Christian Dorer becomes Head of Communications at the FMC
Effective February 1, 2024, Christian Dorer will assume the role of Head of Communications at the Migros Cooperative Association (MGB) and take on editorial responsibility for Migros Media.
As Head of Communications for the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, Christian Dorer is responsible for the strategic communication objectives and the coordination of communications for the Migros Group. In coordination with the marketing communications department of Migros Supermarkets, he bears journalistic responsibility for the Migros media. He reports directly to the Chairman of the FMC Executive Board, Mario Irminger.
Dorer was most recently Deputy CEO and, since 2017, Editor-in-Chief of the Blick Group at Ringier. He began his journalistic career a good 20 years ago as business and parliamentary editor at the View. From 2009 to 2017 he was editor-in-chief of the Aargauer newspaper. In March 2023, it became known that Dorer had has to take a time-outfollowed by the definitive decision in August 2023 that he would resign as Editor-in-Chief. will not resume.
Together with a team of around 50 employees, Christian Dorer's main task is to provide communications support for the transformation process in the course of the upcoming reorganization of the Migros Group's supermarket and hypermarket business.
In November 2023, the FMC communicated the integration of the Marketing & Media Directorate into the Marketing Communications department of Migros Supermarkets. In the course of this, it was announced that the previous Head of the Communication & Media Directorate, Martin Nellen, would "relinquish his duties".
