The 45-year-old Florian Fels previously held a dual position: on the one hand, as CEO Ringier Eastern Europe, he was responsible for Ringier's activities in Hungary and Romania - at the same time, since the merger of the Eastern European businesses of Ringier and Axel Springer in 2010, Fels was also CEO of the joint venture Ringier Axel Springer Media and thus responsible for the publishing business in Poland, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Slovakia. Fels is a member of the Group Executive Board at Ringier.

Florian Fels will take over as head of the Publishing division at Ringier as of March 1, 2013, according to a statement on Monday. Marc Walder, CEO of Ringier, had until now directly managed the Publishing division, which was formed from the former Ringier Switzerland and Germany business area.

Florian Fels has held various positions at the German publishing house Axel Springer since 1993, and from 1999 to 2010 in Poland, most recently as Managing CEO of Axel Springer Poland. Fels' successor as CEO at Ringier Axel Springer Media will be Mark Dekan, until now already Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the joint venture between Ringier and Axel Springer. He will continue to perform the function of CFO. Dekan was previously Commercial Director of Finance & Services at Axel Springer since 2008.

Marc Walder, CEO Ringier, on the new appointment: "With Florian Fels, a manager who is extremely well versed and experienced in the core business of our company is taking over the still central Publishing division. Mark Dean, on the other hand, takes over as CEO of Ringier Axel Springer Media from the man who has been utterly convincing as CFO over the past three years and who, together with Florian Fels, has played a key role in shaping this joint venture with Axel Springer.

At Ringier, the Publishing division comprises the Blick Group, Ringier Magazines, Ringier Romandie, Ringier Germany, Ringier Print Adligenswil, Swissprinters, Ringier China & Pacific, and IT & Services. The three other divisions at Ringier are Ringier Entertainment (headed by Michael Voss), Ringier Digital (headed by Thomas Kaiser), and Ringier Eastern Europe (still headed by Florian Fels).

The collaboration starts with a highlight, as the agency writes in a press release. On Wednesday, 27 February 2013, the new Customize models will be presented at a media event in the Adidas Originals showroom in Zurich's Westpark. The agency is responsible for the planning, organization, implementation and control of the event as well as media relationship management. The mandate also includes ongoing lobbying and the processing of journalist inquiries, product placement, the provision of test material, the dispatch of media releases and the hosting of press images on the multimedia database Photopress.ch/image/adidas+eyewear.
 

The film shows how two Pfadi handball players from the first team use their talent at the Migros checkout to shorten the waiting time. The surveillance cameras captured the scene - purely by chance, of course.

With this clip, Pfadi Handball wants to continue to draw attention to its athletic sport and thus help it gain more publicity, according to a press release. The film was conceived and developed by Dachcom.

Responsible at Pfadi Winterthur Handball: Adi Brüngger (Management Board). Responsible at Dachcom.ch: Cris Almer (AD), Röne Bertschi (consulting/strategy), Otto Gmeiner (overall responsibility). Production: Habegger.
 

For expectant parents and young families, the health insurance company is offering a year's supply of Pampers free of charge when they switch insurers. With this campaign, ÖKK wants to emphasize its reputation as a family-friendly insurance company. The four Advico subjects will be used primarily in print, online and at trade fairs.

Responsible at ÖKK: Mario Theus (Market Private and Corporate Clients, Member of the Executive Board), Venanzi Vincenz (Head of Marketing Communications), Cornelia Enzinger (Project Manager Media). Responsible at Advico Y&R: Dominik Oberwiler, Martin Stulz (CD), Lukas Wietlisbach (AD), Julia Brandstätter, Avsar Yildiz, Fabian Küchler (text), Christoph Schwarz, Ramun Knapp (consulting).

Now Pope Benedikft XVI is also going offline on Twitter after his resignation. Next Thursday, the account of the head of the Catholic Church in the short message service is to be closed. According to SDA, this was reported by Radio Vatican on Friday. The Pope twitter started on December 12. Since then, some 2.5 million people have followed the short messages, with around 1.5 million users reportedly following him on his English Twitter channel alone. Next, there were already plans to tweet the messages in Chinese. So far, the holy Getwitter has already been distributed in German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic and Latin. Radio Vatican knows why the account is now to be closed. It seems inconceivable to continue such a popular and powerful means of communication when the Holy See is vacant, the radio station reported, according to SDA. According to the report, Benedict XVI will publish his last post on Twitter next Wednesday.

After the many derisive comments that reached the pope after the opening of his Twitter account, this step was controversial within the church. Whether his successor will also tweet or prefers to hide behind sacred walls is thus left up to him. (uma)

Teaser image: Twitter.com

The renunciation of too technical gimmicks is to reflect the leitmotif Terra Vite Vita (Earth. Vine. Life), the agency said in a statement. Both websites now appear in the corporate design that the agency developed and established for the Bindella ventures. The websites were fundamentally relaunched with the content management framework Typo3 CMS.

Within the framework of the relaunch, The Gate Communication also Bindella Società Agricola website and completely redesigned by Dotpulse. The website appears in the same design as the Swiss corporate website and is available in three language versions: German, Italian and English.

The Gate Communication took care of concept, creation, design. Web design and web programming were done by Dotpulse. Editorial responsibility lies with the Bindella business branches.

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In her main job, the 50-year-old lawyer is chairwoman of the Bern-Mittelland arbitration authority. She previously worked as a lawyer and before that she was the central secretary of the journalistic professional association Impressum. She has been a member of the UBI since 2004. This was announced by the UBI in a press release on Friday.

Carine Egger succeeds Regula Bähler, who stepped down from the UBI at the end of 2012. Bähler, a lawyer and former television and print journalist, had held the position for nine years. She also headed the authority for a longer period due to the illness and death of the then UBI President Denis Barrelet.

The UBI is an independent supervisory authority that deals with complaints against radio and television broadcasts and is chaired by Roger Blum. Its members work on a part-time basis.
 

Niethammer will take up his position at Radio 1 on March 1. Santoro worked at Radio 1 for over five years.

By developing a modular system that can be adapted to seasonal stagings, a promotion with an entertainment character was created for visitors, the agency said in a statement Friday. The first implementation took place to match the Coca-Cola Polar Bears campaign.

The app was developed in collaboration with N3xd Software Studios. It complies with the latest high-resolution standards, the agency said in a press release on Friday. It breaks new ground in the world of digital media and further expands the online offering.

"Sides of bread" is a new app with short stories and serialized stories for in-between. Readers can discover five stories a week from five different prominent writers as well as up-and-coming authors. The app will be available in the App Store from summer 2013.

The aim of the newly founded division is to make it possible to track the trend toward increased electronic media use combined across online and offline media, as Goldbach Audience writes in a statement on Friday. This will allow the company to offer advertisers coverage of the entire audience journey. As with the video and mobile network founded in 2012, the first priority is added content value for customers and agencies as well as simple handling.

The cross-screen team is headed by Raffael Huber, who already worked for Goldbach Media, then IP Multimedia, in various functions from 2007 to 2009. Huber, who studied and graduated in journalism (major), economics and sociology (minors) at the University of Zurich, then moved to Swiss Television, where he most recently headed the sponsorship department.