Daniel Hofer takes over
in the management of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG
for the publishing and printing divisions. At the beginning of 2006 he succeeds
Marco de Stoppani, who is retiring. Hofer is currently CEO of
Publicitas Promotion Network and member of the PubliGroupe Group Management.
Bruno Niederberger (picture) replaces Martin Bohli as
Sales consultant at Kommunalmagazin and Gestion et Services
Publics. Niederberger has many years of experience in the
advertising business, which he has been running with various specialist publishers, especially in the
Transport and Technology division. The municipal magazine belongs to
like Werbewoche to Springer Science & Business Media.
Thomas Kords becomes new manager
of the Marketing and Media Services department at Edipub. He joins
At the beginning of September to the marketing company for Edipresse magazines in
Zurich. Kords was most recently Key Account Coordinator at Ringier
active.
At the beginning of August, Pasquale Li Voti
joined Web2com as Account Manager. He is dedicated to the
Customer acquisition and support in all areas of the
online marketing. Li Voti was previously responsible for youth marketing at the St.
Galler Kantonalbank. Before that, he worked for advertising agencies
and gained professional experience on the customer side.
Loredana Ventre strengthens the
Account Director for Grey Zurich. She is moving from
retailer Jelmoli to the advertising agency. Ventre previously worked at the Gottlieb
Duttweiler Institute and as a consultant in agencies such as ASGS or
Wirz. 

is strengthening its Swiss general management with Eric Hoesli (photo). The former publishing director and editor-in-chief of Le Temps is taking over the newly created position of director of the regional press at the Lausanne publishing house Edipresse. He will be reporting to Antoine Exchaquet as head of the Tribune de Genève and Pierre Buntschu as head of 24 Heures and the Vaud publications. ...
Former SonntagsBlick editor-in-chief Martin Hofer has been appointed Senior Consultant at Burson-Marsteller. He will join the Zurich-based communications agency at the beginning of September in the areas of public affairs and media relations. Hofer ran SonntagsBlick from January to October 2003, before which he was head of the "10vor10" news program at SF DRS.
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Stefan Vogler is leaving the advertising agency Grey Switzerland at the end of August. According to a press release, the former Chairman and Managing Partner is "open to new challenges". He will hand over the management of the agency in July
to the Managing Director of Grey Geneva, Charris Yadigaroglou (photo), who has been appointed CEO. From the same date, Grey Zurich will continue to be managed by Christoph Vogler, previously responsible for Strategic Planning. Uli Veigel, Head of Grey Germany, will take over as Chairman of Grey Worldwide AG at the beginning of September.
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Patrick Steinemann has been writing for Schaffhauser Nachrichten as domestic editor since the beginning of July. He previously worked as a freelance journalist for Werbewoche and Media Trend Journal, among others.
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The regional broadcasters Tele M1 and TeleTell are increasing their pool of technicians at the joint production company TMT Productions from 9 to 13 full-time positions. The previously vacant position of Head of Technology and Production will be split. Bruno Zus, who previously worked at SF DRS for "10vor10", has been appointed Head of Production as of October. Jann Erne, who has worked as a freelance producer for Tele M1 and TeleTell for many years, will take over as Head of Technology.
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Monika Nievergelt joins the Zurich consulting agency Bretscher + Partner as a consultant at the beginning of July. The former advertising manager for the Wireline & Internet divisions at Sunrise is strengthening the range of services in the areas of communication, advertising and media relations.

(Fig.) has been elected as the new president of the Swiss branded goods association Promarca.Alexander Jost (Fig.) has been elected as the new president of the Swiss branded goods association Promarca. He replaces Dario Kuster, who is retiring after seven years in office. Alexander Jost was Executive Vice President of Nestlé Switzerland until his early retirement at the end of October 2004....
Lang Gysi Knoll has a new co-owner: Alfredo Trasatti
acquires a stake in the Berne advertising agency and becomes a member of the Executive Board. He was most recently head of marketing for passenger transport at SBB. Trasatti is married to consultant Nicole Trasatti-Huber, who has been a partner in the agency since 2001.
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Bernard Maissen has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss Dispatch Agency (SDA). He replaces Bernard Reist, who is moving to the canton of Valais as head of information. Maissen will take up his post in the fall. He is currently editor-in-chief of the SRG station Radio Rumantsch.
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Gilbert Bühler replaces Paul Stritt as publishing director of Freiburger Nachrichten AG (FN). Stritt is retiring after more than 40 years of service to the FN. Bühler will take up his post in January 2006. He is currently an independent management consultant and lecturer at vocational and technical colleges.
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At the beginning of October, Barbla C. Schaerer (picture) joins cR Kommunikation as a new co-owner. At the same time, as agency manager, she will take over the overall management of the three locations in Küsnacht/Zurich, Bern and Basel. Schaerer was previously a member of the Executive Board at Trimedia Switzerland and Managing Director of Trimedia Zurich.
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Victor Breu is to become the new editor-in-chief of Finanz und Wirtschaft. He is currently deputy editor-in-chief of HandelsZeitung. The timing of his change is still open, but the succession has already been arranged: HandelsZeitung has appointed finance editor Pascal Ihle as its new deputy editor-in-chief.
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Paul Meiler is the new training manager at Polycom Zurich. At the end of May, he replaced Beat Hodel, who had headed the training institute since its launch in the fall of 2003. Meiler has been working as an independent communications trainer since 1987.

Cécile Heusser-Bachmann is building up the Socially Responsible Investments division at the Zurich PR agency Vipr as a Senior Consultant, and from the beginning of July she will be responsible for communications at SAM Sustainable Asset Management. ...
Former Balance Sheet Editor-in-Chief Medard Meier (photo) will be in charge of the Watch International customer magazine of the watch brand IWC. He replaces Ignaz Miller. He will retain his position as communications consultant at the think tank Avenir Suisse.
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In the fall, Felix Bingesser will replace Michael Wehrle as head of the sports department at the Aargauer Zeitung. Wehrle wants to return to more journalistic activities. Bingesser is currently head of sports at the Stuttgarter Zeitung.
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Christoph Ottiger has been appointed Deputy Director of the Swiss Public Relations Institute (SPRI). He took over the operational management in May. He is supported by former SPRI Director Eric Herzog. Olivier Rappaz was also elected as a new member of the Executive Board.
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Propaganda, the specialist for special advertising formats, has strengthened its team. Marketing planner Tanja Siebenförcher, marketing assistant Sabrina Luck and intern Corinne Schwitter have joined the Zurich-based company.
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Claudio Zuccolini is moving from Schweizer Illustrierte back to television - not in front of the camera, but to the "People" editorial team at Sat 1 Switzerland. Zuccolini was previously the presenter of Tele 24's "Inside" and the SF DRS advertising show "Top Spots".

At the beginning of July, Marcel Geissbühler becomes the new Director and General Manager Media at the Biel-based printing and publishing house W. Gassmann. He replaces Joachim Tillessen, who is moving to the Coop Group in the fall. Geissbühler was most recently Head of Conradio, the marketer of Espace Media's electronic media, and managed the business of TeleNews- Combi....
Robert Hegi becomes Head of Sales at Radio Top. At the beginning of September, he will take over from Managing Director Günter Heuberger, who has been in charge of sales at the local station in Eastern Switzerland since it was founded. Hegi is currently Project Manager Sponsoring at Schweizer Radio DRS.
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At the beginning of June, Philipp Welti set up his own agency, Welti Brand Communications, in Küsnacht. Welti built up an advertising department for Farner PR until the end of May. Before that, he was managing director and partner of the Dorland advertising agency.
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Laurence Saas will take over as Media Account Director at Mediaedge CIA in Zurich at the beginning of August. She succeeds Heinz Baumann.
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Daniel Kraft is now an equal partner of Scholtysik Niederberger. Accordingly, the corporate identity and branding agency has changed its name to Scholtysik Niederberger Kraft (SNK). Kraft joined the agency in summer 2004 as project manager and senior designer.
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Markus Kaufmann, previously Head of Corporate Communications at the Zurich-based software company Netcetera, is now responsible for the development of new business areas and products at cR Kommunikation. Management board member Stefan Gürtler is leaving the agency. He will be joining the Institute for Corporate Communications at the Solothurn University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer on July 1.
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Andreas Schaffner takes over as Managing Director of Ringier Print Adligenswil. At the beginning of July, he will take over from Karl Lehmann, who is retiring. Schaffner was previously Head of Strategic Projects at the Ringier printing company.

(Image) Editor-in-chief of Glückspost. Since June 1, Bea Zollinger Schwander has been responsible for the service area of Glückspost, which is to be significantly expanded in mid-June....
Alexander Roosdorp becomes Managing Director Advertising at Farner Consulting. The agency is expanding its marketing communications offering and restructuring its services with the two brands Farner PR and Farner Advertising. Roosdorp was previously Senior Manager Marketing Communications at the German provider T-Online.
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Martin Vogel will take over as Head of Marketing and Communications at Swiss Casinos at the beginning of August. He is currently responsible for corporate marketing and communications at 3M (Switzerland).
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Thomas Bucher is the new Brand Director of Nissan Switzerland. He already holds the same position at Nissan Austria. Bucher was already responsible for the Nissan business in Switzerland as General Director from 1997 to 2000.
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The agency for live and performance communication Group Worldspan is strengthening its team. Antoinette Hug has been appointed Project Manager for Incentive Travel. Sandra Drgala has been appointed International Sales Manager at the Barcelona office. Sabine Biedermann joins as Senior Consultant for Dialog Marketing, Barbara Gerber as Senior Project Manager for Event Marketing. At the beginning of July, Tanya Barlogis (photo) also joins the company as
Senior Consultant in Event Marketing.

previously Senior Account Director at Publicis Zurich, is moving to McCann Erickson Geneva as Managing Partner. From the beginning of June, he will form a tandem with long-standing Managing Director Curdin Janett, according to the agency.Philippe Meyer, Meyer will in future act as a bridge builder between German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland....
Peter Ulmann has been appointed Head of Sales at Radio Basilisk's marketing company Medag. He will take up the position on June 2. He is currently
Ulmann will be working as Head of Sales for the Basel regional television station NW 1. The previous Basilisk sales manager, Monique Stauffer, will be
Ulmann's deputy and key account manager.
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Schreibwerk Verlag is strengthening its advertising sales team with Susanne Frischknecht. From the beginning of July, she will be responsible for the German-speaking regions of Switzerland and Ticino for the magazines Massiv and SuperSolo. Frischknecht previously worked as advertising manager for Bolero.
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Willem Baumann joins McCann Erickson Zurich as Art Director at the beginning of June. Baumann has already been working for the agency on a freelance basis for two months. He previously worked at Advico Young & Rubicam.
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As Business Development Manager, Nico Podgorny is taking over the development of online dialog and permission marketing at Swissclick. Podgorny most recently worked as an Account Manager in the B2B sector for the online computer retailer Bechtle Comsoft Direct.
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Connie Voigt is taking over as editor-in-chief of HR Today. She takes over from Cordelia Kissling, who headed the specialist magazine for human resource management for eight years. Connie Voigt was most recently Head of Communications at the airline catering company Gate Gourmet.

Urs Peter Stebler is the new Head of Corporate Communications at Neue Aargauer Bank. Stebler held the same position at the Bern-based power plant group BKW FMB until last fall. ...
At the beginning of July, Gianni Huber will take over as editor-in-chief of the private radio station Radio Top in Eastern Switzerland. He replaces Oliver Steffen, who is taking on a new challenge in the media sector. Huber is currently working for Radio Top as head of service.
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The new location marketing organization for Gossau SG and Andwil starts operations at the beginning of June. Independent strategy developer and communications consultant Max Nadig has been appointed to head the organization. He is a local councillor in Herisau and former tourism director of the Appenzellerland region.
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Christoph Meinen joined the PR agency Piar Bern as a consultant at the beginning of May. The trained graphic designer and marketing planner previously worked for the Solothurn marketing agency Pomcany's.
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Art Director Sascha Fanetti (photo) is joining the advertising agency Lesch + Frei. He most recently worked for Ruf Lanz. Karin Hauser will be his assistant. She joins from Seiler Zurich, where she has worked as Junior Art Director for the last four years.
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The German-Swiss Association for Sponsoring (Faspo)
has appointed Oskar Gut to the extended Board of Directors. Gut is a member of the management of Erdgas Ostschweiz. Together with Jean-Baptiste Felten, he will represent the interests of Faspo in Switzerland in future.

(pictured) becomes the first Head of Advertising Market Strategy at Group level at Ringier. He will take up the newly created key position at the beginning of September.Bruno Blaser Blaser has worked as Publishing Director for Blick and SonntagsBlick for the past six years. Ringier newspaper director Bernhard Weissberg will take over this function ad interim....
After more than 15 years in agency work, Markus Tränkle has set up his own business. The copywriter and concept developer most recently worked as Creative Director for Publicis in Zurich. Former career stages
included ASGS/BBDO, Seiler DDB and Advico Young & Rubicam.
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Copywriter/concept developer Thomas Schöb (pictured) has been working for the Zurich advertising agency Ruf Lanz on a permanent basis since the beginning of May. Schöb has been working as a freelance concept developer for the past six years. Ruf Lanz has used his services since the agency was founded.
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Publimedia is launching a competence center for planning and handling combined print and online campaigns under the name PrintPlus. The new unit will be headed by Corinne Blaser (photo), formerly Head of Cinema and Print Sales at Cinecom.
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Suzanne Auer has been appointed Head of Communications at the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET). In August, she will replace Myriam Holzner, who went into business for herself at the beginning of May. Auer has been Head of Information for the City of Bern for two years.
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The Ringier business newspaper Cash is losing two editors. According to Journalists.ch, Pascal Schumacher, who wrote about banks and financial service providers among other things, is moving to Swiss television DRS. Stefan O. Waldvogel is leaving the "Mein Geld" section and joining Bilanz.
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The Basel local station Basilisk has poached two presenters from Radio Virus. Reto Anderegg and Philippe Gerber previously worked as a morning team for the SRG youth cable station. From the beginning of August, they will take on the same role at Basilisk.

takes maternity leave and hands over the management of the Lucerne advertising agency Fruitcake in the fall to Crisanto Farese, who is currently working for the market researcher IHA-GfK.Michèle Frey After her maternity leave, Frey wants to return to the agency as project manager....
Silvio Galbucci takes over responsibility for the two-dimensional appearance of the Globus brand as Art Director. He gives up his advertising agency Galbucci AG in Zurich.
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Raphael Wermuth takes up the newly created position of Head of Communications at Philips Switzerland. He is responsible for internal and external communications, advertising and sponsorship for the electronics group.
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Raymond Vouillamoz has resigned as program director of French-speaking Swiss television station TSR at the end of April. The 64-year-old wants to work as a filmmaker again.
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Roland Steffen will become Head of the Publishing Division at Basler Zeitung Medien. Steffen is currently Director of Publicitas Aarau/Olten Solothurn. The exact transfer date has not yet been set.
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Creative Director Sandro Giovanoli is leaving Alex Schmid Direct, but will continue to manage projects for the dialog agency depending on the order situation. Newly on board are graphic designer Matthias Kadlubsky and copywriter Martin König.
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Since the beginning of May, Almut Berger has been working as a reporter for Migros-
magazine. Over the past five years, Berger has built up the online platform Persoenlich.com. Sabine Lüthi, currently people editor at the Berner Zeitung, will also be joining Migros Magazine at the beginning of July.

will become Head of Finance, IT and Human Resources at NZZ. He will be a member of both the Group Management and the Executive Board of NZZ.Alfred Hümmerich Hümmerich was Head of Group Finance at Tamedia from 1988 to 1994. Since then he has run his own consultancy firm. In his current position, he is Head of Finance at Finanz und Wirtschaft. Hümmerich will take up his position at NZZ in May and will expand it in coordination with the gradual disposal of his previous mandates....
Publisuisse has appointed Hasan Haybat as an additional Account Manager.
committed. Haybat was previously a sales consultant for TV and cinema at
Cinecom and for poster advertising at APG.
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Communications planner Michael Knaus founds his own company. Knaus Consulting offers services for marketing and publishing. Knaus previously worked for the BSW agency Knaus & Knaus and the Beobachter's reader and advertising marketing, among others.
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Susanne Brenner is taking over media relations and communications at the General Secretariat of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. Brenner was most recently responsible for public relations projects at the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention.
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Program director Andreas Krättli is leaving the St. Gallen local radio station Toxic.fm due to differences of opinion between him and managing director Urs Siegfried.
ObituaryMichael Steltz passed away on April 19 in Neu-Isenburg at the age of 73. The former Nestlé product manager and marketing director of Vereinigte Papierwerke in Nuremberg also worked as a correspondent for Werbewoche in the 1990s. He observed the German advertising scene and was particularly well known for his reports from the advertising festival in Cannes.

Head of Consulting Christoph Bürge (pictured) is moving from Matter & Partner to Krieg Schlupp Springer & Jacobi, where he will take on the same role. He will be succeeded at Matter & Partner by Marcus Gretener, who was previously head of consulting at Ruf Lanz. ...
Christoph Beckmann is the new Head of Marketing and Product Development at the airline Swiss. He is taking on these tasks in addition to his role as Head of Corporate Development. The previous Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Oliver Evans will concentrate on the management of Swiss WorldCargo.
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At the beginning of July, Moreno Cavaliere becomes Director of the Basel branch of Publicitas and Head of the Central Region. At the same time, he will join the management of the PubliPresse holding company. Cavaliere was previously Account Director and Head of Consulting and Sales at Publimedia.
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Advertising consultant Sacha Steiner has set up his own business. Under the Punktsteiner brand, he offers his services to agencies as a troubleshooter. Steiner has worked for Advico Young & Rubicam and TBWA Switzerland, among others, as well as for Unique on the client side.
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The Audience Council of SRG Deutschschweiz has elected Roger Blum as Deputy Ombudsman for Swiss Radio and Television DRS. The Bernese professor of media studies will take up the post at the beginning of August.
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Sacha Johann and Martin Koch are joining the management team of Lucerne event agency Premotion as equal partners alongside the previous agency head Pedro Llopart. Koch previously worked for several years as advertising manager at Migros Lucerne. Johann will continue to work as Head of Marketing Private Banking at Luzerner Kantonalbank in a 50 percent position.
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Adrian Fetscherin (picture) replaces Michael Meier as presenter of the press TV program "Fussballtalk" on SF 2. Meier takes over the management of the new football magazine Rotweiss. Fetscherin also works as a commentator for "live ran" on Sat 1 Switzerland. He also runs the online service Sportradio.ch.

Daniel Flück (photo) will replace Marcel Geissbühler as Managing Director of ConRadio-TV AG, which markets the audiovisual media of the Espace Media Groupe, at the beginning of May. In recent years, Flück was commercial director of Radio Canal 3, which was taken over by Espace Media in 2004. Michael Schüpbach, Sales Manager of ConRadio-TV, will take over as Sales Manager of the Biel branch.
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Martin Hitz joins SF DRS at the beginning of May. He takes over the management of the project for an improved Internet presence for the "Tagesschau". Hitz was head of the NZZ Online editorial team from 1997 to 2001. Since then he has worked as a freelance journalist, weblogger (medienspiegel.ch) and employee of the European Journalism Observatory at the University of Lugano.
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Giuseppe Sammartano is the new Key Account Manager of the Ticino advertising combination Tre Top Ticino at Publicitas Lugano. He is responsible for German-speaking Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland. Sammartano most recently worked for regional broadcaster Tele M1. Prior to that, he managed the Olten branch of the marketer The Cover Media.
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The Zug-based event agency Vitamin D has appointed Mike Gut as Head of Major Projects. Gut previously worked as Head of Marketing at Radio Z and as Managing Director of an agency for corporate events. Most recently
he applied for the Zurich youth radio frequency with the RadioMax project.
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Viktoria Vaczi has joined the consulting team of the Adliswil-based dialog agency Fisch Meier Direkt. She previously worked for the production company United Visions in Berlin. Graphic designer Nora Cista, who previously worked independently, joined the Fisch Meier creative team in February.
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Radio 24 has hired Shiva Arbabi (pictured) as a presenter. She will be heard on the daytime program from mid-May. Arbabi previously worked for Hitradio Z and Energy Zurich, where she was made redundant in August 2004.
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In mid-May, Max Fischer will take over as head of the business section at the Aargauer Zeitung. He replaces Susanne Mühlemann, who has moved to the editorial management of SonntagsBlick. Fischer most recently worked as a communications consultant at Contract Media.
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TeleBärn weather fairy Sylvie Kempa is starting an internship at Radio ExtraBern. The former Miss Bern will spend six months training in the areas of editing and presenting.

