For the first time, over 1,600 Fairtrade articles were available in the retail and food service sectors. Producers in developing and emerging countries generated direct income of CHF 70 million, of which CHF 5.8 million was in the form of a Fairtrade premium, according to a Max Havelaar press release on Friday.

The Step label can hold its own despite the economic crisis
The Step label's license income stagnated in 2011 due to the difficult economic environment and the weak euro exchange rate, according to the press release. The label generated a surplus of CHF 4,549 in 2011. Despite the stagnation, Step was able to push ahead with its internationalization with new partners in the UK and Canada.
 

Although the regional television stations are well anchored in their regions and provide an indispensable daily public service, the economic situation is not easy for the broadcasters. This was also shown by a recently published study by Publicom, which was commissioned by the Federal Office of Communications Bakom together with the associations of private radio and television stations, Telesuisse wrote in a statement on Friday. Therefore, Telesuisse demands from authorities and politicians that everything is done to improve the framework conditions for regional television stations. This is the only way to maintain and expand the quality of regional television reporting.

The upcoming revision of the Radio and Television Act (RTVA) is of great importance. The new Vice Director and Head of the Radio and Television Department at Bakom, Nancy Wayland Bigler, explained the federal government's ideas on this at the Telesuisse meeting.
 
Changes at Telesuisse in the Board of Directors
In order to be able to devote himself fully to his task as the upcoming President of the Council of States, the previous, long-standing Telesuisse President Filippo Lombardi has resigned. However, he remains available to the association as a member of the board. The presidency will be taken over by the current vice president André Moesch, head of electronic media at the St. Galler Tagblatt. Christophe Rasch (La Télé) was elected as Vice President and Marc Friedli (Tele M1, Tele Bärn) as a further member of the Board. Sabrina Carron is the new managing director of the association.

The winners will be selected by a jury of experts and will receive their prizes at a festive gala in London. In addition to prize money and photographic equipment, the winners also have the opportunity to draw attention to themselves and their pictures worldwide: The winning photos will go on tour around the world as part of an exhibition.

Every year, the Sony World Photography Awards recognize the best that international photography has to offer. To date, more than 430,000 photos from 178 countries have been submitted. Participation in the competition is free of charge. All entries are reviewed by leading representatives of the photography world. Previous winners of the Sony World Photography Awards include Alejandro Chaskielberg, Simon Norfolk, Paolo Pellegrin, Robin Hammond, Rena Effendi, David Zimmerman and the winner of the L'Iris d'Or 2012, US photographer Mitch Dobrowner.

In the new edition of the competition for 2013, participants can submit their pictures in the following categories:
- Professional competition for professional photographers
- Open competition for amateurs and enthusiasts
- Student Focus competition for photography students (age: 18-28 years)
- Youth competition for photographers under the age of 20
- Moving Image Award for all those who experiment with cinematic and narrative means
- 3D Award for all those who use 3D technologies for photography or video

The shortlist will be published in February. The winners will be announced at an awards gala at the end of April 2013. The winner of the L'Iris d'Or and thus the title of "Sony World Photography Awards Professional Photographer of the Year" will receive prize money of 25,000 US dollars. The winner of the title "Open Photographer of the Year" will receive prize money of 5,000 US dollars. All winners of the individual categories can look forward to receiving brand new camera equipment from Sony. The winner of the Student Focus competition will receive Sony photography equipment worth around 50,000 US dollars for their university.

The images of all the winners and numerous shortlisted photographers will be on display at Somerset House in London from April to May 2013. The exhibition is part of World Photo London, the month-long WPO Festival of Photography and Moving Image, which will be hosted at Somerset House for the third year running. The WPO will also showcase the winners' work on its website, at international exhibitions and in the annual Sony World Photography Awards book.

From now on, all HD channels of the public broadcasters in Germany and Switzerland are available to Zattoo HiQ subscribers. Das Erste, ZDF, Arte, Kika, 3Sat, Phoenix, BR, NDR, SWR, WDR, ZDF Info, ZDF Neo, ZDF Kultur are broadcast in HD resolution in Germany. In Switzerland, the HD versions of SF1, SF Zwei, RTS Un, RTS Deux, RSI La1 and RSI La2 will also be broadcast. This writes Zattoo in a statement on Friday. With a Video Web TV Box, the high-definition channels can also be watched directly on the TV. This means that for the first time in Germany, 15 million households with analog or DVB-T television will receive all the new free HD channels without having to upgrade to a digital cable connection.

Users of the ad-financed free version will also enjoy a higher resolution. For the duration of the European Football Championship, Zattoo is broadcasting all channels in almost double the resolution, which was previously reserved for HiQ subscribers.
 

It is between 32 and 40 pages long. The subject areas are divided into Summertime in Switzerland (with reports on day trips, ideas for hiking and vacations in Switzerland), Summertime far away (with reports on vacations by the sea, city trips/weekends) and Summertime at leisure (with reports on leisure activities and excursion destinations).
 

All 14 employees of Verlagslogistik Zürich, i.e. 12.1 full-time positions, will be taken over by Fiege under the same conditions. Tamedia wrote this in a press release on Friday. The employees' place of work will remain unchanged. Fiege will update the publishing logistics in Zurich with modern IT programs and new processes.
 
The logistics division, which has been under the management of Charlie Fahim since fall 2011, will also strengthen the Bern site from the end of July, writes the media company. Central logistics planning and data management for all Tamedia titles will be managed from Bern in future.
 

