Migros Has Appointed a New Head of Marketing

 The retail group Migros has chosen a successor for the departing Head of Marketing Urs Riedener, but does not yet wish to disclose the name. The head of the newly created Retail department has also been appointed: Ernst Dieter Berninghaus will take over the post. Migros will not announce the name of the newly elected head of the Marketing department until later, as it announced on Friday, out of consideration for the internal communications of his current employer. Whoever it is, he will succeed Urs Riedener, who is moving to milk processor Emmi as CEO.
Ernst Dieter Berninghaus, the second new member of the Executive Board of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, has played a key role in the merger between Migros and Denner as an advisor to Denner CEO Philippe Gaydoul and as a member of the Denner Board of Directors, as the press release explains. Prior to this, he held management positions at the international retail group Metro for several years and was spokesman for the board of the Rewe Group.
Office World, Interio and the Globus department stores, as well as Denner, Ex Libris, Migrol (incl. convenience stores) and Le Shop, which were combined under the Globus Group umbrella until a year ago, are now part of the newly created Retail department.