Lukas Tenger (pictured) will take over the role of Client Service Director at Advico Young & Rubicam in the course of the summer. Tenger has spent the past six years as Unit Head at Publicis. ...
Copywriter Michael Rüegg (pictured) is going freelance. He previously worked at Jung von Matt/Limmat for two years and then at McCann Erickson for a few months.
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At the beginning of May, Frederik Stucki will take over the overall management of Radio Extra Bern and Canal 3 as the Espace Media Groupe's Head of Radio Journalism, where he was previously Program Director.
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The Factory communication group has elected Dominique Vonbun (photo) as its new president. Vonbun is Managing Director of Lacoray Promotion in Zurich. As a general contractor for communication, Factory unites seven independent companies from different disciplines under one roof.
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Marketing expert Andy Andresen and PR specialist Michèle Graf have founded the Graf Andresen communications agency in Bern-Belp. It is active in the areas of brand marketing, corporate identity, advertising and communication as well as design.
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Adrian Heuss has joined the life sciences and science communication division of the PR agency Advocacy. Heuss studied molecular biology and attended the Ringier School of Journalism. He then gained experience in science communication at Burson-Marsteller in Bern.

Hannes Britschgi (photo) is to become Program Director of Ringier TV. In this newly created position, he will lead the editors-in-chief and editorial managers of the Ringier TV programs and take a seat on the Executive Board. In addition, the former Facts editor-in-chief will become a member of the development pool, take over the management of individual projects and be responsible for internal training and further education. ...
At the beginning of May, Markus Mager will become the new program director of Radio 24, replacing Peter Brun, who is changing careers. Mager is currently a reporter at SonntagsBlick. Before that, he was deputy editor-in-chief of TeleZüri.
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Esther Pfenninger (photo) joins the Winterthur media agency Konnex as a media planner. In recent years, Pfenninger has worked both as a media planner and as an employee of publishing companies and creative agencies.
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Thomas Meier will take over as Head of Strategic and Conceptual Marketing at the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) in August. Meier is currently Director of Winterthur Tourism. He has also chaired the Swiss Cities tourism association since 2003.
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Barbara Higgs will be responsible for press and public relations at the Lucerne Festival from November. Until she takes office, Michele Paparone will head the press office of the classical music festival series. Barbara Higgs was most recently Head of Public Relations at the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
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Björn Brinkmann (pictured) is moving from Lowe Direct to OgilvyOne at the beginning of July. He will take over the position of Creative Director (CD) at Ogilvy, as he did at Lowe. Previously, this position was held ad interim by Chairman Guido Wietlisbach.
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Culture editor Nina Toepfer has left the editorial team of NZZ am Sonntag. She is moving to New York for family reasons. From there, she will continue to report on culture and society as a freelance author.
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Robert Bolleter is the new Managing Director of the Baselbieter local TV station NW1. He replaces André Funk. The former head of marketing at Publisuisse took over the position in November 2004 on a temporary basis. According to the broadcaster, important organizational changes have been initiated under Funk's leadership.

For health reasons, Jean-Philippe Rickenbach is stepping down from his position as Head of Finance, IT and Human Resources at Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the NZZ Group....
CEO Daniel A. Knöpfel is leaving the online marketplace AutoScout24.ch. Olivier Rihs, currently Chief Operating Officer of Scout24 Switzerland, will take over at the beginning of May.
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Gérald Le Meur is now responsible for the marketing of the business newspaper L'Agefi. He is taking on the task with his company Le Lab Consulting on a mandate basis.
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Client Service Director Nadine Borter has joined Contexta as a partner. The thirty-year-old has been with the Bern-based advertising agency since 1995.
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The printing division of Solothurn-based Vogt-Schild/Habegger Medien is represented in Zurich. Urs Weber is responsible for the greater Zurich-Eastern Switzerland area as a customer consultant in the sales force.
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Ingo Buse is the new Marketing and Communications Manager at Cisco Systems (Switzerland). Previously, he was Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs at Cablecom and a member of the management team at the PR agency C-Matrix Group.
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Adrian Brugger (pictured) will replace Jörg Beer as Head of Sponsorship at SF DRS at the beginning of June. Brugger is currently Head of Marketing at Beobachter magazine.

At the beginning of September, Tobias Trevisan (photo) will become Managing Director of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). His successor as Publishing Director of NZZ and NZZ am Sonntag has not yet been decided. From the end of March, Marco de Stoppani, Head of Publishing and Printing at NZZ, will take over his duties on an interim basis....
Joachim Tillessen (photo) becomes publishing and journalistic director of Coop-Presse. He will take over from Karl Vögeli, who is retiring, at the beginning of November. Tillessen is currently Head of Media at the Biel publishing house W. Gassmann.
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Felix Dammann (pictured) has been the new Creative Director of Metzgerlehner Worldwide Partners since March 1. He previously held the same position at Sulzer Sutter. At the same time, agency founder Ted Metzger is handing over the management of the company to Andreas Meier, Head of Consulting. Metzger remains Chairman of the Board and will focus on key accounts and new business.
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Samuel Knaus (pictured) is a new copywriter for Euro RSCG Zurich. The graduate in journalism and copywriting previously worked for Wirz Werbung.
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Sternstunden" on SF 1 will be hosted by Bernard Senn (pictured) from April 10. He will also continue to work as a journalist for Radio DRS 1 and 2. Senn replaces Bettina Boller and Erich Grasdorf. Boller will once again be increasingly active as a violinist, Grasdorf as a copywriter.
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The SDA subsidiary News Aktuell Schweiz has promoted Kai Gerwig (photo) to Deputy Managing Director. Kai Gerwig has been working as a consultant for PR agencies, political organizations and consulting companies for the Pressetext service since autumn 2000.
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Diego Yanez, previously deputy editor-in-chief of "Quer", is moving to "10 vor 10" in the same role. He replaces Bruno Bonometti, who is moving to the production team. Yanez has previously worked as a Middle East and parliamentary correspondent for "10 vor 10".

is strengthening its creative team with three new art directors. Robert Köhler joins the Bern-based advertising agency from Sulzer Sutter.Contexta Christian Bircher most recently worked for Büro Reinhold. Frederick Rossmann joins from JWT + Hostettler + Fabrikant....
Since the beginning of March, founder and Chairman of the
Andreas Auerbach will take over the business of Voice Publishing. The previous Managing Director, Jürg Wildberger (photo), is reducing his workload but will remain a shareholder and member of the Board of Directors and will manage a number of mandates for the company in future. In addition, he will devote more time to his
own company Media W.
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The Lucerne culture magazine has hired Beat Reichenbach (photo) as publishing director. Among other things, Reichenbach was head of
regional editions and weekly newspapers at the Neue Luzerner Zeitung before launching the wrestling newspaper "Schlussgang" last summer.
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Patricia Vanek is joining Aegis Media Group Switzerland as Head of Electronic Media & Research. She takes up the newly created position with immediate effect. Vanek most recently worked for the private broadcaster U1 TV. Prior to that, she was responsible for media research at TV 3 and Head of Planning Radio/TV at IP Multimedia (Switzerland).
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Since March 1, Iris Isenschmid (photo) has been the new Head of Corporate and Marketing Communications at Energie Wasser Luzern (EWL). Isenschmid previously worked for Wirz and Migros, among others, and as a research assistant at the Institute for Business Communication at HSW Lucerne.
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Cécile Wolfsteiner is taking over the newly created position of Product Manager Sales at Ringier-TV. She previously worked as a Sales and Account Manager for the company.
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Arno B. Gähwiler has taken over as Head of Sales at Westiform Switzerland. He has been given the rank of Vice Director at the group of companies for visual communication. Gähwiler previously worked for 15 years as a shareholder, member of the Board of Directors and member of the Executive Board at competitor Litex Neon.

Christoph Bürge (pictured) is leaving Swiss Television DRS as program developer in the "Culture and Entertainment" department this early summer after around a year He has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Prima Group in Romania by SBS Broadcasting. The group consists of the broadcaster Prima TV and two national radio stations....
At the beginning of March 2005, Andreas Florek (photo) will be joining the Facts news magazine. In future, he will be responsible for the Mittelland region as Area Sales Manager. Florek has worked for various media agencies over the past twelve years, including as Managing Director of Media Planning Switzerland.
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Managing Director Jane Borgström is leaving the media agency Carat Switzerland in the summer. She is moving to Germany for personal reasons. The new Managing Director will be Christophe Waeber (photo), currently Deputy Publishing Director and Head of Sales at the Jean Frey magazines Bilanz and Weltwoche.
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Sandro Prezzi (photo) is the new Managing Director of Mediaedge CIA Zurich. He joins at the beginning of June from Optimedia, where he has been a member of the management team responsible for strategic consulting and head of a key account unit since 2001.
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Maria Müller replaces Karin Hug as art director at the Haltestelle content design agency in Bern. Hug moved to SF DRS at the beginning of March. Müller previously worked at TeleBasel, New Identity and Ruweba Klein Kommunikation.
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Florian Birkner (pictured) has been copywriting for Advico Young & Rubicam since the beginning of March. He previously worked at Scholz & Friends in Berlin for three years. Nicolas Vontobel (previously Lesch + Frei) will join the agency as the new Art Director at the beginning of May.
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Silvan Wyser is the new Head of Marketing at GIA GraphaInformatik in Oftringen AG. Prior to his move, he was Head of Marketing & Communications at Swisscom IT Services.

At the beginning of March, Maja Traber will take over as Head of Marketing Services at Publisuisse. She will be responsible for the entire area of TV audience research as well as for the development of studies in the field of media research. Traber previously worked as a research assistant for the SRG research service. At the same time, Martin Bürki will become the new Head of Communications at Publisuisse. He was previously Head of Media Marketing/DTP Services at Publicitas Bern. ...
The software company Novell has appointed Gilles Lunzenfichter as Marketing Director.
Director for Switzerland and the Mediterranea region (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Israel). In Switzerland, the native Frenchman takes over from Patrik Hofer, who has been promoted to Director Alliance Marketing Novell EMEA.
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Eliane Birchmeier (left) and Judith Giger (right) start their own business. They have founded the agency Birchmeier und Partner AG Corporate Communications in Zug. Birchmeier has been Managing Partner and co-owner of the PR agency C-Matrix Group for the past twelve years. Giger has been responsible for public relations at Wirz Corporate for the past two years as a member of the management team.
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Leo Dietschi has been working as a PR consultant at Trimedia Communications Switzerland since the beginning of February. He joins the Zurich-based agency in the areas of corporate communications and marketing communications for IT, telecommunications and healthcare. Dietschi most recently worked as a consultant at the PR agency Dr. Peter Knobel.
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The Lucerne advertising agency Felder und Vogel has teamed up with Barbara
Buholzer has joined the team. She works in consulting and project management and is responsible for expanding the Public Relations competence. Buholzer most recently worked as a journalist for the Schweizerische Depeschenagentur.

After three years at the publishing house of the weekly newspaper (WOZ), Kilian Gasser (picture) is going into business for himself. At the beginning of March, he founds the sole proprietorship Kilian Gasser Werbeakquisition & Verlagsberatung. He continues to manage WOZ's advertising sales, but now on a mandate basis. He also takes over advertising marketing for the trade union newspaper Work. ...
On April 11, Patrick Zanello (photo) will take over as Head of Marketing and Advertising at Ringier Romandie.
Zanello is currently Head of Marketing at the business press publisher Agefi.
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Zogg Kettiger Gasser is looking for a new Creative Director. Co-owner Heiner U. Zogg (pictured) is stepping down from his position. However, he will be available to the Zurich agency as "Creative Anchorman" if required.
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Moritz Wuttke will join the PubliGroupe Group Management Board as Director of Business Development on March 1. Wuttke has been working for the advertising group since 1995 and has been involved in setting up a Business Development staff department since 2002.
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Ole Rauch (photo) is to become Head of Sales & Marketing B2C at SevenOne Media Switzerland. He will take over responsibility for audience and user marketing at the beginning of March from Silke Kellner, who is taking a career break. Previously, Rauch was Product Manager Integrated Brand Solutions.
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Alexander Fleischer is the new President of the HarbourClub. He succeeds Walter Vaterlaus , who previously headed the association for corporate communications. Fleischer is Head of Marketing & Communications at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

At the beginning of March, Irmtraud Oelschläger moves from IHA-GfK to the Institute for Accompanying and Social Research Zurich (IBSF). She takes over from Managing Director Max Müller as Head of Communications and Media Research. Müller will remain responsible for market research. ...
Trimedia Geneva is now headed by Alexandra Rys. Rys was most recently a partner at Rochat & Partners and previously deputy director of CIPR Communications. She is a member of the Geneva Cantonal Council for the CVP.
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Judith Bizozzero (pictured) will take over the management of the newly formed "creative pool" in the Ringier Group's Magazines division at the beginning of March. The pool is responsible for sponsoring and cooperations as well as for the search for new distribution channels, in particular for Tele, Glückspost and Bolero. Bizozzero is currently Area Sales Manager for the Ringier-
Magazines and cash.
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Urs Helbling is to become a new member of the editorial board and deputy editor-in-chief at the Aargauer Zeitung. He will take over his duties as head of news and editor on June 1, 2005.
Helbling is currently Head of News and a member of the extended
Editorial director at Blick.
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The Swiss lifestyle magazine Faces has hired Alex Wiederin as Creative Director (CD). The Austrian began his career as CD at Tempo magazine before emigrating to the USA and founding the agency Büro New York. Wiederin is co-founder and CD of the fashion bible Another Magazine and CD of Glamour Italia. He will continue these two tasks alongside his work for Faces.

Simone Keller (photo), editor of Werbewoche for many years, moved to Schweizer Touristik at the beginning of February, where she has joined the five-strong editorial team. The trade magazine for the Swiss travel and tourism industry is published by Tourism Trend Media GmbH.
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Jean-Orphée Reuter (pictured) is replacing Roger Knabenhans as publishing director of the TV magazine TV-Star. It is not yet clear when he will take up the new position. Reuter was Head of Publishing at Glückspost until last November and then Head of Sponsoring/Cooperations at Ringier's magazine division.
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Another departure at Radio 24: After program director Peter Brun, presenter Vladi Barrosa has also resigned from his position with immediate effect. He will be replaced by Marc Jäggi, who has been working as a presenter for Radio 24 for around five years.
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Raoul Gerber took on an additional role at the beginning of the year: The Managing Director of the Lausanne branch of IP Multimedia (Switzerland) is now also Deputy Sales Director of the advertising time marketer. He will therefore also be working more frequently at the headquarters in Küsnacht.
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Main shareholder Ursin Mirer is handing over his position as CEO of the publishing company The Guide Company to Christian-André Oustin. In future, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, he will oversee the strategic direction of the company and concentrate on development tasks. Oustin was most recently Marketing Director of Hotelconsult César Ritz Colleges AG.
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From the beginning of March, Tina Biedermann (photo) will present the programs "ZüriNews" and "ZüriInfo" on TeleZüri. She will also continue to work part-time as a video journalist for the station. Biedermann replaces Ivana Imoli, who is moving to the new people program on SF DRS.
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Nadja Reicht joined the Swiss Public Relations Institute (SPRI) at the end of January. She is responsible for overall marketing and is also in charge of organizing the basic courses and special events.

Didier Zanone Zanone has been responsible for strategic planning and the coordination of assignments at the Geneva-based advertising agency Label Communication since October.Didier Zanone Zanone managed the Transphère agency in Geneva for 15 years. Pierre-André Bonjour (photo) joins Label as a consultant and brand strategist. He was most recently a partner in the branding agency The Creative Factory. ...
Thomas Städeli (photo) will become Managing Director at Wirz Werbung in the middle of the year. He joins from Advico Young & Rubicam, where he is currently
consulting manager and member of the management board. At the same time as Städeli joins Wirz, Client Service Director Manfred Hager is leaving the agency to take on a new professional challenge.
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Maurice A. Nyffeler (picture) joins Publimedia Webadvertising as Senior Account Manager on February 14. Nyffeler has worked for IP Multimedia (Switzerland) for the past three years as Deputy Sales Director of the Suisse romande and International office.
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Editor-in-chief Beat Glogger is leaving Kommunalmagazin at the end of April 2005, having managed the trade journal published by FachMediaCom for a good two years.
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Markus Will will take over from Sari Simola as head of the magazine reader market at Tamedia at the beginning of February. Simola, who has held the position since fall 2003 and was previously Publishing Director of Facts, is leaving the Zurich-based media group. Will most recently held the same position at Ringier.

The management of Springer Switzerland has appointed Urs Schnider (photo) from managing editor to editor-in-chief of Media Trend Journal at the beginning of 2005. The 40-year-old has been working as an editor at the media trade journal since the beginning of 2000. In May 2004, following Pierre C. Meier's move to the editorial office of Werbewoche, he was promoted to managing editor of Media Trend Journal....
Tibère Adler will become the new CEO of Edipresse Groupe in February.
He takes over from Pierre Lamunière, who is retiring from operational management. In addition to his new role, Adler will also remain CEO of Edipresse Switzerland. Chief Operating Officer Jean-Claude Marchand is also stepping down from his position.
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At the end of January, Managing Director Consulting Thomas Löw (photo) is leaving the Zurich agency Krieg Schlupp Springer & Jacoby (KSSJ). He will take on the same role at Atletico International in Barcelona, where he will also become a partner. Until further notice, Tanya Barlogis will head the KSSJ consultancy.
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Urs Rueb and Urs Renner are leaving the media agency Mediaedge CIA (MEC). The former Managing Director of MEC Bern, Renner, and the Managing Director of Zurich, Rueb, have made their decision independently of each other.
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Rima Badeen will take over from Amos Winteler as editor-in-chief of the local station Radio Basel 1 at the beginning of March. The current deputy editor-in-chief Badeen will be supported by Benjamin Schmid - currently head of sports at the station - as her deputy.
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As of January 17, André Reichenbach (photo) will take over from Tony Mandingorra as Key Account Manager in e-Advertising Sales. He previously worked in the Weltwoche sales team.

The Swiss Public Relations Institute (SPRI) is looking for a new director. Cyril Meier (photo) resigned at the end of 2004. The definitive successor is to be appointed in the first quarter of 2005....
Béatrice Wertli is leaving her post as Head of Communications at CVP Switzerland. At the beginning of April, she will take over as Head of Internal Communications at Swiss Post.
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Gabriella Zinke has been the new Head of Communications at the environmental protection organization WWF Switzerland since the beginning of December. She joins the Executive Board. Zinke most recently held the same position at Migros subsidiary Limmatdruck.
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Fisch Meier Direkt is strengthening its creative team with copywriter/concept developer Simone Paulzen and AD Michael Gallmann. Denise Vonlanthen, formerly of Grey Worldwide, and Christian Staub from Scotti have joined the consultancy team.
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In February, Rolf Kälin (photo) joins the Baden-based communications agency Mach AG as CD and member of the management board. Kälin was previously AD at Wirz Werbung. At the same time, AD and co-owner Roman Hofer is leaving Mach AG.
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After five and a half years in office, program director Peter Brun is leaving the Zurich local station Radio 24 due to differences of opinion about the strategic direction.

In mid-February, Caroline Thoma (pictured) will succeed Sandra Geiger as publishing director of SonntagsZeitung. Thoma headed the publishing house of the women's magazine Annabelle.... from 1998 to the end of 2003.
Marco Ratschiller (picture) will become the new Editor-in-Chief of Nebelspalter at the beginning of January. The previous incumbent, Hans Suter, will in future concentrate on his role as Editor-in-Chief of the SME magazine, which is published by the same publishing house.
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In mid-January, Paolo Placa will join AZ-Verlag as advertising manager Mittelland Zeitung. He succeeds Diego Quintarelli, who moved to SonntagsZeitung in the middle of the year. Paolo Placa is currently Advertising Manager at Reader's Digest.
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Christine Scheucher is stepping down as Head of Sales Service Cinema/TV/Print at marketer Cinecom. She is succeeded by Karin Rickenmann (Fig.), who also joins the management board. She was previously Product Manager for special advertising formats on TV at Cinecom.
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Peter Raissig is the new Sales Manager at MS Mail Service in St. Gallen. He was most recently Managing Director at the direct marketing agency Tequila eFactory.
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Susanne Müller-Zantop will become Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at recruiter Adecco. Müller-Zantop most recently headed Investor and Analyst Relations at Siemens Mobile.
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At the beginning of December, Samia Montaque-Zeroual joins the team at cross-media marketing agency A-tension as a marketing assistant. She worked at the agency Universal McCann for the past three years.

will be the new media officer at health insurer Visana. She replaces Jean-Blaise Defago, who is moving to the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport as Head of Communications.Mirjam Müller The interpreter and PR specialist was most recently Head of Communications at the Swiss Pharmacists' Association. She will take up her post in mid-March....
The Basel-based IT service provider Trivadis has appointed Gabriela Bleuler as Unit Manager Marketing Communication. She is to implement the strategic adjustments in marketing initiated by Trivadis and position Trivadis as an IT solution provider in Switzerland and Germany. She took up the position at the beginning of November. Prior to this, Gabriela Bleuler was responsible for marketing at business and application service provider Boss Lab for three years.
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Katharina Reichert is the new art director of Kriens-based bolzern.com. Reichert was most recently unit manager at McCann Erickson in Nuremberg. She replaces the previous AD Kim Sokola, who is completing two years of additional training.
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Martin Kurzbein takes over the art direction of Saisonküche at the beginning of March 2005. Kurzbein has been working as an art director at the Inform communications agency in Zurich since November 2001. He previously held the same position at Prime Communications.
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From February 1, 39-year-old journalist Reinhard Kronenberg will be the new head of the Migros Media online editorial team. He succeeds Marlise Schori, who is retiring at the end of 2005. Kronenberg previously worked as a news and business editor for SonntagsZeitung and SonntagsBlick, among others. He then worked for Cash-TV and SF DRS. He gained online experience as managing director of the Internet company CarWinner.ch.

