Quest (Dutch magazine)
Quest is a monthly popular science magazine published by Hearst NL Magazines, located in Amsterdam.
History and profile
Quest was launched in February 2004. The magazine was part of Gruner + Jahr and is published by G+J Uitgevers on a monthly basis.The headquarters of the magazine is in Amsterdam. The magazine features articles on science and technology with a special reference to nature, health, psychology and history. Target audience of the magazine is people between 20 and 49 years of age. The monthly had several special supplements, Quest Psychologie, Quest Historie, Quest Image and Quest 101.
Karlijn van Overbeek served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine until her death in 2010. Then Thomas Hendriks was appointed to the post.
The magazine is also distributed in Belgium. In 2011 the English version of Quest was launched by Gruner + Jahr in South Africa with the same name. The magazine is published on a bimonthly basis there.
Quest has won the Mercur Magazine Award several times since its start in 2004. The magazine received the award in 2004, in 2007 and in 2009. It was named as the Launch of the Year 2004 and the Magazine of the Year for 2010.