Bernhard Rentsch grew up in Pieterlen near Biel and has lived with his family in Sutz for more than ten years, according to a statement on Monday. After graduating from university as a gymnastics and sports teacher, Rentsch turned to journalism. From 1990 to 1995, he was sports editor at the Bieler Tagblatt. Rentsch held various management positions at the country's largest sports association, the Swiss Gymnastics Federation. He was editor-in-chief of the association's magazine, head of media and currently head of marketing and communications. The versatile journalist and Seeland connoisseur ran his own communications office for over ten years and also worked for three years as a presenter on Tele Bielingue.

The 46-year-old succeeds Catherine Duttweiler, who headed the Bieler Tagblatt as Editor-in-Chief for seven years. Duttweiler is moving to BEKB at the beginning of January 2012, where she will take over as head of internal and external communications from April. From December and until Bernhard Rentsch joins the company, her deputy Theo Martin will head the editorial department of the Bieler Tagblatt on an interim basis.

The subjects are already in use. They will be printed as advertisements in trade magazines until further notice and are intended to show that a living room does not always have to look like a classic living room. Because the sand-lime brick Profila may appear with its wall structure also in areas, in which one would suspect otherwise no unplastered building blocks, so the agency.

Responsible at Hochspannung Zurich: Marco Huber, Matthew Katumba, Alex Taiganidis, Tom Fäh (consulting).
 

The Swiss Photo Award - Ewz.selection is endowed with a total prize money of 45,000 Swiss francs and is aimed at photographers who are resident in Switzerland and/or have Swiss citizenship, as well as photographers whose work has been published in Switzerland. Work will be submitted in the categories of Advertising, Fashion, Editorial Photography, Architecture, Fine Art and Free. The best 18 works will be presented in the Swiss Photo Award exhibition in Zurich in May and published in the exhibition catalog Swiss Photo Selection and in the image database Swiss Photo Collection.

The regulations and the entry form for the Photo Prize are available in German, French and Italian on the Internet at Ewzselection.ch available from December 1, 2011. The closing date for entries is January 9, 2012.

Mountainmania also met with lively interest on the Internet, as was reported in a press release on Monday. Around 335,000 users visited the website and played the mini-games over 435,000 times. 11,271 players successfully completed them and received the "Mountain World Champion" certificate.

Mountainmania has once again shown that sticker campaigns can always inspire, the press release continues. This is mainly due to the fact that children learn new things and can get excited about a topic. This is also the common goal of Migros and WWF. Many parents also appreciate the knowledge-sharing aspect of Mountainmania. This is evident from numerous emails and conversations with parents who have visited the roadshows and swap meets with their children.
 

As the German media group announced on Monday, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose by almost 16 percent to around 446 million euros. The Group confirmed its forecast for the current full year. It anticipates a high single-digit increase in turnover and an EBITDA increase in the low double-digit percentage range. "Our digital media continue to grow dynamically and make an increasingly large contribution to earnings," said Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in the press release. In the third quarter alone, the division doubled its earnings. Axel Springer wants to become less dependent on developments in the German print market. Springer has been successively expanding its digital business and foreign activities for years. Most recently, the French iProperty increased. In Switzerland, Axel Springer publishes the Handelszeitung, the Beobachter and the program guide Tele.
 

In addition to countless spotlights, Matter & Gretener's communication measures also put the athletes at the center of attention at this gymnastics event. The agency's visual concept is intended to express the dynamism, aesthetics and precision of the gymnasts and authentically convey the unique ambience in the darkened Hallenstadion, the agency said in a press release. The design concept runs through all touchpoints: From posters to advertisements, brochures, flyers and manuals to signaling, staff clothing, car lettering, nameplates and stationery.

Responsible at the OC Swiss Cup Zurich: Jürg Stahl (Chairman), Kurt Hunziker (General Secretary). Responsible at Matter & Gretener: Daniel Matter (Creative Direction), Julia Batzlen (Graphics), Dominik Imseng (Text), Marcus Gretener, Simone Frei (Consulting). Photography: Christof R. Schmidt.
 

In recent months, the magazine published by Profile Publishing has increased the number of copies sold to 18,340, according to a press release issued on Monday (end of 2010: 4,796 copies). The Wemf-certified circulation rose to 77,248 copies (end of 2010: 58,579 copies). Reason enough for the publisher to increase the circulation to 90,000 copies for the coming year.