The cable network group Cablecom has appointed Stephen Wright as Director of Corporate Development. He joins the Executive Board. Wright has worked for Sunrise for the past six years. ...
Stefan Aeschimann will take up the newly created post of Head of Corporate Public Affairs at Aare-Tessin Ltd. for Electricity (Atel) on December 1. He has been Head of Political Issue Management at Zurich Airport Ltd since 2003.
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Stefan Züger, Head of PR/Communications, is leaving Scout24 Switzerland at the end of November. His area of responsibility will then be merged with the Business Development and Marketing divisions and managed by their previous head, Patrick C. Price.
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Katja Biffiger leaves the media marketer after four years
Cinecom at the beginning of December. She will be succeeded as Print Consultant by Andrea Blatter. In future, she will be responsible for the cinema magazine Close-up and the Teleclub magazine.
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Jeannine Jäger joined the Konnex team as a media planner on November 1, 2004. For the last four years she was
works as a media planner at the media agency mm+b.
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A few months after taking up his post as publishing director of TR7, Roger Knabenhans is leaving the program magazine of Jean Frey AG. The former head of the NZZ classifieds market took over as publishing director of TR7 in September.
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From the beginning of 2005, Christoph Voser (picture) will head the sales team at Radio Basel 1 Werbe AG. He replaces Martin Gisin, who is leaving the company. Voser has been responsible for marketing in Switzerland at the German Radio Regenbogen for the past 12 years.

Charles Naylor is to become the new Head of Corporate Communications at Credit Suisse Group. From the beginning of December, he will replace Karin Rhomberg at the major bank, who left to set up her own business in November. Naylor was most recently Group Director of Corporate Affairs at the energy and services group Centrica in London. ...
Urs Freudiger has been Head of Marketing and a member of the Executive Board at Globus department stores since November. He was previously Head of Marketing Communications at the mobile communications group Diax and played a key role in setting up the Qualiflyer system at Swissair.
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Kathy Horisberger is to become the new editor-in-chief of the Coop-Zeitung. She previously acted as deputy editor-in-chief to Dominic Geisseler, who is moving to the TV program guide Tele at the beginning of 2005.
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Karl Heinz Nuber (photo) is the new editor-in-chief of the business magazine KMU Business. He has taken on the position on a mandate basis. He will also remain active as a freelance business journalist specializing in the luxury goods industry. Nuber takes over from Patrick Senn.
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The former Prognos managing director Gustav Greve has founded Gustav Greve Consulting AG in Basel. It advises owner-managed service and industrial companies. Greve was Managing Director of the Basel-based research institute Prognos from 2001 to the end of 2003.

is the new Creative Director (CD) and Deputy Managing Director of the Zurich advertising agency Scotti. Schaub worked for cR Seiler DDB in Basel for ten years until 2001, from 1999 as CD.
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Matthias Felder has joined the team at the Lucerne-based advertising agency Kobalt. The qualified communications manager will act as consultant and head of strategy/concept with immediate effect. Felder was previously Managing Director of the advertising agency Suxess. Nicole Koller is also new at Kobalt. The budding marketing communications planner has been strengthening and supporting the consultancy team and management since September.
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At the beginning of January 2005, Martin Denecke (photo) takes over responsibility as Agency Head and Creative Director (CD) at Scholz & Friends Zurich. At the same time, he joins the agency's Board of Directors and takes over from Diana Strebel, who wants to pursue a new career direction. Denecke was CEO of Lowe GGK until the end of 2000. He then worked as a creative consultant. Nicolas Edelmann joined Scholz & Friends at the beginning of November. The client consultant also previously worked at Lowe.
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Thorsten Stecher is leaving Weltwoche at the end of December after more than five years. He is moving to the culture department of Swiss television, where he will be responsible for the program "Kulturplatz" from 10 January.
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The online marketer Publicitas Webservices is strengthening its sales and product management. Marc Lottenbach (photo) joins the team from SevenOne Media. He will be responsible for customer acquisition and support as well as all areas of online marketing. Antonio Baglivo is taking over Product Management from Philipp Scheidegger, who is moving to the role of Product & Business Development Manager.

At the beginning of November, copywriter Martin Stulz (photo) joins the creative team at advertising agency Advico Young & Rubicam (AY&R), followed by art director Christian Bobst in February. Martin Stulz has worked at Lowe for the last two years and previously at Weber Hodel Schmid, Euro RSCG and Publicis. Christian Bobst previously worked for AY&R before moving to Jung von Matt/Spree in Germany. He has just been accepted into the Art Directors Club Switzerland.
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In February 2005, Rolf Suter takes over the management of the media agency m&m in Glattbrugg. He replaces Wolfgang Mecklenburg
who was previously responsible for the overall management of the two agencies m&m and mm&b in Switzerland. In future, Mecklenburg will concentrate on the European business of the parent holding company m&m media - including in Stuttgart, Paris and Vienna. Claudia Mühlebach's tasks and area of responsibility at mm&b will remain unchanged in the new constellation.
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The former publishing director of the Beobachter, Peter Kümmerli (photo), is the new publishing director of Personalvorsorge und Sozialversicherung (VPS). Kümmerli takes over from Cornelia Maggi-Wirz, who built up and expanded the publishing house over 17 years, at the beginning of November. In future, she will devote herself to strategic tasks on the Board of Directors and Board Committee.
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Andreas C. Englert is stepping down as deputy editor-in-chief of Schweizer Illustrierte (SI). As of February 1, 2005, he will take on a writing position at Blick, but will continue to work as an author for SI on a 20 percent basis.
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Cesare Patella becomes Project Manager in the Media & Research department of Publimedia. He will take over a newly created project manager position at the beginning of April 2005. Patella currently works for Jean Frey as Head of Marketing/Media/Ad Support.

becomes the new Vice President Marketing at Swiss. He replaces Markus Rege, who is leaving the company at the beginning of November.Frank Maier Maier was most recently responsible for business and private customer communications at Lufthansa....
Patrick Kaiser (photo) is taking over as Head of Corporate Communications at construction machinery manufacturer Hilti. He replaces Heinz Müller at the beginning of December, who is moving to a Zurich-based management recruitment company as a consultant. Kaiser most recently worked as an independent communications consultant.
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Head of Press Urs Peter Stebler is leaving the Berne-based energy group BKW FMB. He will be succeeded by Antonio Sommavilla on March 1, 2005. In the meantime, the BKW media office will be managed by deputy press officer Sebastian Vogler. Antonio Sommavilla is currently Deputy Managing Director of the Dr. Schenker Communications agency in Berne.
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The new Tele editor-in-chief is Dominic Geisseler (photo). He replaces Stephan Sutter, who has held the post on an interim basis since the departure of Klaus Kriesel at the beginning of April. Sutter moved to Schweizer Illustrierte in January 2005 as a member of the editorial team. Geisseler is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Coopzeitung.
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Markus Gisler, Co-Editor-in-Chief for the general sections of the Aargauer Zeitung (AZ) and Mittelland Zeitung (MZ), is leaving the company. Peter Buri, Co-Editor-in-Chief Aargau/Regions, will take over overall responsibility for the AZ editorial team.
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Former Chief Technology Officer Jürg Stuker (photo) is to become CEO of web service provider Namics. Marcel Albertin becomes the new CTO; Roland Schlüchter takes over responsibility for the Swiss business.

is to become the new Head of Corporate Communications at the Atel electricity group. In mid-November, he will take over from Rolf Schmid, who is joining the management and communications consultancy Teag Advisors as a partner.Martin Bahnmüller Bahnmüller is currently Head of Communications for the Transport Revenue division at the technology group Ascom....
The former "10vor10" presenter Alenka Ambroz will be communicating for Novartis in future. She will take over the newly created position of Head Media Relation Switzerland at the beginning of November. Bruno Hofer remains media spokesman.
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Hélène Sonderegger is the new Head of Outdoor at Aegis Media. Sonderegger previously worked for Universal McCann, Optimedia and Aebi/BBDO, among others.
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Andreas Baur has been responsible for advertising management and sales at Gruner + Jahr Switzerland since mid-September. He was previously in charge of advertising sales for the Ringier program guide Tele. Baur replaces Carole Pochon, who has left the company.
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CEO Andreas Göldi is leaving the web services provider Namics. He has been appointed to the Namics parent company PubliGroupe. Göldi retains his seat on the Namics Board of Directors. His successor is still open.
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Klaus Vieli is handing over the editorship of the SF DRS news magazine "10vor10". Interim head of news Jürg Lehmann takes over the management of the program.

The Fribourg daily newspaper La Liberté is getting a new editor-in-chief. Louis Ruffieux will take over from Roger de Diesbach at the beginning of December. De Diesbach will continue to write for La Liberté with a reduced workload. Ruffieux has been responsible for cantonal politics at the newspaper since 1991. ...
Claudia Rawer is the new editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine A. Vogels Gesundheits-Nachrichten (GN). The psychologist with a doctorate in biology took over the helm of the naturopathy magazine with the September issue. She replaces Ingrid Zehnder, who is retiring.
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At the beginning of November, Roberto Blank joins Mittelland Zeitung/Aargauer Zeitung as Key Account Manager. Blank was most recently responsible for the NZZ Executive executive market at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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Hewlett-Packard Switzerland has appointed Beat Welte as Head of Public Affairs. From the beginning of November, he will be responsible for all internal and external communications. Welte previously worked as a publicist for various media.
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Tobias Thut has been the new Head of Services and Media Spokesperson at Swiss Youth Hostels since the beginning of October. Thut replaces Barbara Rutschi, who is taking on a new challenge. He previously worked for the Grisons-based consultancy Grischconsulta.
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In November, Jan Krohn joins the creative team at Lowe, Zurich, as Senior Copywriter. Krohn most recently worked at Grey.
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Yasmine Suter has joined the consultancy team at communications agency Richterich & Partner in Zollikon. The lawyer and qualified marketing planner most recently worked for Farner PR for four years.
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Sabine Richard is moving to the Basel healthcare agency Puls in mid-October. The trained PR specialist will take over Nicole Trottmann's responsibilities as Communication Manager.

Art director Denis Schwarz and copywriter Michael Rüegg are joining the advertising agency McCann Erickson. Schwarz spent the last eight years at Advico Young & Rubicam, while Rüegg joins McCann from Jung von Matt/Limmat. ...
The Basel-based advertising agency Schneider Berthoud has expanded its consultancy with Reto Meyer. He was most recently Head of Communications at Tiscali Switzerland. Art Director Gil Marzo, who most recently worked at Publicis in Zurich, is a new addition to the creative team.
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After a year as a one-man operation, the Zurich PR agency Frey Communications is expanding. Dirtje Hüttmann comes on board for the events division. Udo Künz contributes his banking and insurance know-how. Gabi Müller is at his disposal as PR assistant. Beatrice Herrmann strengthens the agency in the area of tourism and Urs Heiniger contributes his advertising experience.
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The Swiss e-mail marketing specialist Mailprofiler has a new CEO: Michael Kleindl (photo) will take over responsibility for the company's international expansion at the beginning of October. Kleindl was CEO of the European online marketer Adlink until mid-2003. The previous Managing Director and co-founder Christoph Morach will continue to manage the business of Mailprofiler Switzerland.
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Katia Berger is taking over as editor-in-chief of the French-speaking Swiss women's magazine Profil Femme. The cultural journalist and translator will succeed Laurence Desbordes, who moved to Edelweiss as editor-in-chief in September.
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At the beginning of 2005, Patrick Mäder will take over from Christoph Graf as editor-in-chief of the Ringier and AZ Media Group sports magazine. Mäder is currently head of the sports department at the news magazine Facts.
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Bruno Affentranger is to become the second deputy editor-in-chief of Cash alongside Beat Römer. Affentranger has been a member of the editorial team at the business magazine Bilanz since April 2003.
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The Federal Council has elected the Director of the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Marc Furrer (photo), as the new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The previous Chairman, Fulvio Caccia, is stepping down at the end of the year.

The Geneva daily newspaper Le Temps is losing its publishing director Eric Hoesli. The Board of Directors intends to find his successor internally with Editor-in-Chief Jean-Jacques Roth and Commercial Director Valérie Boagno. The newspaper's management team will also include Pierre Veya as deputy editor-in-chief and Anne Bobillo as
Chief Financial Officer and Administrative Manager.
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Guido Eberhard is taking over as Head of Reader Marketing and Sales at Espace Media Groupe's specialist media division "Mobil". He replaces publishing director Roselien Huisman at the beginning of October, who had taken on the role ad interim in recent months. Eberhard was previously Head of Subscription Marketing at Neue
Luzerner Zeitung.
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Loredana Andreoli (picture) is the new Corporate Marketing Manager at Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. She succeeds Roberto Arias. Andreoli was most recently Senior Brand & Export Manager for the Zug-based food group
Oswald is active.
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Marco Greiner and Adrian Heuss join the communications agency Burson-Marsteller. Consultant Marco Greiner supports the Zurich office in the area of
Public Affairs. Most recently, he worked at Int/ext Communications in Basel. Adrian Heuss joins the team as a research assistant.
life sciences team at Burson-Marsteller in Berne. He has written as a science journalist for the Basler Zeitung and the Tages-Anzeiger, among others.
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Marc Läuffer will be joining the Facts sales team at the beginning of January 2005. The current Key Account Manager of Mittelland Zeitung will be responsible for the Mittelland region as Area Sales Manager at Facts. He replaces Ueli Gertsch, who is moving to the advertising sales department of Tamedia's sister title Schweizer Familie.

In October, Urs Schrepfer becomes the new Creative Director (CD) and member of the management team at Advico Young & Rubicam (AY&R). Together with CD Daniel Comte, he will lead the creative teams of the advertising agency in Zurich-Gockhausen. Schrepfer already worked for AY&R from 1992 to mid-2002, first as a concept developer/ copywriter and then as CD. For the last few years he was managing CD at Jung von Matt/ Limmat. ...
The Lausanne-based advertising agency Pulsion is expanding its business area. It now also offers marketing consulting and analysis. For these tasks, it has strengthened its team with Gérard Colangelo. Colangelo has been working in sales, marketing and media consulting for more than 15 years.
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Marlen Gassler joined TBS Identity's project management department as a permanent employee at the beginning of September. She had already been working as a freelancer for the Zurich agency since December 2003. Prior to that, the communications consultant worked for more than ten years for national and international clients in various Swiss advertising agencies.
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Professor Jacqueline Otten is the new Head of the Department of Design at the University of Art and Design Zurich (HGK Zurich). Born in the Netherlands, she succeeds Urs Fanger, who has held the post since 1998. Jacqueline Otten most recently held a professorship for Trends and the Public at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg.
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Sandra Kilchmann is taking over operational responsibility for the Central Switzerland leisure magazine Insider as Product Manager. She will take over from Ronnie Hürlimann at the beginning of October. Sandra Kilchmann most recently worked as a Junior Account Manager at Publimedia. Ronnie Hürlimann will remain Managing Director of Insider Verlag AG. However, his main focus will be on new publishing projects and cross-group tasks.
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Daniela Biedermann is leaving SF DRS at the end of the year. Biedermann has hosted the health program "Puls" on SF 1 since 2001 and her successor has not yet been appointed. By contrast, Andrea Jansen is joining SF DRS. She will host the program "MusicStar - Die Woche", which will report on the goings-on behind the scenes of the casting show from January to March. Andrea Jansen has been the presenter of the game show "Joya rennt" on Sat 1 Switzerland since the end of last year.

Mark Stahel is to join GGK Zurich at the beginning of January 2005. According to a press release, he will become the advertising agency's third partner alongside Hermann Strittmatter and Fredy Weisser. Stahel was most recently Creative Director of Lowe in Zurich. He announced his resignation at the end of April to take some time out. ...
The Lucerne-based advertising agency Bossard Kommunikation has strengthened its consulting team with Olivia Lombris. As a marketing communications planner, she has been supporting the two consultants Ruedi and Michael Bossard since the beginning of September. Lombris previously worked as a marketing assistant at Mobility Carsharing Switzerland and as a PR assistant at the PR agency Dr. Peter P. Knobel AG.
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Thomas Maus has acquired a stake in the communications agency Fiechter Demirci. The German national, who lives in Switzerland, previously worked as an independent management consultant specializing in marketing and communications. In future, the Heerbrugg agency will operate under the name Fiechter Demirci Maus & Mann (FDM&M). At the same time, it is introducing a new unit dedicated to the development and improvement of communication strategies. Michael Jäger and the German expert for online market research Holger Lütters will take over the management.
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The SRG youth channel Virus is expanding its music editorial team from two to three people. The previous music editor Predrag Miskovic is leaving the station. He is moving to DRS 3 in the same function. Marco Liembd and Tamara Steffen, who was already a member of the Virus founding team, are joining the music editorial team. Liembd previously worked as head of music at the Lucerne alternative station Radio 3fach.
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Martin Schweikert is the new Head of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the Farner PR agency. He will continue to expand the division, according to a press release. Martin Schweikert was previously a member of the management team at the Zurich agency L&W Marcom, which specializes in ICT.

Claudia Kraaz will take over as Head of Corporate Communications at the Vontobel banking group at the beginning of December. She replaces Elisabeth Meyerhans Sarasin, who is moving to the Federal Department of Finance as Head of Communications. Kraaz was most recently Managing Director and Head of Public Relations at the CS Group....
Heinz Eckert is to become editor-in-chief of the magazine Swiss Review, which is published by the Organization of the Swiss Abroad (OSA). He will take over from Gabrielle Keller, who is moving to the Neue Zuger Zeitung, at the beginning of October.
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Marco Gregori has taken over as editor-in-chief of the Geneva daily newspaper Le Courrier with immediate effect. He replaces Manuel Grandjean, who announced his resignation at the end of April. Gregori has been with the newspaper since 1995.
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Zurich-based publishing house Jean Frey has appointed Peter Hert as Head of Sales and Logistics. He will also join the Executive Board. Hert currently works as Head of Reader Market at Tamedia.
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Gregor Doser will join Mediaedge-CIA in Zurich as the new Head of Electronic Media at the beginning of December. Doser currently heads the
Marketing services at SRG marketer Publisuisse.
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Tiziano Obrecht will take over responsibility for the online media planning tool Planad at marketer Adlink Internet Media at the beginning of December. Obrecht is currently Senior Account Manager at Publimedia Webadvertising.
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The Forum Fribourg exhibition and conference center has a new director in Markus Reck. On October 18, he will take over from Claude Membrez, who is moving to Palexpo in Geneva as General Director.

At the beginning of October, Jürg Dinner will take over as Head of Corporate Communications at the airline Swiss. He replaces Peter Marthaler, who has held this position since September 2002. Jürg Dinner has been Head of Corporate Communications for Coca-Cola Switzerland for two years.
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Consultants Clemens Gähwiler, Simone Lisa Ramser and Claudia Rheinboldt have joined the Corporate & Financial Communications department of PR agency Burson-Marsteller Switzerland (B-M). Gähwiler previously worked as PR Editor for Balanx Corporate Counsel & Communications in Zurich. Ramser previously worked as a PR consultant and translator at the Zurich-based Grey subsidiary Musqueteers, and Rheinboldt previously worked as a
PR specialist at Clariden Bank.
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Jean-Michel Bonvin is the new Head of Outdoor Media at Mediaedge CIA in Zurich. He is moving from Aegis Media Central Services to his new employer at the beginning of December.
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Peter Röthlisberger is taking over as head of the business department at Schweizer Illustrierte (SI). He replaces Susanne Rohmund, who is moving to the German trade union IG Metall.
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Weltwoche has signed up three new writers. Daniel
Amman replaces Alain Zucker as Head of the Economics department. Amman currently holds the same position at Facts. Zucker is going to America as a correspondent. The new Germany correspondent will be Richard Herzinger, who writes for Die Zeit. Constantin Seibt has been hired as a columnist.
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Alain Egli joins the business department of the news magazine Facts. Egli previously worked for the industry service Persoenlich.com.

