Independent service. Data from the Austrian company register.

ÖNACE 58: Publishing activities

Section: Publishing, broadcasting, and content production and distribution activities. Assignment by Statistics Austria under ÖNACE 2025, not from the register.

Statistics Austria assigns 1,470 active companies in the register to ÖNACE division 58: Publishing activities (as of 5 Nov 2026).

490 of them have a company page on firmenbuchdaten.at. The shares below refer to these 490.

Most have their seat in: Vienna 48 %, Upper Austria 11 %, Lower Austria 10 %.

Most common legal forms: GmbH 92 %, KG 6 %, FlexCo 2 %.

Places with the most companies: Wien (234), Graz (26), Linz (20), Innsbruck (19), Salzburg (18).

478 have filed annual accounts with a size class, 32 of them as medium-sized or large.

The largest class is 58.11-0 Publishing of books with 429 companies.

Largest classes

  • 58.11-0 Publishing of books: 429
  • 58.29-0 Other software publishing: 412
  • 58.13-0 Publishing of journals and periodicals: 331
  • 58.19-0 Other publishing activities, except software publishing: 152
  • 58.12-0 Publishing of newspapers: 107

Publishing activities: companies, larger first

Datenquelle: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (Statistics Austria), register number to ÖNACE assignment, CC BY 4.0, as of 5 Nov 2026. Source: Austrian company register (Firmenbuch), Republic of Austria, represented by the BMJ, open data under CC BY 4.0.