Ecolife's distribution concept will be adjusted slightly in 2012, as the statement continues. However, the most important pillars will continue to be subscriptions, targeted distribution to people with a high affinity to the LOHAS target group in the largest German-speaking cities and conurbations in Switzerland, targeted distribution to high-traffic locations, kiosk sales in German-speaking Switzerland and partnerships with trade fair and event organizers.

What this will look like in detail is still unclear. In the best case, the bedtime stories will start at the end of February 2012, said SF media spokeswoman Andrea Hemmi at the request of the news agency SDA on Sunday. She confirmed a corresponding message of the Sunday newspaper. However, the start of broadcasting could be postponed because licensing rights first have to be clarified and the archive material has not yet been viewed. It is also unclear which programs will be shown - according to Hemmi, "Pingu" or the cult classic "Dominik the Badger" and the "Cat Pirates" are possible. But new stories are also to be shown.

There will certainly be a Swiss-German bedtime story and possibly also a Rhaeto-Romanic version, the media spokeswoman added. The four- to five-minute programs will be broadcast at 5:30 p.m. on SF1 and will be shown after the program "Zambo. This program is now focusing on the 10- to 14-year-old age group. In order to offer something to younger children of pre-school age, SF decided to show the bedtime stories again, Hemmi said. They first flickered across the screen in 1968. At the end of 2006, the German-speaking Swiss programs were discontinued. They were shown in Romansh until the end of 2009. (SDA)
 

Does Swiss typography still exist at all? And what is typically Swiss about today's typography? A possible answer to these questions will be provided at the first Tÿpo St. Gallen - a new series of events that will take place for the first time from November 18 to 20, 2011 at the St. Gallen Vocational and Further Education Center and will be repeated annually. At the three-day symposium, 13 speakers from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, England, the Netherlands and the USA will explore the "typical Swiss typography" in specialist lectures and workshops. As part of this new typography symposium, the German Forum Typografie will also be a guest in Switzerland on the occasion of its 25th national meeting, thus promoting exchange across national borders.

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Tÿpo St. Gallen is organized by the GBS St. Gallen and is managed by the St. Gallen School of Design and the College of Art, Design and Design. The Vadiana Cantonal Library, the largest library in Eastern Switzerland, and the St. Gallen Abbey Library, the oldest library in Switzerland and one of the largest and oldest monastery libraries in the world, are contributing to the symposium. On Sunday, November 20, 2011, visitors to Tÿpo St. Gallen can look forward to a visit to the Vadiana Library with its typographic treasures and a lecture in the Abbey Library on the subject of the development of typefaces in the Abbey of St. Gall.

Werbewoche is giving away five tickets to the event, each worth 350 francs. To take part in the prize draw, send an e-mail to [email protected]. The winners will be drawn on November 11.

All it leaves on the billboard are traces of glue and the message: "Today I'm making blue/your billboard." For jury president Remo Caminada, the two students have cleverly implemented the competition theme: "They advertise the poster by removing a poster and thus creating a conspicuous gap. The idea is simple, concise and humorous, but not trite." Together with the 19 remaining nominations as well as ten other exhibitions, the poster of the two winners can be seen at Weltformat 11 in Lucerne until November 13, 2011. Congratulations!

Like the hearing aids, the B2B advertising measures were also revised with the aim of making the technical development of the devices visible in the means of communication. To this end, all print and online products were given a visual refresh. The multiple award-winning Spice figures were also supplemented with additional motifs. The resulting launch campaign will appear in all Phonak markets in October.

Responsible at Phonak: Maarten Barmentlo (GVP Marketing), Ora Bürkli (VP Product Marketing), Ueli Würmli (Senior Marketing Communication Manager), Reto Sigrist (Marketing Communication Manager), Sonia Torre (Marketing Communication Manager). Responsible at Wunderman: Markus Gut (overall responsibility), Daniel Bieri (CD), Michael Gallmann (AD), Florian Tillmann (text), Nora Angstmann (graphics), Tom Schwarzenbach (graphics and DTP), Rahel Güttler, Gert Schröder (consulting).

As well as being a vegetarian restaurant, Hiltl is also a club: parties are held there five nights a week. Ruf Lanz has symbolized the club with disco balls in the shape of fruit. The aim is for the party location to benefit from the restaurant's popularity. The motifs are used on posters, advertisements, POS material, postcards and online.

Responsible at Club Hiltl: Rolf Hiltl (overall responsibility), Claude Hunkeler (Club), Masha Lehmann (Marketing). Responsible at Ruf Lanz: Markus Ruf, Danielle Lanz (CD), Isabelle Hauser (AD), Maren Beck (text), Kristina Burch, Doelkar Monkhar (consulting); image editing: Garrigosa Studio Barcelona.