The Zurich-based media company Tamedia has appointed Uli Rubner as Head of the Magazines division. In this function, she will be a member of the Management Board. Uli Rubner will take up her position on January 3, 2005. Until then, the division will continue to be managed by Group CEO Martin Kall....
Gabrielle Keller takes over as editor-in-chief of the Neue Zuger Zeitung at the beginning of November. She replaces Werner Steinmann at the head of the newspaper. Steinmann will become head of the market/economy department at the parent title Neue Luzerner Zeitung. Gabrielle Keller is currently working for the Swiss Abroad
Organization (OSA) in Berne as Deputy Director.
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Geneva-based private radio station One FM has appointed Jean-Charles Zufferey as its new editor-in-chief. He succeeds Michel Chevrolet, who took over as editor-in-chief of the local TV station Léman Bleu at the end of April.
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At the beginning of October, Michael Düringer joins the
Zurich agency IR Firm. Düringer was most recently responsible for investor relations and corporate communications at the Phonak Group for six years.
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Copywriter Roger Hausmann and copywriter Stephanie Hugentobler have formed a partnership under the name Text hoch zwei. Both will remain self-employed. Roger Hausmann is based in Winterthur with his sole proprietorship Schreibwerkstatt, Stephanie Hugentobler with "...Text" in Elgg.
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The Zurich web agency Update has expanded its team with Heidi Frei
strengthened. She has been working as Project Manager and Head of Administration since July. The qualified publishing manager was most recently Head of Loyalty and Rewards at Swisscard AECS.

Kurt Hutab took over as publisher of the free weekly Winterthurer Zeitung at the beginning of August. Hutab manages the operational business in addition to his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the paper. ...
After eight years, Daniel Kraft is leaving Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux. He is moving to the branding and corporate identity agency Scholtysik Niederberger in Zurich as project manager and senior designer.
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Cornelia Wenk joined Euro RSCG Zurich as Junior Art Director on July 12. Wenk spent the last few years working at Publicis.
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The two art directors Stephanie Wespi-Haldimann, previously with MetaDesign and Impuls@TBWA, and Anja Ginter, previously with Schneider Berthoud, as well as the consultant Jasmine Gasser are new to the Basel advertising agency Kreisvier Communications.
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visuelt GmbH in Lucerne commenced operations at the beginning of August. The owner and managing director is Ueli Kürschner, who previously worked as an art director at the A4 advertising agency in Rotkreuz ZG. visuelt is a full-service company in the field of advertising and graphics.
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Since the beginning of June, Andrea Sonnenmoser has been working as a project manager/junior consultant at int/ext Communications, which specializes in internal and external communications.
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The Flashlight Event Innovations agency has expanded its team. Rolf Lanz is the new Key Account Manager, while Giuseppe Secreti will take over as Sales Manager from September 1. The new division manager for trade fair projects is Andy Klein.
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Marketing planner Sevinc Tekkilic is the new Head of Marketing Services at art insurer Axa Art in Glattbrugg.

Patrick Lienert is to become the new Creative Director and Partner of the Bern-based advertising agency Lang Gysi Knoll. Lienert, who most recently worked as CD for Seiler Zurich, will take up the position at the beginning of September. At the same time, LGK establishes a branch office in Zurich. It will be managed in an initial phase by
Lienert managed.
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Anita Haberthür joined Wirz Werbung at the beginning of July as consulting group manager. Most recently, she worked at Matter & Partner as Head of Consulting and a member of the Executive Board.
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Publishing Director Sandra Geiger is leaving the SonntagsZeitung. She is taking up the same position at the business magazine Bilanz and will also become a member of the Executive Board of Jean Frey AG. Geiger replaces Uli Rubner, the previous publishing director of Bilanz and Weltwoche. The publishing house of Weltwoche will be managed by Jean Frey CEO Filippo Leutenegger until a definitive appointment is made.
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The publishing director of the fashion and lifestyle magazine Bolero, Martina Allenspach, is leaving Ringier Verlag at the end of November for personal reasons. Her successor has not yet been named.
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Marco Stettler has been Head of Classifieds at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) since July. He replaces Roger Knabenhans, who is moving to the program guide TR7 as Publishing Director in September. Marco Stettler previously worked as Managing Director at Publicitas Swiss Press in Zurich.
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Editor-in-chief Beni Leoni is leaving the private broadcaster U1 TV Station. He justified his resignation with differing views on the future program strategy. The terms of his departure have not yet been clarified.
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The IAA Young Chapter has a new president. Gabriele Spiller (Publisuisse) is taking over from Katja Barlogis, who is stepping down from the Board. Pascal Staub (m.a.d.) will become Vice President of the Young Chapter. Beat Fingerhut (Ikea) and Tamara Schmid (IP Multimedia) are new members of the event team. Gabriella Skala (Skala Communications) will take over the finance/controlling area.

At the beginning of July, Guye Benker art director Barbara Strahm and copywriter Daniel Müller opened their own advertising agency. Strahm Müller Werbung is based in Zurich's Kreis 5 district. The two founders have been working as a team for seven years, first at Wirz Werbeberatung and from August 2001 at Guye Benker....
The C-Matrix Group is expanding its management team. Ingo Buse will join the PR agency in Baar as Account Director in mid-August. Buse is currently a partner in the Bern-based consulting firm Lexsys AG, which specializes in regulatory and strategic issues in the telecommunications and CATV market.
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Grey Zurich expands its consultancy. Nicole Bretscher-Boss joins the advertising agency as Account Director. She previously worked for Ruf Lanz, Honegger von Matt and Publicis, among others.
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Fredy Pillinger is the new sales manager of the weekly magazine Anzeiger in Eastern Switzerland. He took up his position at the free publication of the St. Galler Tagblatt on July 1. Pillinger previously held the same position as well as training the sales team at Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG) Ostschweiz. He also teaches at the BVS St. Gallen training center.
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Regula Bochsler will take over as head of the "Kultur aktuell" editorial team at Schweizer Fernsehen DRS in the course of the summer. She replaces the interim head Damian Schnyder. Bochsler has worked for SF DRS since 1988. She is currently a producer in the "Kultur aktuell" editorial team.
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At the beginning of July, Thomas C. Maurer took over as Chairman of the Professional Register Commission of the Swiss Public Relations Association (SPRG). He replaces Peter Zoebeli, who has held this office for the past six years. Maurer is the founder and owner of the agency Thomas C. Maurer & Partner in Bern.
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Marcel Trachsel, Managing Partner of Int/ext Communications in Basel, has been appointed to the board of the PR Organization International (PROI). He was elected by the General Assembly as one of two Vice Presidents Europe.

takes over as head of the "Communication and Marketing" department at Schweizer Radio DRS. She replaces Regula Weyermann, who left SR DRS in mid-May.Ariane Ehrat takes over as head of the "Communications and Marketing" department at Schweizer Radio DRS. She replaces Regula Weyermann, who left SR DRS in mid-May. Ehrat was previously Head of Corporate Communications for Alpenarena.ch of the tourist destination Flims Laax Falera. She will take up her new post at the beginning of September. Head of Corporate Communications and
The contact person for the media remains Ursula Kottmann, who has headed this department since November 2002.
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Hans Lackner becomes Head of Administration Radio at marketer IP Multimedia (IPM). He will take over as Head of Internal Sales from August. Astrid Tellenbach has been entrusted with sales management.
Together they are responsible for IPM's radio business under the overall management of Michi Frank. Hans Lackner is currently a member of the management board at Spotpromotion AG.
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Rolf Blaser is to become editor-in-chief of Radio Extra Bern. He will take up the newly created position in October. The editor-in-chief will be directly
program director Reto Wüthrich. Blaser is currently head of music and editor at local competitor Radio BE1.
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Deputy Editor-in-Chief Clemens Hörler is leaving the IT trade magazine Netzwoche at the end of June. He wants to pursue a new career outside of journalism. His duties will be taken over by Alessandro Monachesi, who has been working for Netzwoche since its launch in spring 2000.
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After nine years of marketing management in the Wella Group, Christian Loosli set up his own business in Basel and offers his services as a freelance concept designer/copywriter.
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Maria Rodriguez will replace Anna Maier as anchor of TeleZüri's news at the beginning of October. Rodriguez is currently co-editor-in-chief of local radio station Energy Zürich. She has gained television experience at Sputnik TV, Star TV and in the newsroom of TV 3.

Petra Lauk and Daniel Briel Lauk previously worked at Ernst & Young as Junior Project Manager Corporate Communications, Briel comes from IR Firm, the former Wirz Investor Relations. ...
Dominik Allemann has been working as a consultant at the Zurich agency Marcel Bernet Public Relations since the beginning of June. He previously worked for Sylvie Merlo Kommunikation, which specializes in design and architecture.
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Uli Rubner (pictured) is stepping down as publishing director of Weltwoche and Bilanz at her own request. She will remain in office until her successor has been appointed.
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Valentina Herrmann is joining the Lowe team as Creative Director (CD) in August. As a member of the management team, she will head up the Zurich-based advertising agency's creative activities together with Keith Loell. Herrmann was most recently Art Director at Advico Young & Rubicam.
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André Benker is stepping down as Executive Creative Director at Advico Young & Rubicam (AY&R) at the end of June. He had taken over the position in addition to his duties as CD of Guye Benker when it was acquired by Young & Rubicam at the beginning of 2003. Following Benker's departure, CD Daniel Comte is now in sole charge of AY&R's creative activities.
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Judith Stoletzky is the new CD of the agency Studerpartner - until recently Studer & Wohlgemuth. The Hamburg native most recently worked at Kolle Rebbe, before that at KNSK and Springer & Jacoby.
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Marc Aebli has joined the Kreuzlingen-based communications agency Wemako as a consultant. The qualified communications manager previously worked in marketing at Kuoni Travel.
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At the beginning of July, René Zeyer will become the new head of copywriting at the program magazine TR7. Zeyer is currently a writer for Geo magazine and a freelancer for Du und Glückspost.

is the new Bern branch manager of the Plakanda AWI out-of-home advertiser, having previously been a customer advisor at NZZ am Sonntag.Philipp Bühlmann is the new Bern branch manager of the Plakanda AWI out-of-home advertiser. He was previously an account manager at NZZ am Sonntag. ...
Peter Matthys is to become the new Head of Communications at the Bern-based agency Hofer Kommunikation. He takes over from Adrian Haas at the beginning of September, who has been elected Director of the Bern Trade and Industry Association with effect from next year.
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Thomas Schwabe (photo) is the new CEO of Xmedia Annoncencen. He replaces Jakob Spring. Schwabe was most recently Head of Advertising at Aargauer Zeitung.
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Creative Director Patrick Lienert is leaving the advertising agency Seiler Zurich - formerly DBB - in Zollikerberg. Lienert joined the former Seiler DDB from Publicis in April 2000.
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Together with Lötscher & Egli Corporate Communication
Oliver Rodau joined the Kraftwerk advertising agency in St. Gallen. Rodau was previously agency manager at Lammoth Mailkonzept and personal assistant to Friedhelm Lammoth.
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Gebi Bischoff, the former managing director of the Zurich web agency Update, has founded his own company. WebDirekt specializes in Internet projects.
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Hans Ulrich Wernli is to become the new Head of Finance and Administration at PR agency Farner Consulting. He replaces Rosmarie Widmer Gysel, who is withdrawing from the agency due to her candidacy for the cantonal government. Wernli was most recently Head of Finance, IT and Logistics at the shoe retail chain Pasito.
At the beginning of July, Roland Bieri (photo) will take over as Head of Sales and Marketing at IT service provider T-Systems Switzerland. The former head of the "Rail" sales department will replace Gregor Stücheli, who will take over the management of T-Systems Switzerland at the same time.
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Angela Prisciantelli is the new Key Account Manager of the Romandie Combi newspaper combination in French-speaking Switzerland. She previously worked at Publicitas Swiss Press as Sales Coordinator.
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Ingenti Switzerland now also offers its advertising and exhibition systems in French-speaking Switzerland.
Cédric Ronzi has been appointed Sales Manager for French-speaking Switzerland. Ronzi joins the Killwangen-based company from the hotel industry.

At the beginning of July, Hans Klaus joins the Zurich agency Wirz Corporate. As head of the new Reputation Management unit, the former spokesman for Federal Councillor Ruth Metzler and head of information at the Department of Justice and Police is responsible for crisis communication and political mandates.
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Marco Simonetti is the new Creative Director at Heads Corporate
Communication. He is to expand the Zurich agency's design expertise. Simonetti was co-founder of the Bern-based advertising and graphics agency Walhalla.
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Dominik Imseng is joining the Euro RSCG Zurich team as Creative Director Text with immediate effect. Imseng will also be working at Euro RSCG Geneva on one or two days a week. Imseng was most recently Creative Director at McCann Erickson Zurich. Before that, he wrote copy for Jung von Matt/Limmat and
Weber Hodel Schmid.
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Silvia Klimesch has been a member of the Board of Directors of the communications agency Karl F. Schneider AG since mid-May. At the same time, she acquired part of the share capital. Klimesch has been working for the PR agency in Schlieren since 1990 and has been Deputy Managing Director for the past five years.
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Michael Gassner, head of the Kultur Aktuell editorial team, is leaving SF DRS and moving to Germany. Gassner has headed the editorial department since the beginning of September 2003, before which he was a member of the editorial team at ProSieben. Gassner's former deputy, Damian Schnyder, will take over the editorial management on an interim basis.
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Stefan Hostettler has been a client advisor for the Berner Zeitung in the Zurich office since June 1. He looks after national clients and agencies outside the paper's main circulation area.
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Clint Reichenbach is now supporting the Zurich marketing agency Factum. He is Product Manager at the marketing unit Die.Kommunikations.Fabrik. Reichenbach was previously with Ringier as
Head of Sales Publishing Service.

Corinne Blaser The cinema/print sales team will be led by Matthias Luchsinger on an interim basis before Daniel Pauletto takes over overall responsibility for the cinema, print, promotions & events and Imax sales divisions in the fall....
Roland Oetterli is the new Publishing Director of the consumer magazine Der Beobachter. Oetterli was previously Head of Group Marketing at the AZ Medien Group.
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At the beginning of September, Laurence Desbordes takes over from Renata Libal as Editorial Director of the French-speaking Swiss women's magazine Edelweiss.
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Andreas Wittausch has been appointed as the new managing director of the Winterthurer Stadtanzeiger. He was previously employed by Publicitas as
advertising and sales manager for the free weekly newspaper and continues to take care of these tasks.
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The Lucerne advertising agency Ottiger & Partner is expanding. Christina
Tsouras joins the Public Relations department with immediate effect. She previously worked at Also Holding and Trimedia. Graphic designer Gregor Thoma has already been working at the agency for several weeks. Before that, he worked at Kinzel & Partner in Ebikon.
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The Fruitcake advertising agency in Worb has recruited Daniela Müller to its consulting team. The qualified advertising assistant has been working for
1998 at the agency. With the departure of Willy Haldimann, Fruitcake downsizes its operational management. Newly introduced
was added to the photography department, which will be managed by photographer Lea Moser from August.
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Werbe- und Produktions-Services AG (WPS) in Geroldswil has strengthened its team. Miro Beck has been appointed Creative Director for advertising. Beck previously worked for Catapult, among others. Caroline Bobek, a new consultant and project manager, will join the team in July. WPS has newly created the "Future-oriented Publishing" department. Dani Arnold will take over as head.
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Zurich-based brand agency Meta Design has appointed Robert Abt as a new member of the Board of Directors. Abt will simultaneously
as a consultant. He was most recently deputy
Managing Director at Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux.
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Mario Aldrovandi will become Director of Radio Liechtenstein from June. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief of the failed Cracks for Kids.

Lajos Vizner and Guillaume Borel have opened the communications agency Vizner Borel. The two founders most recently worked as consultants and creative directors at Bonaparte, which went bankrupt at the beginning of the year. Vizner Borel currently employs four people.
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The Zurich advertising agency Euro RSCG is strengthening its creative team with another copywriter/concept developer. Thomas Blumer comes from Hesskiss, where he took his first creative steps at the beginning of 2003.
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Frank Hakenjos has joined Publimedia Webadvertising (PWA) as a consultant. He is dedicated to customer acquisition and support as well as all areas of online marketing.
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Sarah Theilacker joins Laika Grafic Media Factory in June. She will support the five-person crew of the Zurich agency in the areas of marketing strategy and project administration.
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At the beginning of September, Alberto Chollet will become the new Coordinator for TV Program Matters at the SRG Directorate General. He succeeds Tiziana Mona, who is retiring. Chollet is currently responsible for film productions at Ticino Television (TSI).
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Schulthess Juristische Medien AG wants to strengthen its publishing program. With this in mind, the Executive Board is being expanded from four to six members. New members are Inge Hochreutener and Barbara E. Albers. Hochreutener will manage the publishing house together with Werner Stocker. Albers will head the newly created Communications, Human Resources and Operations division. The new Chairman of the Executive Board will be Felix C. Lavater, in addition to his previous role as Head of Printing.
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New board of the Headline association: Kurt Suter (Ringier Print Zofingen), the previous Vice Chairman, will take over as Chairman. Also elected were Jean-Claude Bruhin (Cinecom) as Vice President, Christine Wernli-Meier and Andreas Zimmerli.

will become the new CEO of Mediaedge CIA (MEC) Switzerland. He will take over the management of the media agency at the beginning of July from Bernd Leckebusch, who is leaving the company.Volker Straube Straube was previously Managing Director of the MEC branch in Frankfurt. Gerald Le Meur, who previously headed the consulting unit Le Lab, is also leaving MEC.
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Katrina M. Arnold has been appointed Managing Partner of the Zug-based PR agency Dr. Peter P. Knobel. She was previously Executive Director for Private Banking at Merrill Lynch in Zurich and Geneva.
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Peter Rettinghausen becomes Creative Director at McCann in June
Erickson in Zurich. The copywriter previously worked for Advico Young & Rubicam and Wirz Werbung.
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Serge Deville joins the Euro RSCG Switzerland team as a new copywriter/concept developer.
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Blue Spirit Communications has strengthened its consultancy with Gert Schröder. He previously worked as managing director and consultant at the Lucerne advertising agency Planet. Ulysses Müller has joined the creative team at Blue Spirit. He was most recently Creative Director at Cosmic.
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The General Assembly of the Art Directors Club Switzerland (ADC) has elected Hanspeter Schweizer to the Board of Directors. He replaces Daniel Matter. Schweizer is responsible for the Special Events department together with Patrick Spahr. Valentina Herrmann will take over the new area of training and further education. The ADC has also welcomed Jean-Remy von Matt as a new member.
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Advertising salesman Cumi Karagülle is leaving the magazine Annemarie Wildeisen's Kochen. He is moving to U1 TV Station in June. The contact person for cooking customers is Dieter Maier with immediate effect.

is the new President of the Alliance of Swiss Advertising Agencies (ASW). The owner of the advertising agency of the same name in Eglisau succeeds Carmelo Buffoli, who was elected Past President.Andy Ruf The new Vice President is Markus Diener from Diener Consulting in Arbon. ...
Martin Bettler and Simon Staub join the Zurich agency Matter & Partner as Senior ADs in July and August respectively. Caspar Heuss was hired as a copywriter in mid-May. Staub comes from Lowe Zurich, Bettler from Seiler DDB and Heuss previously worked at Wirz Werbung.
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Rainer Kupper (photo) has been Head of Marketing and Sales at the Keystone picture agency since May 1. He remains Managing Director of the Keystone subsidiary Photopress AG, where he has worked for four years.
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After just 18 months in office, Reto Richard has left Brunner Verlag
in Kriens. He was advertising manager for the women's sports magazine Dynamica, the driving school teaching aid Let's drive and the
Restaurant guide Guide-bleu.ch
responsible.
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Denise Alig takes over as editor-in-chief of the Davos newspaper at the beginning of August. She will succeed Vladimir Pillmann. Alig worked as an editor at the Bündner Zeitung and Südostschweiz for 15 years.
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Pascal Ihle joins HandelsZeitung at the beginning of September. He will strengthen the "Money" team of the business newspaper. Ihle currently writes for the local section of the NZZ.
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The transport director of Lucerne, Mario Lütolf, has announced his resignation. In the fall of 2000, Lütolf took over from Kurt H. Illi, who had been in office for 22 years.

