Roland Hess is leaving the agency at his own request, as detailed in a press release issued on Thursday. The Board of Directors would like to thank Roland Hess for his great commitment and dedicated work. Together with Tamás Kiss, he has succeeded in developing Zurich-based Hesskiss AG from a creative two-man hot store into a successful and renowned communications agency. The newly formed management of the agency is looking forward to the next steps in its development. Everything will be done to ensure that Hesskiss remains a guarantee for intelligent, emotional and effective communication as well as a reliable and efficient partner in the future.
Tamás Kiss will take over as Head of Creation, a position Roland Hess has held for the past few years. Nathalie Zeller will be in charge of consulting.

The promo will start at the beginning of May. According to the press release, the first realizations will also be shown then.
This is the second year that the food manufacturer has placed its trust in the Winterthur-based company Isostar: following the national campaign in 2009, the 2010 budget also went to the sons.

This is theft, said Alexander Segert, Managing Director of the Goal advertising agency, in an interview in the French-speaking Swiss daily newspaper La Liberté on Thursday, according to SDA. The agency will use all means at its disposal to take action against the idea thieves. The head of the advertising agency said that they did not want the posters to be instrumentalized or distorted by other parties and groups. "We have never worked for the FN. And we never will."
The title of the French poster is "No to Islam". It comes from the FN party youth organization in the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur region. They are using the poster to campaign for Jean-Marie Le Pen in the upcoming regional elections in March, as can be read on their website.
This is not the first time that posters created by Alexander Segert for SVP campaigns have been adopted by far-right parties. In 2007, the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) copied the SVP poster on the deportation initiative for its own campaign in the federal state of Hesse. The SVP poster showed three white sheep throwing a black sheep from Switzerland.

The change of name from Premiere to Sky resulted in a write-down of 254 million euros for the Group. This was reported by the media service Kress.de. Meanwhile, Sky has reduced its mountain of debt from 318 million euros to 162 million euros. This does not yet include the proceeds from the recent capital increase of 110 million euros. Despite the multi-million advertising campaign to mark the name change, the number of subscribers has increased by only 105,000 in the past six months.

The campaign is aimed directly at parents and calls on them not to wait and see if they have problems at school, but to talk to the Minerva schools - the aim is to clarify in good time whether a private school is the right solution.
Responsible at the Minerva Schools: Christian Straub (Headmaster). Responsible at BGKS: Flavian Kurth (overall responsibility), Thomas Schaub (CD), Markus Milligan, Alexine Rüegger: (graphics), Stephanie Brünger (consulting).

Today, the Confederation and SRG share the costs of a good CHF 26 million. Without the money from the federal government, Swissinfo could certainly no longer continue to operate in its current form, said SRG spokesperson Daniel Steiner when asked by the SDA news agency. Steiner did not want to say any more, "as long as there is uncertainty about the performance mandate and the decision is not yet final". However, the SRG spokesperson points out that SRG itself wants to save CHF 7 million at Swissinfo. Three models have been examined, namely savings within Swissinfo, integration of the platform into Swiss Radio DRS and integration into the new French-speaking Swiss radio and television company RTS.
Marked increase in users
All variants had proven to be feasible - with full fulfillment of the contract, as Steiner emphasized. However, implementation has been put on hold as long as it is not clear to what extent the federal government will be involved in the future. When asked, the Swissinfo editorial team was unable to comment on the Federal Council's savings plans.
According to the 2008 annual report, Swissinfo has just under 123 full-time employees. The Internet platform emerged from Schweizer Radio International in 1999. At the beginning of February, Swissinfo was able to announce a significant increase in users (unique clients) of a good 18 percent for 2009 compared to the previous year. According to Net-Metrix, an average of 901,000 unique user terminals were registered each month. Page impressions increased by 17.6 percent to 6.41 million.

