Irene Frei heads magazine publishing at AZ Medien
The AZ Medien Group's magazine publishing division is now headed by Irene Frei. She succeeds Ueli Eckstein, who had been leading the division on an interim basis.
The AZ Medien Group's magazine publishing house is now under the management of Irene Frei. She succeeds Ueli Eckstein, Head of Print Media, who has been managing the magazine publishing house ad interim. Irene Frei will take up her new position in Aarau on September 1, 2006. She has extensive management and marketing experience in the publishing and communications industry. In the 1990s she worked for Tamedia, Ringier and Weka Verlag before setting up her own business in 1998.
In 2002, Irene Frei played a key role in setting up the AZ magazine "Kochen" as project manager. For the past three years, she worked for the German Haufe Media Group and was Managing Director of its Swiss subsidiary Haufe BusinessMedia in Zurich.
The AZ Medien Group's magazine publishing house employs around 50 people, who generate sales of around CHF 20 million with the publication of "Kochen", "Natürlich", "Fit for Life", "Technica", "Batitech", "MegaLink Precision", "Elektrotechnik" and "HK Gebäudetechnik".