Gerhart Isler is stepping down as publisher of the newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft (FuW) at the end of 2004. In May, Tamedia Group CEO Martin Kall and CFO Daniel Manser will join the FuW Board of Directors. At the beginning of 2005, Kall takes over from Isler as Chairman of the Board. Martin Coninx, currently Marketing Director for Publicitas China...., will become the new Publishing Director as of January 1.
Publishing director Peter Kümmerli
is leaving the Observer. He has been working for the Zurich
Medienhaus Jean Frey AG, the last five of which as publishing director of the consumer magazine Der Beobachter.
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Le Courrier editor-in-chief Manuel Grandjean and publishing director Marc Seinet have announced their resignations. Grandjean has been editor-in-chief for five years, while Seinet joined the Geneva daily in 2000.
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After twelve years as Editor-in-Chief, Thomas Dähler is leaving the Bieler Tagblatt at the end of May. Until a successor is elected
Dähler's deputy Theo Martin took over as head of the editorial team.
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Claudia Bossert will take over as head of the newly created "Communications and Marketing" department at SRG Deutschschweiz on June 1. The department is currently being managed on an interim basis by Marianne Schneebeli, who is responsible for the "Advertising and Public Relations" department.
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Graphic designer Janine Fuchs joined the Zurich agency Laika Grafic Media Factory at the beginning of May.
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Elmar Wohlgensinger stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Directors of IHA-GfK at the end of April. He will be succeeded by Managing Director Peter Hofer.

The Zug-based marketing agency Unimark AG has been operating as Unimark Mediahouse AG since the beginning of April. Christian Grass has also been appointed to the management board. Grass has been responsible for cross-media as Head of Communication since 2001....
Creative Director Mark Stahel is leaving the Zurich advertising agency Lowe. After 13 years at Lowe and its predecessor agency GGK Basel, Stahel is taking an extended break.
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The new Editor-in-Chief of Weltwoche will be Simon Heusser (photo), former Head of the Foreign and Knowledge section. He will take over from Roger Köppel at the beginning of May. Heusser's deputy will be Markus Somm, the current head of the Domestic and Business sections.
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Roland Huber has been appointed Head of Marketing and Business Development at market research company Demoscope. He will take up his position at the beginning of May. Huber has held various management positions at the IHA-GfK Group over the past 15 years.
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Publicom, the specialist for media research and consulting, is expanding its qualitative research division. The psychologist
Richard Furrer joins the team as Senior Consultant. Furrer will primarily be responsible for research projects in the context of concept reviews, repositioning and product relaunches.
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Niels Stokholm (photo) takes over as editor-in-chief at the beginning of May
of the local station Radio Fribourg. He replaces Regula Saner and Pia Käser, who have shared the position since spring 2002. At present
Stokholm is responsible for PR at the Blue Cross. Pia Käser will continue to work for Radio Fribourg as deputy editor-in-chief after the end of her current maternity leave. Regula Saner is leaving the station at her own request.

Daniel Pauletto is moving from Tamedia to Cinecom at the beginning of August. The former sales manager of SonntagsZeitung will assume overall responsibility for the Cinema National (advertising film campaigns) and Promotions & Events divisions, the cinema magazine Close-up and the Lucerne adventure cinema Imax at the media marketing company. In his role, Pauletto supports the sales managers Corinne Blaser and Roger Baur and is a member of the Cinecom management board. ...
At the end of February, Marco Plüss left his position as Head of Marketing at Cybernet, an Internet provider specializing in SMEs. He is setting up his own company, Creative Marketing Service, which he founded back in 1996.
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Andrea Leu is the new Managing Partner at the Zurich PR agency Senarclens Leu + Partner. At the beginning of April, she replaced the founder
Marina de Senarclens replaced,
who, however, continues to actively support the company, including as Chairwoman of the Board of Directors.
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Roland Oetterli, Head of Group Marketing and Projects at AZ Medien Group, has resigned and is leaving the Aargau-based media group at the end of April. Oetterli, who has worked for the company since 1999, had only taken over the newly created Group Marketing division last fall.
and managed various special projects for the publisher (see p. 14).
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Tele editor-in-chief Klaus Kriesel, who has held the position since 1995, is leaving Ringier's program guide. Until a successor is chosen, Klaus Kriesel's former deputy Stephan Sutter will take over as interim editor-in-chief.

Executive Creative Director Urs Schrepfer is leaving the advertising agency Jung von Matt/Limmat (JvM). Schrepfer's successor is Alexander Jaggy, who has been Creative Director (CD) at JvM for three years. Alexander Jaggy will continue to be supported by CD Michael Rottmann and now by Tom Seinige, who has been promoted to CD. Seinige has been working as a copywriter for JvM for three years.
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Zuger Media is parting ways with its Managing Director for Publishing and Administration, Daniel Neukomm. He is leaving the publisher of Zuger Presse by mutual agreement at the end of April. His duties will be divided up: The Board of Directors has appointed Daniel Troxler as Head of Publishing Marketing, Thomas Akermann as Head of Advertising Sales and Claudia Rogenmoser as Head of Administration. Together with Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief Florian Hofer, they form the management team. In addition, Carl-Axel Englund, previously Head of the Current Affairs department, has been appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief.
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TopJobsScout24 has strengthened its management team. Dominik Walder (pictured) has been Sales Director of the online job platform operator since the beginning of March. Walder was most recently the Swiss Managing Director of the Harvey Nash Group, which is active in the recruitment sector.
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Benedikt Erni is the new editorial director at Radio Basilisk. He replaces Raphael Suter, who took over from Christian Heeb as program director in mid-March. Deputy Editorial Director will be
Nicolas Drechsler. Jean-Luc Wicki will take over as presenter. All of them have previously worked for Radio Basilisk.
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The two Tamedia stations Radio 24 and Radio Basilisk will be sharing the
Head of Music at the beginning of July. Andreas Meier replaces Leila Adriana in Zurich and Nick Schulz in Basel. The two previous music directors are leaving their respective stations. Andreas Meier has been a Radio 24 presenter for many years and will continue to present the program "Top24 - d Chart-Show vo Züri". In his new role, he will be a member of the program management of Radio 24 and Radio Basilisk.
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Christoph Vollenweider is to become the new editor-in-chief of the regional newspapers Zürcher Oberländer and Anzeiger von Uster. He replaces Oscar Fritschi, who is retiring in mid-May. Vollenweider has been working for the Zürcher Oberländer for two decades and is currently head of the foreign department.

takes over as Head of Corporate Communications at Clariant. He replaces Peter Brandenberg, Head of Human Resources, who has held the position on an interim basis since May 2003.Walter Vaterlaus ...
Lisa Feldmann will succeed Annabelle editor-in-chief Christa Löpfe. Feldmann was editor-in-chief of Elle and Cosmopolitan, among others. She has been editor of the SonntagsZeitung trend section since March 2002. Until she takes up her post, Martina Monti, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, will be in charge of the magazine.
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The new director of the Giornale del Popolo is Claudio Mésoniat. The former TV journalist is currently still on the payroll of the Ticino television station TSI. He will take over from editor-in-chief Cesare Chiericati, who is leaving the paper, at the beginning of May.
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The Geneva daily newspaper Le Temps is strengthening its team with Emmanuel
Garessus and Pierre Veya. Until recently, the two journalists worked as editorial director and editor-in-chief of the business daily L'Agefi.
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Stratos Prodromakis has been the new Sales Manager of the trade magazine InfoWeek, published by Compress, since the beginning of March. He most recently worked for the competitor IDG. At the same time as Prodromakis joined the company, Markus Stotz has taken over overall sales management for the three Compress specialist titles InfoWeek, IT Reseller and IT Report. Stotz has been working for Thalwiler Verlag for over seven years, most recently as Sales Manager of IT Reseller.
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Daniele Müller (photo) recently joined the communications agency Karl F. Schneider AG (PR-KFS) in Schlieren. He replaces Benno Schmid,
who has accepted a new professional challenge.
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The Biel-based web service provider Aseantic has appointed René Maeder as its new Account Director. Maeder was most recently a member of the management team at Assai Interactive, the Internet subsidiary of the Wirz advertising group.

replaces Heinz Bättig as Managing Director of the Reinach printing house Birkhäuser + GBC as of March 22. Bättig had been managing Birkhäuser on a temporary contract since June 2001.Daniel Merkel Merkel takes over the position in addition to his previous role as general manager of the production operations of the parent company Basler Zeitung Medien. ...
Publicis copywriter Petra Bottignole is leaving the Zurich agency to set up her own business as a copywriter/concept developer. Bottignole has been with Publicis for two years and previously wrote copy for Guye & Partner and Weber Hodel Schmid.
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At the beginning of March, the Zurich agency Advertising Art & Ideas appointed Patrick Meyer as its new copywriter/concept developer. Meyer most recently worked as a copywriter at Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux.
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Nathalie Oswald has joined the Biel-based advertising agency Virus Ideenlabor as a graphic designer. She previously worked for DDB Bern.
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A few days after the publication of the first figures of the Advertising Index Switzerland (AIS), project manager Hans-Jürg Gränicher (photo) is stepping down. Wemf Director René Schmutz takes over his duties.
Gränicher joined Wemf in August 2002 to set up the AIS advertising expenditure statistics.
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Max Ungricht succeeds Hansjörg Bürgi as Editor-in-Chief of the aviation magazine Cockpit. Ungricht has been involved in the concept work for the redesign of the magazine since the beginning of the year.
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Beat Riem, the previous Head of Human Resources, is leaving Schweizer Fernsehen DRS at the beginning of April due to the
Reorganization at the transmitter.

Jürg Waeber, former copywriter at Euro RSCG and Lowe GGK, has been working as a copywriter/concept developer at Ruf Lanz since the beginning of March. In May, another copywriter/concept developer, Patrick Suter, joins the agency. Suter also previously worked for Euro RSCG....
Since mid-February, Enrico Bachmann has also been responsible for the creative direction of Grey Geneva. He replaces Francis Gerber
who has set up his own business. Bachmann has been working as Creative Director for Grey in Zurich since last July.
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Euro RSCG Switzerland now has its own proofreader/editor. Gernot Mair has joined the Zurich agency from Advico Young & Rubicam after nine years in the same role.
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The Biel-based web service provider Aseantic has appointed Günter Bader as Head of Account Management. Bader ran his own marketing and web company Digmar AG in St. Gallen for 13 years.
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Peter Renggli, Marcel Suter and Walter Keller founded Second Opinion GmbH, a service company, in Aarau at the beginning of February.
for marketing, sponsoring and communication concepts. Among other things, Renggli was Head of Marketing Communications at Eurocard, MasterCard and ec-Direct for many years. Suter was Managing Director of AZ Wochenzeitungen AG, and Keller is still working as APG Branch Director Aargau-Solothurn until the end of the year. Heinz Alber, currently Director of Regional Business Contacts at the Swiss National Bank, will join the team in the summer.
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Christoph Bürge is to become a program developer in the "Culture and Entertainment" department at SF DRS. He will take up the position in mid-May. Bürge is currently Creative Director at the Hungarian broadcaster TV2.
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The new private channel U1 TV Station has hired TV journalist Urs Bachofner. Bachofner will be responsible for the daily news, but also for current affairs productions.

With CD Philipp Skrabal - from Matter & Partner - and copywriter/concept designer Markus Tränkle - from AY&R - Publicis is filling the gap left by the departure of CDs Uwe Schlupp and Daniel Krieg. Together with the new additions, Luigi del Medico, Ralph Kostgeld and Ralph Halder have also joined the new "Creative Board". In addition to the new CDs, other creative people have also been appointed: Thomas Ammann as copywriter/concept developer, Simon Sennhauser as junior copywriter and Andrea Dübendorfer and Isabelle Hauser as graphic designers....
At the beginning of June, Matter & Partner is strengthening its team with Christoph Bürge. The communications strategist is moving from Jung von Matt/Limmat. He will assume overall responsibility for consulting and, together with Daniel Matter, will form the agency's new management team. The previous head of consulting, Anita Haberthür, will become Bürge's deputy.
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At the beginning of March, the responsibilities in the publishing division of Migros-Presse were reorganized. Hansruedi Lüscher, previously responsible for the entire publishing division and the advertising market, is now in charge of Controlling and Services. He will also head the Service Center of Limmatdruck AG. New publishing manager for
Jrene Shirazi, who previously worked as Head of Marketing for both titles, will become Bridge Builder and Construire. Andi Huggel, previously Head of Marketing for Saisonküche, has also been appointed Publishing Director. Bernt Maulaz will be responsible for the advertising market for all three titles.
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Darryl Heinz von Däniken is the new Head of Marketing & Sales at the Grand Casino Luzern. Previously, von Däniken was Swiss Manager of the British club label Ministry of Sound.
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Eveline Fasser Testa has been the permanent Group Account Director of Euro RSCG Switzerland since the beginning of February. Also new at Gutstrasse is AD Patrick Beeli.
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The French-speaking Swiss business newspaper L'Agefi has appointed Christophe Roulet as Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Roulet has been working for L'Agefi since 2001. Before that, he wrote for L'Hebdo, Le Journal de Genève and Le Temps.

Barbla C. Schaerer has been Managing Director of the agency Trimedia Communications Zurich since the beginning of February. At the same time, she became a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Trimedia network. Most recently, Schaerer was consulting group leader and member of the management board of Farner PR....
On May 1, Markus Baumgartner joins the team of the financial and business communications agency Vipr in Zurich as Partner and Senior Consultant.
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Patrick Naef and Danilo Crisetig joined the consulting team at Lesch + Frei in Zurich on February 1.
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Bernt Maulaz will take over as Head of Advertising for Migros' member newspapers from February 23. He replaces Hansruedi Lüscher, who has been in charge of advertising on an interim basis and is now Head of Controlling/Services.
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Sandro Rüegger becomes Head of Advertising Market Magazines at
Tamedia. Rüegger is currently Publishing Director of the program magazine TR7 and a member of the Executive Board of the Jean Frey Group.
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The book publishing house of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) is getting a new director. Hans-Peter Thür, previously publishing director of the Birkhäuser publishing house in Basel, is taking over from Walter Knöpfli, who is retiring.
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Riccarda Mecklenburg took over the management of Fricktaler Boten at the beginning of the year. Mecklenburg was most recently Head of AZ Fachverlage and a member of the Executive Board of the AZ Medien Group.
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The University of Art and Design Zurich (HGKZ) has appointed Ruedi Baur as a lecturer and head of the newly founded Institute of Design as of March 1.

Agency founder Peter Fenkart is withdrawing from AG für Public Relations (APR). Senior consultants Walter Thomas Lutz, Pascale Lehmann and Thomas Balmer have taken over all shares in the agency from Fenkart. The three of them now form the Board of Directors and Executive Board. ...
The PR and media consulting agency Interpublicum in Ostermundigen, Bern, is expanding its consulting activities. Since mid-January
Melchior Buchs is joining the communications team. He is co-owner of the Impulsa agency and will work for both companies.
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Priska Dietziker has joined the PubliGroup subsidiaries Publimedia Webadvertising (PWA) and Publicitas Webservices (PWS). She is now responsible for customer acquisition and support as well as all areas of online marketing at both companies.
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The Zurich-based media agency Mediaschneider has expanded and restructured its management team. Carla Fuhlrott-Capello (photo) is now Vice Director of Planning and Purchasing. She is also the deputy to agency boss Urs Schneider. Manuela Merz-Sigrist is the new authorized signatory responsible for finance and controlling.
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René Bortolani is the new media officer at the University of Applied Sciences (FH) Aargau. He replaces Renata Battaglia, who passed away in December. Most recently, Bortolani was head of the Media Forum, the training center for journalists at the Tamedia publishing house.
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At the beginning of March, Ueli Walther will take over from Christoph Grenacher at SonntagsZeitung. He will become a member of the editorial board and editor-in-chief.
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Susanne Rohmund is moving to Schweizer Illustrierte (SI) as Head of Business at the end of March. She is currently Head of Business at Blick. Edi Estermann has also been appointed Head of News at SI.

Werner Mäder becomes CEO of Trimedia Communications Switzerland. He succeeds Michel Gutknecht, who is moving to Trimedia International as CEO. Mäder will be supported by Jacques Reiner, who has been appointed Chief Operating Officer. Partner and Management Board member Marion Starck has left the company. She will join the Executive Board on March 1
from Burson Marsteller Switzerland.
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Thomas Ramseier, former consulting group leader at Wirz, has founded his own agency under the name Brand Pulse. Brand Pulse focuses on strategic brand consulting, brand communication and brand design.
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Silvia Huber joined the consulting team at Meta Design's Zurich office in January. She previously worked at Interbrand and Nose.
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Sulzer media spokesman Markus Niederhäuser becomes head of the postgraduate course in business communication at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. The Sulzer Corporate Communications and Investor Relations departments will in future be managed by Gabriele Weiher.
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Klaus Peter Mager, PR Manager at Ikea Switzerland, is moving to the Farner PR agency. At the beginning of February, he will join the Bern office as Senior Consultant.
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The previous Media Research Director of the research institute
IHA-GfK, Knuth Hackbarth, will become Managing Director of the IHA subsidiary Modata AG on March 1. His successor is Thomas Kenel, currently Head of Radio Research Switzerland.
Otto Eisenegger leaves Media-Daten AG An era is coming to an end. After 25
years, Otto Eisenegger is leaving Media-Daten AG. We would like to thank him for his commitment to the publishing house and wish him all the best for the future. (WW)

The airline Swiss Air Lines has appointed Willy Schnyder as Vice President Marketing and Sales Market Switzerland. He replaces Stefan Gutknecht, who takes over the newly created position of Vice President Marketing and Sales Trirhena (Basel tri-border region). ...
Since the beginning of the year, Urs Freudiger (photo) has been Managing
Director of Pro Werbe Productions AG. The former Sunrise executive will succeed Reinhard Vissa, who will take over the strategic management of Pro Werbe Holding AG together with Martin Högger.
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Sabrina Visintin has been Head of Marketing and Communications at SRG's online service Swissinfo/SRI since the beginning of the year. She replaces Virginie Carniel, who is leaving the company.
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The Blue Spirit marketing agency in Schlieren has appointed Arne Völker as
Creative Director. He joins the Executive Board.
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Michael Zentner has been working as AD and graphic designer at the Lucerne advertising agency Fruitcake since the beginning of the year. Susanne Unseld has left the agency's creative department.
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New faces at the Biel-based web service provider Aseantic: Bernardo Egli is the new Sales Director, Karin Lange is responsible for marketing and PR, and Alain Willimann is Chief Technical Officer and responsible for production planning, training and internal development projects. Artur P. Schmidt, previously Communication Director and Partner, has left the company.
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Project Director Patrick Haertsch and Technical Director Bertil von Arx have taken over the management of Pixelpark (Schweiz) AG. Marcel Altherr is leaving the company.

will become Head of the Magazines Division at Ringier in April and will join the Executive Board in this role. Most recently, he was Head of Magazines and a member of the Management Board of Tamedia.Alexander Theobald Tamedia CEO Martin Kall will assume his duties on an interim basis....
At the beginning of December, Sonja Hürlimann took over responsibility for strategic planning at Euro RSCG Switzerland. She was previously a strategic planner at Advico Young & Rubicam for eight years.
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Sylvie Sengelin-Ritter is the new head of the Basel Watch and Jewelry Show Baselworld. The previous Head of Watches, Martin Fergusson, is now responsible for supporting exhibitors as Sales Director. The Head of Marketing and Communication, Monica Guarnaccia,
is leaving the trade fair at his own request after five years. Bernard Keller will be responsible for communications in future. Exhibition Director Sylvie Sengelin-Ritter will take over marketing on an interim basis.
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Regional editor Norbert Waser replaces Claudio Willi as deputy editor-in-chief at the Bündner Tagblatt.
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At the beginning of April, Marc Görtz will take over the management of Ringier-TV from Fibo Deutsch. Deutsch will remain responsible for Ringier's television activities at Group level. He also retains the management of Presse-TV.
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Yvette Häfliger is now responsible for customer service at Blickle
responsible for direct marketing. She takes over from
Myrtha Fotsch, who is leaving the company after eight years.
Häfliger was most recently Head of Direct Marketing at Zurich Invest Bank Ltd.
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The PR agency Zahner & Partner welcomes two new employees. At the beginning of January, Sabine Egger, previously a presenter and producer at Tele Ostschweiz, joined the team at the St. Gallen head office. In February, Mona Sieber joins the Zurich branch, where she will work as a project manager.
will be active in the new company. Sieber previously worked for the Bern-based PR agency
Zoebeli Communications.
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At the beginning of the year, Renato Oliva took over the advertising representation of Axel Springer (AS) in Switzerland. The position was newly created. Oliva was previously jointly responsible for advertising sales at Stocks as a customer consultant. Musti Asaf, Head of Advertising at Stocks, and client advisor Antonia
Aerni take over his duties.

