| CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA | |
| Trade Name: | Cewe |
| Type: | Publicly traded partnership limited by shares (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien) |
| Traded As: | SDAX component |
| Foundation: | 1961 |
| Location City: | Oldenburg |
| Location Country: | 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 Cyprus |
| Industry: | [1] |
| Products: | Stock photography |
| Homepage: | https://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).