For its twentieth anniversary, the Igora Cooperative for Aluminum Recycling is launching a new can press. The system was developed in close collaboration with Frontwork. Frontwork took the cooperative's ideas and created a modern design for the new press as well as constructed an improved mechanism, according to a statement from the agency. A design and development competition held by Igora and a two-year prototype testing phase preceded production. 200 units are currently being produced in an initial series. Italy and other countries have already taken notice of the new can press. They also want to collect more aluminum in the future. Following the Swiss example.

A frustrated employee of The Unlimited in South Africa started an unusual race - with an equally unusual outcome. Annoyed once again by the slow speed of data transmission, he had the idea of pitting a pigeon against the Internet. How does a data packet get from the sender to the recipient faster, via the high-speed line of a South African Internet provider or with a carrier pigeon? Without further ado, Winston, an eleven-month-old pigeon, was given a data package and set off on a journey from the company's call center to its headquarters in Hillcrest - about 85 kilometers as the crow flies. It took the brave Winston an hour and eight minutes to cover the distance. Including downloading the four gigabytes of data at the destination, the transfer by pigeon took two hours and seven minutes. At that time, the computer transferred just four percent of the identical amount of data over the ADSL line. Winston, for his part, is said to be a permanent employee of the company. And on Facebook, too, he is having a stellar career, with more than 3,000 fans already.

Vizner Borel prevailed against three competitors in a pitch and won the communications mandate from Migrolino. According to the agency, Migrolino plans to have a presence in over 140 petrol station stores and railroad station stores by the end of 2009. The first works will be seen in 2010.

Prime, an agency specializing in corporate and brand communications, has been awarded the communications mandate for Oxygen Biotherapeutics. This includes traditional media work and taking over the media office for the target markets of Switzerland and Germany as well as communication and relationship management with existing and potential investors, as detailed in a press release.
Prime is strengthening its biotech and medtech portfolio with Oxygen Biotherapeutics and is looking forward to the new challenge. Prime employs 30 specialists in public relations, corporate publishing, advertising and brand identity. Since its foundation over thirteen years ago, Prime has successfully relied on an interdisciplinary approach for individual communication solutions.

Premiere at the HWZ: On September 9, 2009, the first 17 graduates of the postgraduate course "MAS Business Communications" were awarded their diplomas.
The winner of the "Goldbach Media Award" for the best degree in 2009, which comes with a cash prize, is Anja Eigenmann, Communications Manager of the Grisons nature park "Parc Ela" in Tiefencastel. Bernadette Bisculm and Sandra Hungerbühler were honored for the best theses of the year. The graduates
Graduates are employed in functions such as communications management, marketing, sales and consulting and form a broad mix of sectors from industry, finance, service providers, public administration, tourism and education.
The 17 2009 graduates of the "Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Business Communications ZFH": Roland Anderegg, Barbara Baumann, Bernadette Bisculm, Bettina Buser, Anja Eigenmann, Annatina Fopp, Suzanne Gräser, Tanja Hollenstein, Sandra Hungerbühler, Franco Item, Markus Lötscher, René Luchsinger, Alexander Müller, Esther Räber, Renate Risseeuw, Nadja Schurter, Karin Würz.
The five-semester "MAS Business Communications" course at the HWZ, which is designed strictly according to Bologna guidelines and begins in January of each year, comprises the four face-to-face modules Corporate Management, Strategic Communications Management, Operational Corporate Communications and a specialization that can be chosen from several elective modules. The final fifth semester is used to complete the Master's thesis.

Bern radio station Capital FM is going on air with a new program. The most striking new feature is the program "The Simon Stalder Show", which will be broadcast Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. from September 14. It offers "perfect information and entertainment for the way home", according to a statement on Thursday. Capital FM listeners can expect advice on after-work planning as well as a summary of current affairs. The show will be hosted by Simon Stalder. He was already a presenter at Radio Extra Bern, the predecessor of Capital FM, from 2002 to 2006. He then worked at the microphone as stadium announcer for SC Bern until the end of last season.
Capital FM is also expanding its information expertise, the statement continues. The "Capital Morge" with Christoph Gnägi, the morning show for an audience interested in information from the region, starts at 05:00. In addition, the information output in the morning will be increased with the "Capital FM Topthema" at 6.30 and 07.30.

From December 2009, Marion Marxer will head the Digital Media and Dialog divisions at Jung von Matt and join the Executive Board. She has been with Publicis since 2005, initially as Senior Brand Director, where she built up the digital communications division as Managing Partner and member of the Executive Board from 2007. After studying marketing in the USA, Marion Marxer obtained an MBA with a thesis on "Digital Impact on Media and Society".

Zattoo has recorded its five millionth registered user. In Switzerland, 1.15 million registered users make use of Zatoo's services, as the Swiss Internet TV provider writes in a press release. Each month, 500,000 people visit the site and the services are used for an average of five hours.