Monique Stauffer, Head of Sales, is taking over the day-to-day management of the Radio Basilisk marketer Medag with immediate effect. Hans-Ruedi Ledermann is withdrawing from the operational business for health reasons, but will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors. ...
As of January 1, François Besençon will join the extended management of Publisuisse. He will be responsible for Publisuisse's activities in French-speaking Switzerland.
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Marc Reinhard will take over the management of AZ Wochenzeitungen AG in Lenzburg at the beginning of March 2004. He will succeed Marcel Suter, who is leaving the AZ-Medien Group at the end of the year. Reinhard is currently head of the supplement editorial department at the Aargauer Zeitung.
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Béda-Urs Schönenberger has been appointed Publishing Director of Limmattaler Tagblatt AG in Dietikon. He succeeds Oscar Meier, who has taken over responsibility for the regional advertising market of the Aargauer Zeitung. Schönenberger was previously Head of Marketing and Sales at Schaffhauser Bock.
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Christoph Dörig is the new publishing director of the weekly newspaper Luzerner Rundschau. He will assume operational responsibility and further development of the free newspaper. Dörig was most recently Head of the Consulting Department at Publicitas in Zurich.
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After 30 years at Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG), Reinhard Brunner is leaving the company. He most recently worked for APG in the Innovations/Projects division.
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The deputy editor-in-chief of HandelsZeitung, Reto Schlatter, will be setting up the MAZ Media Forum in Lucerne from March.
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Simone Reich will become TR-7 editor-in-chief René Hildbrand's deputy from January 1. Reich moved from Blick to the TV magazine in June.

Ringier is integrating the business newspaper Cash into the Advertising Market Magazines division. Its management will be taken over by the former Cash publishing director Thomas Passen. He replaces Nick Hösli, who becomes Key Account Manager Switzerland.
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The PR agency Frei Kirchgessner und Partner (FKP), Zurich/Bern, integrates Ruetz & Partner at the beginning of 2004. Founder Christian Ruetz joins the FKP management board. Paul Aenishänslin,
Managing Director of Bern FKP-
branch, is now also a member of the Board of Directors. He replaces Urs Kirchgessner, who is leaving the agency after three years as a partner.
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CEO Hans-Peter Thür is leaving Birkhäuser Verlag Basel at the end of January. Management Board member Eduard Mazenauer will take over his duties on an interim basis.
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Telebasel has appointed Walter Liechti as Head of Advertising. He was previously Managing Director of Basilea Film and a member of the Management Board of Allcom Productions.
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Annabelle editor-in-chief Christa Löpfe is leaving the magazine at the end of January 2004, with her deputy Martina Monti taking over.
Editorial management until a definitive successor is found.
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Head of copywriting Gerd Löhrer is leaving the business magazine Bilanz. The date of his departure from the editorial team is still unclear.
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In January, Francisco "Pancho" Rojas returns to the Worber advertising agency Fruitcake as AD. He has previously worked for the agency.

Co-owner Beat Aeschlimann is leaving the cR Kommunikation agency at the end of the year. His shares will be taken over by the remaining owners Stefan Batzli and Thomas Löhrer.
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Daniel Pillard becomes Director of Ringier at the beginning of December
Romandie and successor to the late Gérard Geiger.
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Marius Hagger replaces Michel Danthe as Head of Migros-
Medien as of December 1 and joins the management of Limmatdruck AG. Most recently, Hagger was Managing Director of Zürich Express at Tamedia.
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Manuel Dähler will succeed Matthias Steinmann as
Head of the SRG Research Service. The Head of Radio Research
takes office at the beginning of March. Dähler's current function
Stephanie Weiss takes over.

As part of the restructuring in the magazine advertising market, Ringier has filled newly created positions.
Agencies in the greater Zurich area will once again be looked after exclusively by a single person. Marco Valà, previously Brand Manager at Schweizer Illustrierte, is an experienced sales representative. Claudia Jänicke and Beate Jilg will take care of key customers as Key Account Managers.
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Michael Kindermann has founded the advertising film production company Snap Film AG in Zurich. It represents 13 directors from six countries. These include the Swiss Pierre Monnard and Patricia von Ah.
Kindermann has lived in Switzerland for three years, where he worked as a producer for Pumpkin Film.
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The advertising agency Scholz & Friends, Zurich, has appointed Diana Strebel as a new member of the Board of Directors (BoD). With immediate effect, she will join Yvonne Hodel, who has been a member of the Board of Directors since the agency was founded in
February of this year.
Most recently, she worked as CEO and board delegate at Wunderman.
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The shareholders of the commuter newspaper 20 Minuten (Schweiz) AG have appointed Marco Boselli as Editor-in-Chief and Rolf Bollmann as Managing Director. The previous editor-in-chief Markus Eisenhut is leaving 20 Minuten.
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In future, the SF DRS federal parliamentary journalists will form a
independent editorial team. It is headed by René Zeller.
He will take up the new position in spring 2004. Zeller is currently
Domestic Editor of the NZZ am Sonntag. The new six-person editorial team at the Bundeshaus reports directly to Editor-in-Chief Ueli Haldimann.
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The two business editors Daniel Ammann and Claude
Baumann switches from Weltwoche to Facts. Ammann
takes over from Lukas Hässig as Head of the Economy department.
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Claudio Zuccolini, who has been presenting commercials from all over the world on the SF DRS program "Top Spots" since October 2001, is moving to the entertainment department of Schweizer Illustrierte.

Fredy Collioud, CEO of the Publicis advertising agency, is stepping down from his post and will concentrate on his activities as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Publicis Werbeagentur AG and Chairman of the Publicis Group Switzerland from the beginning of 2004. The posts of CEO and Managing Director (MD) will be merged and new appointments made. The current MD Cornelia Harder must leave Publicis at the end of the year due to a conflict of interest. An external solution is being sought for Collioud's successor.
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The real estate platform ImmoScout24.ch has appointed Jürg Zesiger as sales manager and Marcel Schönhaar as new account manager in the Zurich/
Eastern Switzerland. He previously worked for Immostreet.ch.
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Suzane Brunner and Dominik Zeltner are leaving the local radio station Energy Zurich. Brunner was previously in charge of the station's marketing projects, while Zeltner was responsible for on-air promotions. Brunner will be succeeded by Daniela Jordi, who most recently worked at Rufener Events. Zeltner's successor is to be appointed in the near future.
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The Zurich-based Wirz Group now has an agency for pharmaceutical communications in Germany. Wirz Vital was founded by the Frankfurt network agency Wirz & Hafner. Peter Lohmüller, head of the contract research company Euphamed, and the two managing directors Bill McEwen and Susanne R. Müller are also partners.
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The Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) has appointed a new board of directors. The President for the next two years is Johannes Newrkla from the Viennese advertising agency Bluetango. The Vice Presidents are Martin Spillmann, CEO of Spillmann Felser Leo Burnett in Zurich, and Rémi Babinet, CD of BETC Euro RSCG in Paris.
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Sylvie Arsever from Le Temps has been elected as the new Vice President of the Swiss Press Council by the Board of Trustees. She replaces Daniel Cornu, who moved from
has resigned from his post. The new journalist representative is Pascal Fleury, editor of La Liberté. Charles Ridoré from Villars-sur-Glâne and Franco
Ballabio from Lugano take their seats as audience representatives.
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Ellen Ringier hands over the chairmanship of the Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art to Hans Ulrich Schweizer. The foundation has been running the "Haus Konstruktiv" in the former EWZ Selnau conversion station in Zurich since 2001.
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There are departures in the Facts society section: Daniel Blickenstorfer and Anna Schindler are leaving the news magazine.

CEO Kaspar Loeb is leaving the advertising agency DDB Zurich at the end of November.
The new Head of Consulting and member of the Executive Board will be
Roland Weiss, previously Client Service Director at Euro RSCG Zurich.
The position of CEO will no longer be filled.
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The Bern-based advertising agency Contexta is further expanding its creative department. At the beginning of 2004, Jürg Brechbühl becomes the third Creative Director (CD) alongside Bernhard Abegglen and Paolo Tonti. He also joins the management board. Brechbühl previously worked at Advico Young & Rubicam and later at Spillmann Felser Leo Burnett.
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Tereza Stäheli and Sebastian Rundy have set up their own business.
made. The former creatives of Inhalt & Form have founded an advertising agency in Zurich under the name Acapulpo Communications. Acapulpo enters into an office partnership with Action Agency.
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The brothers Livio and Fabian Consiglio have founded the company Pubblicità Autowerbung in Rottenschwil AG. Like the Zurich-based You-ad, it markets rear windows as advertising space. In its start-up phase, the young company is concentrating on the Bremgarten-Wohlen region.
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At the beginning of December, Roland Kühne takes over the management of the
Customer Contact Center (KKC) of Ringier in Zofingen. He replaces Markus Will, who has been in charge of the reader market for Ringier magazines since October. Kühne has headed the Mediamat department (newspaper vending machines) since January 2001 and was responsible for the integration of Journamat AG, which Ringier took over at the beginning of this year.
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Amos Winteler becomes the new editor-in-chief of Radio Basel 1 at the beginning of January 2004. Alex Klee, who has been editor-in-chief since 2001, leaves the station at the end of the year.

Ueli Eckstein, Head of Print Media at the publisher AZ Media Group, now has overall responsibility for the AZ publishing houseThe publishing management of the Aargauer Zeitung (AZ) is being restructured: and is responsible for the reader market and advertising technology. Christoph Marty, Head of Magazines, will also become Deputy Publishing Director of AZ as of November 1. Oscar Meier, previously Publishing Director of the Limmattaler Tagblatt (LT), will take over the Aargau advertising market. ...
The Basel advertising agencies Dialog BFK and Lucky Lack Advertising
merge to form Dialog Lucky Lack and are managed by the owners Paul Känel, Susanne Borer (Dialog) and Patrick Lack (Lucky Lack).
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Wolfgang Mecklenburg builds the
presence of its media agency group (MM+B/M&M) in France. MM+B Paris was merged with the agency Polka Media in mid-October under the name MM+B (France) agence media SAS. Polka owner Paul Cahienne holds a minority stake in the new company and sits on the Board of Directors (BoD) with Wolfgang and Riccarda Mecklenburg. Claudia
Mühlebach, Head of MM+B Switzerland, was commissioned by the Board of Directors to contact the French sister agency.
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The Geneva daily newspaper Le Temps has made new appointments to its Board of Directors. Gilbert Coutau, Paul Miskiewicz and
Bénédict Hentsch. New members are publisher Michael
Ringier and Ringier CEO Martin Werfeli. Stéphane Garelli will retain the chairmanship.
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In 2004, Leo Lüthy joined the editorial team of the TV magazine TR7. Lüthy has been working as an editor at SonntagsBlick for eight years.
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Even before the announced relaunch, editor-in-chief Hannes Britschgi is leaving the news magazine Facts. The new editor-in-chief ad interim is Stefan Barmettler.
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Ute Pichorner will become the new Head of Advertising at the Migros Cooperative Zurich at the beginning of November. She takes over from Hannes Schibli, who is retiring.

PR agency Farner is losing two members of its management team: consulting group head Barbla C. Schaerer is reportedly leaving the agency for climatic reasons and wants to pursue a new career.
to the company. She joined Farner at the beginning of 2001. Jean-Marc Hensch joins the Association of the Swiss Gas Industry as its new Director on November 1. He replaces Martin Saxer, who has taken up the newly created position of Head of Public Affairs at Axpo Holding
has taken up.
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Pierre Buntschu (photo) will replace Pierre-Alain Luginbuhl as Director of Edipresse's Vaud publications at the beginning of November. Luginbuhl will continue his career at Edipresse as a project manager reporting directly to the management. His successor, Buntschu, is currently Commercial Director of Edipresse Switzerland. This position will not be filled.
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The branding agency Landor
Associates has opened its sixth European branch in Geneva. Landor Geneva is headed by Executive Director Sue Smith.
Karolina Clevestig and Fiona Paratte act as Senior Client Manager and Office Manager.
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The design agency Process
enters the corporate communications market. To the
The newly founded Process Communications AG joins the existing Corporate Design (Zurich) and Product Design (Lucerne) units. It is also based in Zurich and is managed by Tobias Steger as a partner. He was previously Managing Director of Wirz Public Relations.
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The photo agency Getty Images is expanding its presence in Switzerland. Effective immediately, Dominik Obrist will be responsible for the Swiss market as Sales Development Manager. He is responsible for market development and
responsible for on-site customer support.
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Marcel Suter, Managing Director of AZ Wochenzeitungen AG, is leaving the company at the end of December. After 13 years in the newspaper business, he wants to change direction and set up his own business.

The Zurich PR agency Peter Bütikofer & Company is integrating the agencies CIPR in Geneva and Loepfe & Partner in Zug into its network at the beginning of 2004. Jean-Claude Delaude, the long-standing owner and managing director of CIPR, will continue to manage the business in Geneva. Loepfe & Partner is relocating from Zug to Zurich. Agency founder Steven Loepfe will become the new Managing Director of Peter Bütikofer & Company on April 1.
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From the beginning of December, Christina Muggli (photo) will head the Marketing & Sales department at Pizolbahnen AG. She takes over from Sabine Lendi, who left the position at her own request at the end of September. ...
The agency specializing in media research and consulting
Publicom is expanding its management team. Stefan now supports
Thommen will support the previous Managing Director René Grossenbacher in the management and further development of the company.
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Andrea Miolo-Eberhard has founded a new communications agency in Zurich under the name The PR Factory. She was most recently deputy agency manager at Dr. Peter P. Knobel AG in Zug.
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The Zurich-based communications agency Prime Communications has appointed Matthias Städeli as Head of Marketing Communications.
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The Swiss designer Markus Thommen will take over the
November the art direction of the German women's magazine Brigitte.
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The National Associations Council of the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) has appointed Walter Merz as President for the 2003/2004 financial year. The BSW Managing Director replaces Henning von Vieregge, Managing Director of the German GWA. Merz's designated successor is Hamish Pringle, Director of the British association IPA.
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Ueli Walther is no longer a member of the Blick editorial team with immediate effect. The separation is by mutual agreement. He joined Ringier in 1995 as editor of Cash and moved to the Blick management team in September 2000.

Michel Rutschmann, previously Head of Sales, Marketing and PR at Daewoo Switzerland, is to become the company's new Managing Director. He succeeds Bock Yong Choi, who is moving to the French branch of the American-Korean car manufacturer. ...
Sandro Giovanoli joins the Zurich advertising agency Advertising Art & Ideas as Creative Director (CD) Text. He has worked as a copywriter at Bolt, Publicis, Bosch & Butz and Euro RSCG as well as Creative Group
Head at Lintas Zurich and CD Text at the dialog agency Fisch Meier Direkt.
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The Zurich advertising agency TBWA is strengthening its team with Cary Steinmann. As the agency's new Chief Strategist, he joins the TBWA management team. In April, he left Wirz Werbung, where he was also responsible for strategic planning as Planning Director.
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Andrea Hemmi is to become the new Head of Communications at the Swiss travel group Kuoni. She replaces Stephan Wehrle, who is leaving the company at his own request at the end of October after 15 months with the company.
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Unisono has strengthened its team with Vera Matta. She has been working in project management and event management since the beginning of October. Nathalie Moral is also new at Unisono. She is responsible for the secretariat and administration.
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Markus Will took over as of October 1
has taken over the management of the newly created Ringier Magazine Readership Department for German-speaking Switzerland. He was previously Head of the Customer Contact Center and will continue in this role until the election of
of a successor.
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The Keystone photo agency is parting ways with its editor-in-chief
Andreas J. Minor. His duties will be taken over by chief photographer Alessandro della Valle with immediate effect. The management has decided to merge the positions of Chief Photographer and Editor-in-Chief and rename them Chief of Service.

Under the name "Results - Erhart Dialog", Jürg Erhart has founded a factory for dialog marketing solutions in the B2B and B2C sectors. Erhart previously built up the Marti Direct agency as Managing Director. Results is based in Zurich-Wipkingen. Urs Obrist, formerly creative director of WBO Dialog, serves as creative consultant for the agency. ...Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG) establishes a new sales organization for transit advertising called APGTraffic. The twenty-strong team, which will operate in addition to APG's existing sales organization, will be headed by Hans Peter Mueller. ...
The General Assembly of the former Radio Edelweiss Nostalgie Betriebs AG approved the change of name to Radio Basel 1 AG Liestal. Hans Rudolf Gysin was elected as a new member of the Board of Directors. Gysin is an FDP National Councilor and Director of the Baselland Chamber of Commerce. Among other things, he already sits on the Board of Directors of the Birkhäuser + GBC AG printing company, which, like Radio Basel 1, belongs to the Basel Media Group....
Internet service provider Youngculture has strengthened its board of directors. Kurt Rüegg has been a member of the supervisory board since August. Rüegg is Head Corporate Finance and partner of the financial consulting firm Swiss Capital Group. ...
Roland Brandstätt will become Marketing Director at food manufacturer Kellogg's in Bremen at the beginning of October. In this role, he will be responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Brandstätt succeeds Christian Conrad, who left Kellogg's in July....
Journalist Peter Stücheli-Herlach is leaving the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) to join the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur.
There, he will take over as head of the postgraduate course in political communication at the Institute for Applied Media Studies and the Research Center for Cultural Management, as the NZZ writes. Stücheli was previously deputy head of the City and Canton of Zurich and Zurich Culture department.

The PR agency Piar has opened its permanent branch in Bern and is headed by René Bucher (photo). Bucher was most recently Head of Communications at Lobag Management AG. As the originally intended managing director had to leave at short notice, Piar had to be represented in Bern by Renatus Gallati, President of the Swiss Public Affairs Association. Gallati now sits on the Board of Directors of Piar Bern, which was founded as an independent public limited company. ...
The Zurich-based Internet company E-Market is spinning off its web services division as an independent company. Jürg Unterweger, Anita Bürgler and Walter Bucher take over the management of the new Synergetics AG.
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McCann-Erickson Switzerland has appointed Timo Kirez to the management board. As Chief Creative Officer (CCO), he will be responsible for the advertising agency's locations in Zurich and Geneva from October. Kirez has been working as a copywriter and creative director for McCann in Geneva for five years.
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Swisspool, the advertising combination of the seven strongest Swiss daily newspapers, is expanding its customer service. At the beginning of October 2003, Marco Reale takes over the newly created position of Key Account Manager.
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The editor-in-chief of the Zofinger Tagblatt, Paul Ehinger, is taking early retirement at the end of September. Ehinger has been editor-in-chief of the Tagblatt, which is published as part of the Mittelland Zeitung, since 1988. He will be succeeded by his former deputy, Beat Kirchhofer.
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Bendicht Lüginbühl, program director of DRS3/Virus, has appointed Daniel Schneider as the new head of the youth cable station Virus. Schneider will succeed François Mürner, who has moved to DRS 3 as head of presentation, at the beginning of 2004. Until then, Matthias Völlm, deputy head of Virus, will take over the management of the youth channel.

Beatrice Kniel will take over as Head of Sales at SRG marketer Publisuisse at the beginning of October. She replaces Martin Schneider, who will become the new Director of Publisuisse on the same date. ...
The Managing Director of Waser Druck, Marcel Röthlin, is leaving the Tamedia subsidiary. His deputy Emil Michel will take over the management on an ad interim basis.
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Vanessa Flack has been the new Head of Communications in the Public Exhibitions division of Swiss Exhibition since the beginning of September.
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At the beginning of November, Urs Pfenninger, Head of Corporate Communications at Visana, will take over the same position at BLS Lötschbergbahn AG. He replaces
Ursula Good-Widmer. A new
Communication position created
S-Bahn has been combined with the former
Vice Director of Bern Tourism, Hans-Peter Ernst.
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Natalie Schneider joined the Lowe Direct consulting team at the beginning of September. Anita Lussmann Aragão has also joined the Lowe Direct creative team.
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Andrea Heierli has been supporting the Adliswil creative team as a graphic designer since the beginning of September.
dialog agency Fisch Meier Direkt. Thomas Engeli has also joined the agency as a copywriter/concept developer.
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The Board of Directors of Basler
Media Group has elected Ivo Bachmann as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Basler Zeitung (BaZ). Bachmann will replace Hans-Peter Platz, who is retiring at the beginning of January 2004 (see also page 18).
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At the beginning of September, Christoph Heri took over definitively from Peter Salvisberg as Editor-in-Chief of Swissinfo/Swiss Radio International (SRI).
He had already held the office since
At the beginning of August on an interim basis.
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The former USA correspondent for the news magazine Facts, Stefan Barmettler, has returned to Switzerland. In future he will
as deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Facts.

