DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG is a German general publishing house based in Cologne and belongs to the M. DuMont Schauberg media group. Marcus DuMont, the eponymous founder of this publishing group, worked as a bookseller in Cologne before gaining a foothold in the newspaper business by taking over the Kölnische Zeitung (1805). In 1956, the DuMont Buchverlag was finally founded by Ernst Brücher, initially as a pure art book and calendar publisher. In the 1970s, travel guides developed into the most important program segment. Since 1998, literary titles have also been published. In 2001, the publishing house was split into the labels DuMont Literatur- und Kunstverlag, DuMont Reiseverlag and DuMont monte (calendar) in accordance with its program pillars. At the end of 2004, the Dumont Reiseverlag was taken over by Mair Verlag, which from then on operated as MairDumont; Dumont monte was spun off as an independent sister publishing house under the name DuMont Kalenderverlag. The name of the remaining general publishing house was changed back to DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG in mid-2008.
The Brandmonks marketing team designed marketing campaigns for numerous brands of the DuMont parent company – including Baedeker, Baedeker Smart, Lonely Planet and DuMont Reiseabenteuer – that specifically met the jointly defined requirements and were successfully implemented.