This was announced by the company on Thursday, according to SDA. The search for a successor to Sönke Bandixen has already been initiated. Chairman of the Board of Directors Klaus Oesch will take over as CEO ad interim. The separation was not due to a scandal, Oesch said in response to a question from the financial news agency AWP. The reasons for Bandixen's departure are also not to be found in the past, but lie solely in differences of opinion on the future direction of the company. He is a principled opponent of the dual mandate, Oesch added. He therefore hopes that a successor for Bandixen can be found quickly. The focus of the search is on an external candidate. Finding an internal solution would be difficult for a diversified company of this size.
69 percent less profit
Orell Füssli suffered a severe slump in profits last year.
Below the line, the company still earned 15 million Swiss francs. This is 69 percent less than in the previous year. According to the provisional financial statements, operating profit (Ebit) fell by 62 percent to 23 million Swiss francs. Sales fell by 17 percent to 306 million Swiss francs. The detailed financial statements will be published on April 8.

(Image source: www.orellfuessli.com)

A 14-year-old British girl who was trying to pass the time on the Wii Fit, a board for sporty balancing, experienced this painfully first-hand: she fell off the device, whose movements are transmitted to a screen, and broke her right foot in the process. Bad luck. However, this does not appear to be the only incident in connection with the popular game. One Wii patient is even said to have spilled blood into his chest after a fall. But anyone who thinks that the Wii Fit board is the only dangerous thing about the console is very much mistaken: the Wii game using the classic hand control also harbors dangers - albeit more for the connected TV set than for the player's well-being. For example, if the controller slips out of the player's hand during the simulated swing of a bowling ball, it can crash directly into the monitor after a short flight. It's all happened before. So this game is not without its risks - it is strongly recommended that you take out good liability and accident insurance before you start playing.

By 2014, 100 full-time positions will be cut across the entire SRG organization. Radio and television want to use the savings to finance the convergence project and secure in-house productions. The job cuts will take place in the support area and will be absorbed over a period of several years and mainly through natural fluctuation, SRG announced on Thursday. IT infrastructure, real estate, logistics, personnel and training, communication as well as marketing and accounting are affected.
As part of the planned merger of radio and television, SRG launched an efficiency program last June. The aim was to increase the productivity of the support services and reduce the current costs of around CHF 230 million by at least 10 percent. According to SRG, the entire support area comprises around 850 full-time positions. Of these, 100 will be cut by 2014. This includes both outsourcing and job cuts. A social plan is in place for those affected. The areas of controlling and legal services have not yet been reviewed.
SRG also announced that the job cuts will save around CHF 17 million from 2011. The savings volume should then gradually increase to around 33 million by 2014. According to SRG, the structural deficit cannot be offset by savings alone. The financial impact of the efficiency projects had already been taken into account in the medium-term planning and in the "Financial requirements 2011 to 2014" report.
SRG intends to use the savings - if possible - to finance the implementation of the convergence project with the planned merger of radio and television into regional business units. On the other hand, the funds are needed to promote in-house productions in line with the concession, writes SRG.
SSM protests
The Swiss Syndicate of Media Professionals (SSM) protested against the job cuts in a press release. SRG employees have been suffering from increasing stress for years as a result of efficiency gains. Without an improvement in the financial basis, the job cuts will continue.
The social plan is unacceptable to the media union. Anyone who rejects transfers, wage reductions or a reduction in workload should not receive any benefits from the social plan. These clauses are superfluous and unfair. In the current situation, no one would risk their job lightly in order to collect a "meagre severance payment".

This initiative, which began in 2006, has developed into a research experience, according to a Le Temps press release. The entire collection of texts is available free of charge on the Letempsarchives.ch website. The collection includes reports on the economic, political, cultural and social life of our country over several centuries, at times when freedom of the press was sometimes under threat in other countries. The archives date back to 1798 and contain around 4 million articles.
All content - articles, illustrations, photos and advertising - can be accessed via a simple keyword and/or date search. Each article is displayed in the original layout of the respective daily newspaper. The website's numerous functions allow you to browse through a complete edition, send articles or save queries in a personal folder.
This project to enhance the value of historical archives is the result of a partnership with the Swiss National Library, the Bibliothèque de Genève and the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne and the support of the Sandoz Family Foundation, Mirabaud & Cie Banquiers Privés and PubliGroupe.

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