Beatrice Tschanz, Head of Communications at Centerpulse, is leaving the company at the Annual General Meeting on October 9 following the takeover by the American Zimmer Holding. The former head of communications at Swissair has been with Centerpulse since September 2001. ...
At the beginning of September, the graphics and web company Innpublish in Celerina and the agency Sport- und Eventmarketing Silvaplana merged their businesses. They are now based in St. Moritz as Büro 4 Werbe AG. Under the motto "Advertising squared", Managing Director Gian Reto Melchior and Head of Marketing Daniel Bosshard offer classic advertising as well as Internet and pre-press services. Jürg Capol, previously spa director of Silvaplana and head of marketing for the 2003 Ski World Championships in St. Moritz, becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors.
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The Zurich advertising agency Grey is expanding its creative team. Charles Blunier has been working for the agency as Art Director since the beginning of September. Blunier previously worked for Jung von Matt/Limmat, DDB Switzerland and, most recently, McCann-Erickson.
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Sabine Rüthemann has been elected as the new Information and Communication Officer of the Diocese of St.Gallen. She replaces Rosmarie Früh, who is retiring at the end of the year. Rüthemann, who currently works as an editor for Der Toggenburger, will take up the post on December 1.
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Kurt-Emil Merki has resigned as head of the "Society" department at the tabloid Blick with effect from September 1. He had only taken over the "Show" department at the beginning of May and expanded it into the "Society" department. He was previously media editor of the Mittelland Zeitung. Merki's successor will be Blick's head of foreign affairs Daniel Steil.
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Eva Herrmann is the new head of the German-language editorial team at Swissinfo/Swiss Radio International (SRI). She took over from Alexander Künzle, whose deputy she had been since 2001, at the beginning of September. In future, Künzle will be responsible for the business and tourism sections of the German-language Swissinfo editorial team.

Brand expert Klaus Brandmeyer has founded Brandmeyer Markenberatung in Hamburg and is leaving his previous position as Director of the Geneva Institute for Brand Technology (IfM), which he co-founded in 1994, at the end of 2003. Andreas Pogoda, Christian Prill and Peter Pirck, all former project managers at the IfM, are also on board as partners. ...
Willy Schaer left the Board of Directors (BoD) of News aktuell (Schweiz) AG at the beginning of September. He will be succeeded by Carl-Eduard Meyer, former Vice Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of News aktuell GmbH in Hamburg. Newly elected to the Board of Directors are Markus Schwab and
Peter Müller, both directors
of the Swiss Dispatch Office
agency.
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The current majority shareholder Neue Zürcher Zeitung has proposed Hans Lauri as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bund Verlag. Lauri is a former member of the government and, since 2001, of the Council of States of the Canton of Berne. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Bund Verlag since spring 2002.
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At the dialog agency Marti Direct, Nadine Kündig took over from Jürg
Erhart as Managing Director. She previously worked as a strategic consultant for the Zurich agency.
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Alan Castioni is the new AD at the Zurich advertising agency Inhalt und Form. Karin Estermann also joins the team as graphic designer. They complement the creative team at Inhalt & Form after Sebastian Rundy (CD Grafik) and Tereza Stäheli (AD) left the agency to set up their own business.
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The current Head of Promotion and Advertising, Carine Scherrer, is leaving Euro Airport Basel-Mulhouse. Her position will be abolished.
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Heinz Duppenthaler took over as Head of Marketing and Sales at Swissclick on September 1. He was previously responsible for online marketing at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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The operator of online marketplaces Scout24 Switzerland has created the position of Cooperation Manager. The position has been filled by Roland Nydegger, former Managing Director of the Swiss SME Foundation.

The Board of Directors (BoD) of Vogt-Schild Holding AG has appointed Christian Müller as CEO of the group of companies. Müller has been acting as interim CEO since company director and Chairman of the Board Rudolf Rentsch left the publisher of the Solothurner Zeitung at the end of June. René Rhinow, former member of the Council of States and President of the Swiss Red Cross, was newly elected to the Board of Directors. ...
The Regional Council Committee of SRG Deutschschweiz has elected René Stamm as Head of Finance and Member of the Executive Board of Schweizer Fernsehen DRS. Stamm will take over the position in February 2004 from Hans Ulrich Schmutz, who is retiring.
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Since mid-August
Tomas Rozas joined the creative team of the dialog agency Fisch Meier Direkt as a copywriter/concept developer.
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Dunja Tonnemacher is with
of the Zurich event and communications agency X-act into the
Tonnnemacher has been appointed to the management board. Tonnnemacher, 35, has been working as a senior project manager at X-act since January 2002.
She was previously International Congress Manager at the Basel-based pharmaceutical company Hoffmann/La Roche.
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Stefan Wyser is the new head of the Solothurn profit center at the Publicitas branch in Aarau. He
replaces Stephan von Arx, who is leaving the company with immediate effect.
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Jürg Bickel has been the new Head of Marketing & Sales at Schweizerische Teletext AG (Swiss TXT) since the beginning of August. Bickel most recently worked as Market/Product Manager at the manufacturer of plastic goods Cellwar in Zollikofen.
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The Swiss National Library has appointed a Head of Marketing and Communication for the first time. The current
Head of Museum Services Basel, Hans-Dieter Amstutz. He will take up the post in January 2004.
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The previous majority shareholder Beat Gloor has sold the translation company Text Translate AG to the
Managing Director Manuela Rinaldi and Quality Manager Verena Cimichella.

At the beginning of September, Bettina Cohen, most recently Head of Marketing and Communications at IT service provider Systor, will take over as Head of Corporate Communications at Bern-based technology group Ascom. She replaces Fred Rohrer, who has been in charge of the function on an interim basis since March. CFO Rudolf Hadorn will continue to head the Investor Relations department....
The Swiss Schulthess Group is merging the marketing and sales of all subsidiaries active in the household sector under one overall management. Hans-Peter Stamm, who will also become a member of the Executive Board, will take over this position.
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Pierre Gwinner has recently taken up his position as Head of Marketing and member of the Executive Board of Switzerland Cheese Marketing AG (SCM).
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The marketing department of Pick Pay Betriebs AG has been headed by Roland Berner since August 1. Berner succeeds Martin Ramp, who is moving to Usego AG as Head of Marketing.
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The Zurich office of McCann-Erickson Switzerland welcomes four new colleagues: Pascal Meichtry, most recently responsible for events at Credit Suisse Financial Services, joins the consultancy. The new AD Fabian Esslinger comes from the ADC/BSW creative school, copywriter Nemanja Gajic graduated from the Hamburger Texterschmiede, graphic designer Barbara Müller is a trained typeface and advertising designer.
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Nils Deparade has been a junior consultant at the Adliswil-based dialog marketing agency Fisch Meier Direkt since August. He was previously a client consultant at MRM Partners Worldwide. Christa Steffen has also joined the team and is taking over the Human Resources department.
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Anita Geiger and Cornelia Clavadätscher join the consulting team of the Zurich advertising agency Bonaparte.
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Graphic designer Steve Stoll and junior consultant Andrea Zeep on board the Liechtenstein marketing agency Waggner Communications.
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The production company Das Werk, renamed Treibhaus Postproduction AG, has strengthened its team with the addition of colorist Roger Sommer.

Long-time co-owner and Creative Director (CD) Hannes Weber is leaving the Bern-based advertising agency Contexta. His shares will be taken over by the co-owners Bernhard Abegglen (CD) and Daniel Hartmann (consultant), who will each hold 50 percent of the 60-strong agency in future. Weber will remain on the Contexta Board of Directors. Paolo Tonti has been appointed as the new CD. ...
Cordula Nebiker, responsible for sales management at PubliGroupe subsidiary Intermag AG Basel since 2000, will be leaving the company at the end of September 2003. She will be succeeded by Alain Lamy, Sales Manager at Intermag.
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As of August 2003, Alexandra Schneider will become publishing director of Schaffhauser Nachrichten, which she has been managing ad interim since March 1 of this year. In addition, the publishing house has nominated
Stefan Wabel as Head of Advertising Service and Christian Stamm as Head of Reader and Sales Marketing, further key positions have been filled with younger managers.
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Roger Möschler has been Head of Marketing at Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG) since August 1, 2003. Ivan Schultheiss, formerly Head of Advertising at Weltwoche, takes over as Head of Key Account Management and, in a second phase, overall responsibility for APG's sales activities.
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Paolo Placa will take over the advertising management of Das Beste and Sélection on September 1. He currently works as Head of Internet Research and a member of the management team at Publica Data AG in Zurich/Bern.
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Alexander Schubert, previously Managing Director of FutureBrand AG, Hamburg, has been appointed sole member of the company's Management Board. At the same time, he will also assume the role of CEO of FutureBrand AG in Reinach, Switzerland. His predecessor Martin Amann has left both boards. Tom Breitinger was also appointed Executive Director of the Swiss FutureBrand AG.
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Jürg Meyer, member of the Executive Board of Medianovis AG, will be leaving the company at the end of August. He will be succeeded by Ute Grossenbacher-Radicke, who will form the new Medianovis Management Board together with Daniel Steim from September 1.

Klaus J. Stöhlker is handing over the operational management of his PR agency of the same name in Zollikon. In future, he will act as Delegate of the Board of Directors. In this role, he will support the new Executive Board, which consists of Stephan Oehen, Fidel Stöhlker
and Eva Lehner.
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The advertising agency Grey Worldwide in Rüschlikon ZH is expanding its management team. At the beginning of July, former Senior Account Director Reto Baumann joined the management board. He is taking on the role of Client Service Director. Enrico Bachmann, who also joined the management team at the beginning of July as the new Creative Director of McCann-
Erickson has joined Grey. Chairman and Managing Partner Stefan Vogler continues to be responsible for overall management. His brother and partner Christoph Vogler heads Strategic Planning and Media.
Rudolf Stoffel is also a member of the Executive Board as Chief Financial Officer.
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The Solothurner Tagblatt (ST) is to have its own publishing director. As the lead paper of the Berner Zeitung (BZ), it was previously under the management of the BZ management (VR-
Delegate Albert Stäheli and
Publishing Director Franziska von Weissenfluh) together with Editor-in-Chief Andreas Z'Graggen. Lorenz Bruegger will now take over as ST Publishing Director at the beginning of July, in addition to his previous duties as Head of Sales Marketing for the BZ and its head papers.
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Bernhard Hügli becomes the new Head of the Customer Contact Center at
Espace Media Group (EM). He
replaces Noel from mid-July
Scheiwiller, who is taking on a new role in logistics at Swiss Post. Hügli was previously
Head of Marketing & Publishing Services at Fischer AG for
Data and Print in Münsingen.
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CEO Rudolf Rentsch is leaving the Vogt-Schild Media Group at the end of June. Rentsch will also step down as Chairman of the company's Board of Directors with immediate effect. On an interim basis, Rentsch's duties will be assumed by his
Christian Müller, the previous deputy.

Roger Grossmann has joined Publisuisse as Account Manager in the French-speaking Switzerland sales team. The former regional sales manager at Ringier Romandie is responsible for advertising opportunities on SRG's six television channels.
responsible.
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Following the merger with the online agency Connector AG, the Bern-based cross-media and dialog marketing agency 141 Worldwide is leading the way with a change in management.
Management Board continues the strategic realignment towards integrated communication. Amr Huber, most recently responsible for the online division at Burson-Marsteller, is the new head of the Interactive division.
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The current Head of Marketing at Baumgartner Papier, Denis Kaser, is leaving the company in the summer to take up a new position in marketing. Hannes Zaugg will take over Baumgartner Papier's press relations on an interim basis until his successor takes over.
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The General Assembly of the Association of the Swiss Printing Industry (VSD) has elected Christophe Muth as its new President. He replaces Angelo Eberle, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Regia Group, who led the association's activities for ten years. Muth is a founding member and partner at the business consultancy Consulting & Management Team SA in Montreux.
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Rainer Menning is leaving his position as Head of Backoffice Online at the SDA news agency at the end of July. He intends to work as a journalist again in future. Roderick von Kauffungen, Head of Customer Relation Services, will be responsible for contract-related matters on an interim basis. Grazia Siliberti is the contact person for questions relating to the back office.
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Laika Grafic Media Factory AG is starting the second half of 2003 with new partners: Jonas Schudel and Danny Rafaniello, who previously worked at Grotesque Mediengrafik, are joining the company as co-owners.
Laika crew. Phil Fürst, who has been with the company since its launch in 2001, will take over the operational management of day-to-day business as a representative of the management and as a partner involved in the company.

At the Zurich-based marketing company Mediabox, Daniel Naef is now responsible for consulting and sales of all below-the-line measures offered in Switzerland. Nico Keramaris, also new to the team, is active in the print sector and markets the
Youth Pool (Kult, Forecast, 7Sky,
20 Minuten Week and Re.set) and the new game magazine Pong.
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Since the beginning of June, Fredi Huber has joined the Küsnacht-based advertising agency Bunt as Co-Managing Director and Partner in the Strategy/Consulting division. The previous sole owner and managing director of Bunt, Isabelle Lieger, is planning to
reduce her workload and devote more time to further training.
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Roger Baur takes over the management of the newly created Profit Center on August 1
"PlasMedia" at Cinecom. At the same time, Baur takes a seat on the
Management.
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Georges Bérard takes over
August 1 as Managing Director at OMD Zurich City. He was previously Senior Account
Director at Carat Switzerland.
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One year before the regular deadline, Hans Jürg Klöti, Tamedia CEO
Advertising Manager, retired, will continue to serve the publishing house as
consultants are available.
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Thomy Häusermann has joined Hastings AG Zurich as a producer. The sound designer worked for Jingle Jungle AG until 2002 as a
technical manager.
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Fabio Giordano has been
At the beginning of June, she joined the art execution team of the Adliswil-based dialog marketing agency Fisch Meier Direkt as art director.
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Trimedia Communications has appointed Christine Visinand as Senior Consultant. She is in charge of
this function the Public
Relations team of the Geneva
Branch office.

At the beginning of August, Ivan Schultheiss, former Head of Advertising at Weltwoche, will take over as Head of Key Account Management at Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG). Roger Möschler, who headed this department on an interim basis for a year, will return to his duties as designated Head of Marketing....
The Baar-based marketing agency Linaxis has strengthened its team with Sandra Bizzarri. She is responsible for consulting, conception and implementation in the areas of marketing strategy, marketing communication and public relations.
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Andreas Jäggi will take over the management of the Zurich branch of PR agency Mediapolis in mid-June. He replaces Kenneth Angst, who has gone into business for himself.
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Beat Hodel is the designated head of the Polycom Zurich course. He has been a course instructor and lecturer at the Swiss Training Center for Marketing, Advertising and Communication for over 20 years.
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On June 1, Jost Wirz stepped down as CEO of the Wirz Group. The new three-member Group Management Board will be chaired by CFO
Peter Strub, his deputy Geri Aebi, CEO of the subsidiary agency Wirz Werbung. The third member is Urs Binggeli, CEO of Wirz Identity. At the AGM of Wirz Holding AG at the end of June, Wirz will also hand over the chairmanship of the Board of Directors to Christian Steinmann (as already announced in April). In return, he will take over the office of Vice Chairman from him, which he will perform on a full-time basis.
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The corporate publishing agency Yesway in Zurich is losing its co-founder and partner Renato Turri, who wants to change career direction at the end of August. Linus Fuchs and Reto Bärlocher, the two remaining co-owners of Yesway, intend to continue to run the company in the usual style.

The current head of the media agency OMD Zurich City, Christophe Waeber, is taking over the advertising management of the two Jean Frey titles Weltwoche and Bilanz. Current Weltwoche advertising manager Ivan Schultheiss is moving to APG. Peter Menzato, previously responsible for Bilanz, will take over the advertising management of Beobachter, which has been vacant since the departure of Tarkan Özküp. The commercial cooperation between Bilanz and the western Swiss business magazine Bilan was dissolved at the beginning of June. Weltwoche regional sales manager Servais Micolot now also represents Bilanz in French-speaking Switzerland. ...
Kenneth Angst has set up his own business as a consultant for political communication, public affairs and public relations. Most recently, he headed the Zurich office of the communications agency Mediapolis.
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Darko Veljaca is the new Area Sales Manager for the Swiss family with immediate effect. He replaces Adriano Valeri, who has moved to the
Tages-Anzeiger has changed.
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At the end of May, Alfred Jaeggi hands over the management of the advertising agency Publimag Bern to Olivier Steiner. Jaeggi is retiring.
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After 13 years, company founder Christian Jost is handing over the chairmanship of the Zurich-based communications agency Inhalt & Form to co-owner Claudio Zier, who has been working in the agency's consultancy since 1999.
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At the beginning of June, Hanspeter Kellermüller will take over the position of legal advisor at the Swiss Press Association (VSP). He succeeds Daniel Kaczynski, who has been Managing Director of the VSP since April.
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Zurich-based agency The Generation Media has strengthened its planning and consulting team with media specialist Peter Stirnemann.

The Swiss Advertising Association (SW) appointed a new eleven-member board at its general meeting. The following seven members were newly elected: Saverio Progano (Managing Director Mediaedge|CIA) as representative of the French-speaking Swiss association FRP, Beat Mühlemann (Head of Marketing Communication
Federation of Migros Cooperatives), Bernhard Eggli (Head of Brand
Management & Communication UBS), Cornelia Harder (Managing Director Publicis), Urs Schneider (Managing Director Media Agency M&M), Otto Meier (General Director Publicitas AG) and Guido
Wietlisbach (President of the Swiss Direct Marketing Association).
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The former advertiser and Blick
Editor-in-Chief Walter Bosch has been appointed to the Board of Directors (BoD) of Swiss International Air Lines. He was elected for a term of office of three years.
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Head of Communications Andrea Hemmi is leaving McDonald's Switzerland. She has tendered her resignation due to "differences of opinion in corporate communications".
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The Director of the General
Plakatgesellschaft (APG), Christian Kauter, becomes the new President of the Employers' Association of the Canton and Region of Berne. Kauter's predecessor, Bernese publisher Rudolf Stämpfli, will take over the presidency of the Swiss Employers' Association in the middle of the year.
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Lars Rupprecht joins the team of the communications agency Karl F. Schneider AG in Schlieren as an editor and junior consultant.
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Thomas Ramseier, Unit Manager
and member of the management board of Wirz Werbung, is leaving the advertising agency to pursue a new direction. Manfred Hager is the sole Client Service Director of Wirz Werbung.
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Nadine Ott joins the team at Zurich-based communications agency Lienert ComBasis.

DRS-1 program director Christoph Gebel has now also been appointed head of the Zurich radio studio. Gebel succeeds Andreas Schefer, who is moving to the management of Schweizer Radio DRS in Basel....
Hanspeter Lebrument is to replace Hans Heinrich Coninx at the head of the Swiss Press Association (VSP). The VSP Executive Committee followed Coninx's suggestion and nominated the publisher of Südostschweiz as President. Coninx will step down in September.
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Sabine Grebien joins the agency Brandpeople as a new Managing Partner. She will manage the subsidiary of the Bern-based advertising agency Contexta together with co-founder Florian Bausch. Grebien was most recently responsible for trade development at Japan Tobacco International.
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The Zurich advertising agency Bonaparte has strengthened its consultancy with Lajos Vizner. Vizner was previously Managing Director Consulting at Weber Hodel Schmid's Smart Factory. He then worked for Wirz and Glamour Engineering.
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Daniel Patrique Gauchat is the new Managing Director of the online advertising agency Publimedia Webadvertising (PWA) with immediate effect. He succeeds Marcel Bosshard, who is moving to IP Multimedia. Gauchat previously worked as Manager Planning & Consulting for PWA. Together with Ueli Weber, Managing Director of Publicitas Webservices, he is responsible for the operational management of PubliGroupe's Websales division, which is under the responsibility of Markus Ehrle at Publimedia AG.
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At the beginning of July, Daniel Meierhans will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the IT trade magazine Infoweek. He is currently Deputy Editor-in-Chief at competitor Computerworld. Meierhans takes over from René Dubach.

Goldbach Media has to do without Hans Ueli Keller. Keller, who has been a board delegate since the company was founded in May 2001, will leave the media marketer in mid-June. ...
Since the beginning of April, Ute Müller has joined the art execution team of the dialog marketing agency Fisch Meier Direkt in Adliswil as AD.
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The agency Facing in Zurich, which specializes in brand development and design, is expanding. Felix Ebneter has joined the team as Senior Designer and Simon Neuner as Consultant.
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Geologist and Atlantis researcher Eberhard Zangger has opened his new communications agency Zangger.org in Zurich. He specializes in public relations work for companies and individuals in the fields of science and technology.
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Enrico Bachmann will become Creative Director at the Grey Worldwide advertising agency in Zurich from the beginning of July. In this role, he will join the management team.
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The PR manager of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI), Christian Zwinggi, is setting up his own business. Together with
Eva Gerber, he founded the consulting firm Gerber & Zwinggi GmbH for innovation and communication in Zurich.
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Stephan Howeg will take over as Head of Corporate Communications at cable network operator Cablecom at the beginning of May. He replaces Theresia Büsser, who is leaving the company.
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The Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (Buwal) has parted company with its Head of Communications, Walter Wenger.
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Südostschweiz New Media AG (SNM), the Internet division of the Graubünden publishing house of the same name, has taken over Inspire Media GmbH. Andreas Kemp, founder of Inspire Media, which operates in Chur and Zurich, will become Head of Web Solutions at SNM. Marco Baikhardt, Kemp's predecessor, is leaving SNM at his own request.
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Janine Portmann has joined the Bern-based communications agency Maurer & Partner as a PR assistant.

