SE". Handelsblatt (in German). Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  4. ^ Voß, Jochen. "Burda wird größter Aktionär bei Netzwerk Xing". DWDL.de (in German). Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Class war". The Economist. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  6. ^ Markoff, John (24 January 2007). "Move Over Silicon Valley, Here Come European Start-Ups". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 July 2019.

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