The campaign focuses on Gossau personalities and members of the public who set a good example and consciously save energy every day. In a competition in the local newspaper, readers are invited to send their personal energy-saving tip to the municipal utilities. The prize is a shopping voucher from the specialist stores in Gossau SG and an energy brush from the municipal utilities. The winning and customer gift symbolizes the act of mopping up in front of your own door. Energy saving is the topic of conversation or thought when the gift is handed over and used.

The success of the campaign is based on the local awareness of the everyday protagonists and the transfer from the advertisement to everyday life with the energy broom, according to the agency. It gives the personal efforts relevance. Attention is raised by the likelihood that viewers know the people personally or from seeing them. The suspense of who will be seen here next is intended to trigger a certain "search for energy-saving opportunities" and create the desire to stand in this place yourself. They provide the material for the stories: "Do good and talk about it."
 

A 13.5-meter-high and 4.0-meter-wide cube stands in the Wannerhalle of Zurich's main train station, with a full-size Fiat 500 model mounted on each side. With this campaign, Fiat wants to draw attention to Fiat 500 Style Day with Bruce Darnell on June 9, 2012 in Zurich's Sihlcity shopping center. This special form of advertising was commissioned by the customer Fiat from APG|SGA Mega Poster, according to an APG|SGA release.

The cube was created in close collaboration with the creative agency Hessskisssulzersutter and the long-standing APG|SGA mega-poster partner Richnerstutz. The cube consists of a truss construction and is covered with printed canvas. The Fiat 500 models are dummies, made with fiberglass technology. This makes the cars much lighter than original models and enables this unusually large staging.

The giant cube is on display at Zurich Main Station until June 5, 2012.

The motif has already been taken up by the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel. It is intended to express the exceptional psychological situation. The subject also opens this year's 2012 poster campaign, again conceived and realized by CR Basel. The basic message is now followed after two weeks by subjects with an empty box and an accessory left behind - as a visualization of the liberation that follows the illness, culminating in the statement "Depression is treatable.

Responsible at the Department of Health Basel-Stadt: Thomas Steffen (FMH Head of Prevention and Public Health), Christina Karpf, Nicole Zingg, Caroline Guggisberg (Academic Staff). Responsible at CR Basel: Gabriel Heuberger (CD), Philipp Schweizer (text), David Burkhardt (AD/photos), Thomas Fux (consulting).
 

This includes the brand design, concept and realization of the website as well as the outfitting of the shoe consultants by Ideenhaus. From April 2012, men in the greater Zurich area will be able to try on their handmade business shoes at home, in the office or in the showroom in Baden with the personal support of a Silany shoe consultant. The desired shoe models are selected online and the consultation appointment is also arranged online. Then, on the private couch, in the office or in the showroom, the Silany advisor answers all questions and brings the desired models with them to try on.

The brand design for Silany has already been implemented on the website. Information about the shoe collection on offer and, of course, the exact procedure can be found here. Incidentally, the silany shoe consultants are equipped with a specially developed, stylish roll container, which Ideenhaus was involved in developing.
 

In Thursday's edition, the political and cultural newspaper printed the donations to date: the editorial team, which is also the owner, received 94,628 francs from subscribers and sympathizers. This means that P.S. will continue, the editorial team wrote.

At the beginning of May, the paper announced its impending demise in an appeal for donations. If 100,000 francs were not donated quickly, the newspaper would not survive the summer. There was no further potential for savings and the paper would rather close than "continue for a few more months and then leave unpaid bills behind".

Donations as a fixed business model

The newspaper, which is primarily read by sympathizers and members of the SP and the Greens, has been in the red for years. Although the annual deficit of CHF 50,000 is not large, it could never be covered in the long term.

Appeals for donations seem to be developing into a permanent business model at P.S. Before the current appeal for help, publisher Koni Loepfe, former SP president of the city of Zurich, had already decided on this measure several times. In 2004, for example, the appeal for donations appeared under the title "Dörfs es bitzeli meh si?". At that time, 50,000 francs were raised within a few weeks. (SDA)

Christopf Brand succeeds Christoph Tonini, who will take over as Chairman of the Management Board in 2013. Brand can look back on a broad range of experience in the telecommunications and information technology sector in Switzerland and abroad, as Tamedia writes in a press release on Thursday. After studying economics at the University of Bern, he joined Swisscom in 1995 and took over the management of Bluewin, Switzerland's largest Internet provider at the time, in 1998, where he played a key role in its expansion. In 2002, the now 42-year-old moved to Swisscom, where he was most recently a member of the Group Executive Board as Chief Strategy Officer. In 2006, he took over the management of the telecommunications company Sunrise and implemented a successful growth strategy. In addition to his operational duties, he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Directories, Cinetrade, Swisscom Mobile and Micronas.

The Digital division includes all of Tamedia's commercial online activities such as the directory and service portal Search.ch, the job platforms Alpha.ch, Jobup.ch and Jobwinner.ch, the vehicle market Car4you.ch, the real estate portal Homegate.ch, the classifieds platform Piazza.ch as well as the dating site swissfriends and the participations such as Fashionfriends.ch, Jobsuchmaschine.ch, Olmero.ch, Renovero.ch and Zattoo.ch. Under the leadership of Christoph Brand, Tamedia's digital division is to be further expanded considerably.