Irene Frei leaves AZ Medien
Irene Frei, head of the AZ Medien Group's magazine publishing division, is leaving the company at the end of April at her own request. Her successor has not yet been named.
Irene Frei, Head of Magazine Publishing at AZ Medien Group, is leaving the company at her own request at the end of April. She wants to return to professional independence, according to a statement issued on Monday. Frei joined the AZ Medien Group in September 2006. She was responsible for various interest and specialist magazines, including Kochen, Fit for Life, Technica and Natürlich. Before joining the AZ Medien Group, Frei worked for the German Haufe Mediengruppe and was Managing Director of its Swiss subsidiary Haufe Business Media. In the 1990s, she was project and marketing service manager at Tamedia and Ringier as well as profit center manager at Weka Verlag AG, before devoting herself to various publishing mandates as an independent entrepreneur from 1998.
Her successor has not yet been determined and will be appointed in the coming weeks.