After three years at Wirz Werbung, Planning Director Cary Steinmann is leaving the Zurich agency. Simon Walter and Sven Oeschger succeed him as Senior Planners. ...
Martina Schörghofer joined the consulting team of the creative agency Ruf Lanz in Zurich in April.
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Michael Gassler joined Zurich-based advertising agency Exxtra Kommunikation at the beginning of April as Client Service Director for the retail unit of the AY&R Group. Together with Stefan Erhart, he heads up Exxtra's consulting activities. The third member of the management team is Creative Director Dieter Hofmann.
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Jenny Settembrini has been Head of Marketing and Communications at Edelweiss marketer Rewag since April. Event manager and responsible for the Edelweiss Club is Manuel Staub, who previously worked in program management at Radio Edelweiss.
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As part of the closure of the Winterthur printing plant and the transfer of print jobs to Zofingen by the end of the year, Ringier Print has merged the sales teams at the two sites. Anton Zgraggen, previously Sales Manager Zofingen, is now in charge of the entire Print Sales department. He will take a seat on the Ringier Print Management Board. He will also remain responsible for Periodicals Sales Switzerland. Max Baumgartner is the new Head of Customer Orders Switzerland and Bruno Gubler is the new Head of Exports. Bruno Hörler is relinquishing his position as Head of Operational Sales, but will remain Head of Marketing. He is also taking over the Materials Management division. Its head, Hans Peter Zeuggin, will retire in mid-June.
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The St.Gallen entrepreneurs Oliver P. Künzler and Filippo Zanchi have merged their direct marketing companies Trendcommerce AG, CallWorld Telemarketing AG and PrintOne AG under the name Trendcommerce Group.

The former Head of Communications at SRG marketer Publisuisse, Markus Hollenstein, took over as Head of Marketing at the beginning of April. In this role, Hollenstein will also become a member of the Executive Board. ...
Managing Director Marcel Bosshard is leaving the online advertising agency Publimedia Webadvertising (PWA). He will take on a new challenge at IP Multimedia.
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Martin Lütscher is the new Head of Marketing and Sales for the magazines Automobil Revue and Moto Sport Schweiz from Espace Media.
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The advertising agency Advico Young & Rubicam has added two new division heads to its management team. Thomas Städeli is taking over responsibility for consulting, while David Allemann is the new head of the strategy department.
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The advertising agency DDB Zurich is expanding its creative team. With immediate effect, Daniel Bieri is joining the DDB team as Senior Art Director. Bieri has spent the last five years living in Germany, where he worked for Jung von Matt/Alster and DDB Berlin.
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A new agency for IT and integrated communication was opened in Chur at the beginning of April under the name Hocuz. The three young entrepreneurs Thomas Hobi, Christian Hobi and Peter Cucuz offer network and web solutions as well as PR concepts, event organization, advertising campaigns and multimedia productions. The focus is on customer consulting and concept work.

Robert Vego (photo) is the new Sales Director of the Lausanne Client Service Center of Publicitas International. He replaces Hildegard de Medina, who took early retirement at the end of March 2003. Vego has been with Publicitas International since 2000. At the beginning of the year he took on a new role as Head of Sales for French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino at the Lausanne Client Service Center....
Johannes Hummel has been appointed Deputy Head of Magazines German-speaking Switzerland at Ringier. In this new role, he will support Gérard Geiger, Managing Director of Ringier Romandie and Head of the Ringier Magazines division. He will also take over the responsibilities of Sari Simola, who is moving to Facts as Publishing Director. Bernadette Studer is taking over as Publishing Director of the Swiss-German edition of the women's magazine Edelweiss. She replaces Daniela Bahnmüller, who is leaving Ringier.
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Robert P. Hilty, CEO of the Aargau-based agency BAS, has been elected Vice President of the European Direct Marketing Association Fedma for the representation of company members. Ara Cinar (Bertelsmann France), the current treasurer, will take over the presidency from Holger Albers (DDV), who is stepping down.
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Ex-copywriter and author Thomas Meyer ("Die Federhure") is a copywriter again. CD Jürg Aemmer has brought his team colleague from former WHS times to Euro RSCG.
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Bramwell Kaltenrieder (previously Managing Director) and Mathis Marugg (previously Head of Competence Center E-Commerce) are moving from the Pixelpark branch in Biel to the management of the Biel-based Internet agency Orange8.

Daniel Deicher will become the new Chief of Staff of the Security Directorate of the City of Lucerne on May 1. Until January, he was Managing Director of Hitradio Z....
Elisabeth Demidoff (34) has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Presse Publicité Rep. SA by the Board of Directors. She was most recently in charge of the Key Accounts Department at Publicitas Léman. Deputy Director of the new management of Presse Publicité Rep. SA will be Yannick Chevailler (31).
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Thomas Fink (35) is the new PR Manager of the Intentia Central Europe Business Group, which comprises Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
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Jürg Zentner is ending his tenure as Editor-in-Chief of the lifestyle magazine Faces. He had been editor-in-chief since the magazine's launch two years ago. Art Director Anka Wessely will also no longer work at Faces.
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Bruno Hollenweger is moving from Zurich-based Publimedia AG to TeleTell. He will take over operational responsibility for the Central Switzerland regional TV station as Managing Director from June 1, 2003.
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At the Annual General Meeting on Monday, Markus Gisler and Heinz B. Wermelinger resigned from the Board of Directors (BoD) of the media company Jean Frey AG. Martin Wagner, the Group Attorney of the publishing house, was newly elected to the Board. Board Chairman Adriano Agostini, Vice Chairman Charles von Graffenried and Peter Kleiner remain on the now four-member board.
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Markus Vögeli joined the team of Karlen-Consulting AG in Ostermundigen as a junior consultant on February 1. The 27-year-old media engineer will deal with the areas of crossmedia, prepress and media informatics.

The Zurich-based online marketing agency Planetactive has been strengthened by Philippe Uhlmann. ...
The merger of the Swiss media agencies The Media Edge (TME) and CIA to form Mediaedge CIA has been completed with two new managers. Former TME Managing Director Urs Renner takes over the management of the Media Service Organization (MSO) in Bern and remains active for various clients of Mediaedge CIA Zurich. With Saverio Progano, the Lausanne branch will have a new Managing Director. He was already working there as Client Service Director and is taking over from Bernd Leckebusch, who is concentrating on his role as CEO of Mediaedge CIA.
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McCann-Erickson Switzerland has added advertising assistant Mayoo van Wissen-Verwey from Amsterdam to the support team for the insurance company XL Capital.
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Kristian Widmer will take over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Condor Communications at the beginning of April. He will succeed Roger Zbinden, who is leaving the company. Widmer will also continue to oversee the Entertainment department and the branch in Berlin. The new Chairman of the Board of Directors will be Martin A. Fueter.
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After five years in office, Hans-Ulrich Herrmann is handing over the directorship of the Bern and Biel School of Design at the end of July. The school commission has elected Anna-Marie Kappeler as his successor. Kappeler, currently Head of Media Relations and a member of the management team at "Winterthur" Insurance, will take up the post on August 1.

At the beginning of March, Heinz Brenner founded the online agency Brenner Communications. He was most recently Head of Online Communications at Siemens Switzerland. ...
The former associates Ernst Gremlich and Matthias Fatzer are taking over the activities of the Zurich communications agency Büttler Associés and are now trading as Gremlich Fatzer Partner AG.
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Denise Meier, previously Head of Channel Marketing at Canon Switzerland, has set up her own business with Jade Communications.
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The former editor-in-chief of Cigar and publishing director of Salz & Pfeffer, Bruno Bötschi, is coming on board as entertainment editor at Express.
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Markus Gisler is stepping down from the Board of Directors (BoD) of media group Jean Frey AG at the end of the current term of office.
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After one year as Managing Director of Universal McCann, Frank Woday is leaving the media agency. His successor will be Heinz Bischof (photo), who will take over the management of the agency in April. Marco Rose will remain in charge of the Geneva branch.
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In spring, Hanspeter Detsch will step down as Chairman of the Board of Directors of TBWA Switzerland and retire from the operational business. He will also step down from the Board of Directors of the (BSW) at the next Annual General Meeting (see also page 8).
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McCann-Erickson Switzerland's creative team was reinforced by ADs Sara De Pasquale and Bruce Roberts as well as copywriters Heike Gross and Susi Kammergruber.
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Eva Grolimund will take over the management of Clear Channel Plakanda's Basel branch on April 1. She succeeds Hans Rudolf Keller, who is leaving the company for health reasons.

Dietrich Berg's successor as publishing director of the Tages-Anzeiger is Maili A. Wolf. She will take up the post at the beginning of June at the latest. Before then, she will complete the mandates that she manages with her company Wolf-Consulting.
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Thomas Landolt will take over the management of Ringier Romania at the beginning of July. He replaces Christoph
Tonini, who will become Tamedia's new Chief Financial Officer in April.
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Managing Director Patrick Zanello is leaving the advertising agency Publimedia Geneva at the end of March. In future, he will be Head of Marketing at the business newspaper L'Agefi. He will be succeeded by Paul Doy.
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The Zurich PR agency Marengo has added Katja Schuler to its team as a PR assistant.
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Marcus Gretener joined the Ruf Lanz advertising agency as Head of Consulting at the beginning of March.
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Regula Tschopp is relinquishing her position as Head of Investor Relations (IR) at Tamedia by the end of June. Her position will be taken over by company spokeswoman Franziska Hügli.
At an extraordinary general meeting, the Swiss Marketing Club (SMC) elected Otto Ineichen as its new president. The owner of the Otto's retail group replaces Roman Zenoni, who resigned following internal pressure.
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Following the departure of Rita Baumgartner, press matters at Baumgartner Papier SA are now being handled by Denis Kaser and Hannes Zaugg.
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The new Publishing Director of Schaffhauser Nachrichten is Alexandra Schneider. The former Head of Reader Market is taking over from Felix Walder, who is leaving the publishing house.
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Andreas Németh is the new advertising manager of the Jäggi bookstore in Basel with immediate effect and will also take over the technical responsibility and coordination of advertising for the entire Jäggi/Stauffacher bookselling group in Switzerland.

Noureddine Ennair has been Director of Sales for Switzerland at Broadcasting System's newly opened Swiss sales office since the beginning of the year. She was previously Management Supervisor at Universal McCann in Zurich....
The Swiss publicist Roger de Weck has been engaged by SF DRS for further episodes of "Sternstunde Philosophie".
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Peter Maag is to become the new Director of the Thurgau Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHKT). The former business editor of the Thurgauer Zeitung will take up his new post at the beginning of June, succeeding Martin Fehle.
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The advertising agency Spillmann Felser Leo Burnett (SFLB) has strengthened its team with the experienced production manager Dani Strickler. Strickler was previously realization and production manager at Aebi & Partner and ASGS/BBDO. He worked for Publicis for eight years and for McCann-Erickson for five years.
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The advertising agency Publicis has brought Pete Watman on board as CD. He will be responsible for UBS's international brand budget. He was previously in charge of the mobile communications group Orange.
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At the beginning of March, Rainer Borer will become the new head of the business desk at Schweizer Radio DRS. He succeeds Michael Hiller, who wants to devote himself to program work again.
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Adriano Valeri is to become the new area sales manager at the Tages-Anzeiger. He replaces Reto Feurer, who will be working in cinema spot marketing from spring. Valeri was previously a member of the Swiss Family sales team.
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Rafael Suter is to become the new editorial director at Radio Basilisk. He takes over from Thomas Aebischer at the beginning of June, who will be taking on new professional challenges, according to a statement from the Basel local radio station.
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Deputy Director and Chief of Staff Christoph Reichenau will leave the Federal Office of Culture in July 2003. His decision is related to the reorganization of the Office.

Felix Walder, currently Publishing Director of Schaffhauser Nachrichten (SHN), is leaving the publisher Meier+Cie AG at the end of February. In March, he will open a multimedia marketing and communications consultancy in Zurich under the name W. P. Wyss & Partner AG. His successor has not yet been appointed.
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The Bern-based PR agency By the way Communications is now a public limited company. The former limited company announced that it was thus taking account of the development in turnover and earnings. The main shareholders of By the way Communications AG are company founder Richard Hurni and Stefan Herrmann, who joined the agency from Farner PR. Together with CFO Ruth Eugster, they form the Board of Directors. Consultant Cla-Martin Caflisch, who has been working for By the way for several years, has also subscribed to part of the share capital. The still young events division under Adrian Fluri will later be integrated into the AG through a shareholding.
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Oliver Bernheim took over as Head of Media/Marketing Services for Ringier Magazines at the beginning of February. He succeeds Nick Hösli, who is now Head of Advertising Market Magazines at Ringier. Bernheim was previously Head of Product Management at Publisuisse.
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Bernie Kron joined RBC Consulting AG in Meilen as a consultant at the beginning of March. The customer relationship management (CRM) specialist will help the agency to expand its consulting expertise in customer loyalty and dialog marketing.
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Patrick Senn, Editor-in-Chief of Tele Ostschweiz (TVO), will be leaving the station at the end of May. Claudio Agustoni, previously producer and presenter at TVO, has been appointed as the new editorial director. The change in editorial management will take place on March 1, 2003.
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Iwan Santoro will become the new editorial director of Radio 24 on May 1, taking over from Pascal Scherrer, who is moving to the commuter newspaper Express. Until then, program director Peter Brun will take over as head of the Info 24 editorial team.

After two years as a partner in the Thalwil agency JF Werbung, Francis Bissat is going freelance. He left JF Werbung, where he joined at the beginning of 2001, at the end of 2002 and offers his services as a freelancer under the name FB Kommunikation. ...
Silvia Behofsits is the new Head of Communications at Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHW). She took over from Ursula Hasler at the beginning of February.
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Friday Communications was only formed at the end of August 2002 as a member of the Swiss Grey network from the advertising agency Dorland and the PR agency CGI. However, before the end of the year, it was merged with the Musqueteers agency for corporate identity and PR.
laid. Most of the ten employees were taken on. Friday managing directors Mark Sommerhalder and Philipp Welti have left the Grey Group.
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The art direction of the Ringier program magazine Tele will be managed by two people in future. The Austrian Doris Oberneder previously worked at MediaGroup Berlin, which realized the redesign of Tele in October. The Lausanne designer Stéphane Carpentier has also previously worked for Ringier. He worked for several years as AD of L'illustré and most recently designed the men's magazine Type for Ringier Romandie. They replace the
former AD César Hernández.
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Scout 24 Switzerland is striving to increase its media presence. To this end, a position for public relations was created and
Stefan Züger is in charge.
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The Baar-based PR agency C-Matrix has strengthened its consultancy with Bernhard Schweizer as Account Director. He was most recently consulting group manager and member of the management team at PR agency Peter Bütikofer & Company.
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Alexander Haldemann and Bruno Schmidt, Managing Directors of MetaDesign Zurich, have acquired a majority shareholding in the company.
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René Schoch has owned 100 percent of the company since January 1, 2003
from Primetime AG in Schlieren.

Peter Wyss, Chief Financial Officer of the Basler Mediengruppe (BM) since July 1994, wants to change his career direction. He will therefore be leaving the company in the first quarter of 2003. ...
The head of the Blick sports editorial team, Ulrich Kühne-Hellmessen, is leaving Ringier. He had been head of the Blick/SonntagsBlick sports editorial team since the beginning of January 2002. The position will be taken over ad interim by division head Bernhard Weissberg with immediate effect. In addition to the editor-in-chief, the Blick sports editorial team is also losing its head of soccer, Jürg von Matt. The former player agent is resigning from his post during his probationary period in order to move to the
return to sports marketing. He only joined Blick in November.
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The Zurich agency Lowe Direct is expanding. Björn Brinkmann joins the team as Creative Director at the beginning of March. He was most recently CD at Grey Complete Communication in Hamburg. The consultancy has been strengthened by Charlotte Walter since the beginning of the year.
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Hitradio-Z head of music Leander Schüpfer leaves the Zurich-based station
local broadcaster in spring. His successor is still open.
The consulting firm Frei Kirchgessner Partner Communications AG has been strengthened. As a member of the management team, Karin Rodegra is taking over the management of a consulting team and the expansion of the health care sector with immediate effect.
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Michael Guggenheimer, former Head of Communications at the Pro Helvetia Foundation, and his deputy and producer Marielle
Larré have left Pro Helvetia. Larré will become the new head of the Pestalozzianum publishing house, while Guggenheimer is open to new ideas. The vacancies are to be filled by May.
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Hermann Suter, Head of the Lucerne Civil Defense, has been elected as the new President of the Truth in the Media Foundation. He replaces Alexander Willi, who has stepped down after 10 years as president. Paul Ehinger, editor-in-chief of the Zofinger Tagblatt, will be the new vice president.

Sari Katriina Simola is taking over from Christoph Marty as Publishing Director of the news magazine Facts. As previously announced, Marty will move to the AZ Medien Group as Head of Magazine Publishing at the beginning of May. Simola will take up her new position by June 1 at the latest, as announced by Facts publisher Tamedia. Simola most recently worked as publishing director for the Ringier magazine Glückspost. At the beginning of the year, the native Finn was replaced by Jean-Orphée Reuter and moved to the newly created position of project management. ...
The French-speaking Swiss publishers' association Presse Romande has a new president. Former Vice President Tibère Adler was elected to head the association on Friday. The new Vice-President is Gérard Geiger, Director of Ringier Romandie. Adler replaces Fabien Wolfrath, who held the office of President at Presse Romande for twelve years.
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Gérald Millasson closes his media agency Idémédia in Lausanne. All activities and clients will be taken over by Publimentor, a new agency founded in the same location. Behind Publimentor are Mark Casselle and Philip Reber, who previously worked for Mediaedge CIA.
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Isabelle Welton (photo) took over as Head of Communications at IBM Switzerland at the beginning of the year. She succeeds Alex Herrmann, who has taken a sabbatical and will return to the computer group in a new role at the end of 2003.
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Toni Loher has been the new Managing Director of the St.Gallen call center CallWorld Telemarketing AG since the beginning of the year. At the same time, he became a member of the management of the Trendcommerce Group. CallWorld was integrated into the Trendcommerce Group in November after the previous partner Friedhelm Lammoth left the company.

From February 10, Reto Wüthrich (photo) will be the new program director of the local station Radio ExtraBern. He replaces Claudia Schwab, who was dismissed last fall. The new program director Wüthrich was previously project manager at Migros Kulturprozent and a member of the management team at content provider Swisscontent. Most recently, he was the owner of the information agency Pepper. ...
Corinne Scarpi and Christa Niederberger have joined the sales team of the commuter newspaper 20 Minuten. Christa Niederberger has been looking after customers from the local Zurich market and the event sector since January 3.
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Andreas Meier has been a partner and co-owner of the advertising agency Metzgerlehner Worldwide Partners AG since the beginning of the year. Prior to this, he was unit manager and member of the management board at Wirz Werbeberatung and also a partner at Wirz Partner Holding AG.
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Marianne Burgener joins the dialog agency Fisch Meier Direkt in Adliswil. She previously worked at Readers' Digest Switzerland in Zurich.
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At the request of Radio Director Walter Rüegg, the Regional Council Committee of SRG Deutschschweiz has appointed Bendicht Luginbühl (photo) as the new Program Director for
DRS 3 and Virus
elected. Luginbühl, previously with
Radio DRS 3, will take over from Andreas Schefer in April, when he steps down. Luginbühl is currently Head of Content on the management board of Goldbach Media Holding.
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At the beginning of February, Silvia
Aeschbach new member of the
Editor-in-Chief (CR) of the tabloid Blick. She was most recently editor-in-chief of the
Meyer's women's magazine. From February, the editorial team of the Ringier-published magazine will consist of Werner De Schepper (Editor-in-Chief), Rolf Cavalli (Deputy Editor-in-Chief), Silvia Aeschbach, Hanspeter Peyer, Markus Rohr and Ueli Walther.
The Basel-based pharmaceutical company Novartis is merging its Communications and Public Affairs divisions. The American Steve Kelmar will take over as head of both divisions at the beginning of February.