The campaign designed by the Zurich agency KSB/SJ for the ZVV on the platform "Damit du da bist, wo dein Tag ist." is being implemented and used for a ZVV partner company for the first time. KSB/SJ has created an inspiring hidden object picture for the VZO, which shows many hidden allusions, jokes and small picture puzzles. The ZVV campaign motto manifests itself at the VZO in the headline "So that you are where you come to the train."
The motif will be on display throughout the Zurich Oberland. It will be displayed as an F4 poster, a large-format advertisement and a hanging cardboard box on public transport.
Responsible at the VZO: Joe Schmid (Head of Marketing and Quality), Adrian Suter (Marketing Project Manager). Responsible at KSB/SJ: Flo Wacker (CD), Andrea Heierli (AD/graphics), Nicole Maczko (text), Nick Schoberth (consulting management), Yvonne Stalder, Astrid Krauss, Franco Elsener (consulting), Bettina Beyeler (DTP). Image processing/litho: Ferco Dregelyvari, Detail AG. Litho: Detail AG.

The two social media platforms Facebook and Studivz have settled their legal dispute. Facebook had accused the German network Studivz of copying the source code and basic design of Facebook. Both companies now want to withdraw their respective claims in the USA and Germany, according to Netzzeitung.ch in a press release. The two networks will continue to operate their sites unchanged. However, Facebook will receive a payment of an undisclosed amount from Studivz. No further details were disclosed.
In 2008, Facebook went to court in the USA. This April, the US network also filed a lawsuit against Studivz in Cologne. Studivz responded with an action for a declaratory judgment. The Cologne court dismissed Facebook's action for injunctive relief as they could not find any unfair competition despite the great similarities. Facebook had announced an appeal against the ruling.

As of October 1, 2009, Iso Rechsteiner and Ueli Haldimann, the two previous deputies of the Director SR DRS and the Director SF respectively, will take over as successors. In order to ensure leadership in any case, the SRG.D Board of Directors has once again arranged the deputization, as stated in a press release on Thursday: At the suggestion of the new Radio Director Iso Rechsteiner, it elected SR DRS Editor-in-Chief Rudolf Matter as his deputy. Rudolf Matter (56) has been Editor-in-Chief of Schweizer Radio DRS since 2006 and is also Head of the Information Department and a member of the Executive Board. His previous professional stations were: Editor and producer SF (Tagesschau, Karussell), freelance journalist for European Business Channel, among others, communications specialist McKinsey & Co, editor-in-chief and presenter CASH-TV (Ringier), editorial head of economics and director of economics and program planning at news channel n-tv (Berlin, Cologne).
At Schweizer Fernsehen, the SRG.D Board of Directors followed the proposal of the new Director Ueli Haldimann and appointed Urs Leutert as his deputy. The 56-year-old has been head of the sports department at SF since 1991 and
He has been Head of the Sports Business Unit at SRG SSR since 1996. He is a member of the SF Executive Board. Before joining SF, he was an editor and presenter and later Head of Sport at Schweizer Radio DRS.
Like the new directors, the two new deputies will take up their posts on October 1, 2009 and will hold them for a limited period until the director of the new company to be formed from SR DRS and SF takes office.
Swiss-German SRG SSR company.

From 1 to 12 in just five years: This is the success story of Vizner Borel. The communications agency was founded by Lajos Vizner and Guillaume Borel just half a decade ago. Now the agency's motto "Le feu sacré" has been celebrated in style.
ViznerBorel was founded in Zurich in 2004 with just one employee. Today, the agency has 12 employees and works for clients such as Denner, VW Commercial Vehicles, Weleda, Schild, Dosenbach, Igora, Genossenschaft für Aluminium-Recycling, IGSU, IG saubere Umwelt, migrolino, Novartis, Ikea, Ciba Vision, IBSA Institut Biochimique SA, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, Theater an der Winkelwiese and others.
With a great deal of "feu sacré", the agency has successfully established itself in the market with national and international campaigns over the last five years. Strategic creativity or creative strategies paired with a lot of passion have led to classics in the communications industry. One recalls with a smile the Coop and Migros truck drivers who go shopping in the Denner in a TV commercial. Or the Cailler conflict with Jean Nouvel's packaging, which was answered in a quick-witted and humorous way in another commercial for Denner. IGSU and Winkelwiese posters have found their way into poster museums.
All of this was celebrated last Friday with many customers and industry colleagues at Miller's Studio. It was a party that defied the much-vaunted crisis with style. Vizner Borel's credo was unmistakable: "Communication that doesn't spark can't light a fire."
Now it's on to new mandates and the newly formed management team with Hanna Zimmermann (Creation) and Sascha Knauer (Consulting/Strategy).
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