Bühler has been responsible for various film productions at Swiss Life over the past four years. On the one hand as a producer and on the other hand directly behind the camera or at the editing suite. This broad understanding of production and hands-on mentality is the best fit for Dpvideoproduction, a statement said. "Sandra is the perfect addition to our agile team, bringing with her a lot of experience from the corporate world," says managing director David Schildknecht CEO. The company will sharpen its profile and expand its corporate offering in the coming months, he said. Clients include Allianz Suisse, SRF and Migros.

As a result of the merger of AZ Medien with NZZ Regionalmedien as of October 1 to form CH Media, the company's results are strongly influenced by provisions and one-off costs, AZ Medien announced on Thursday.

The financial year is made up of the first three quarters of AZ Medien and 50 percent of the fourth quarter of CH Media. The Aargau-based media company had already posted a loss of CHF 1.6 million in the previous year.

Declining print markets and high investments in the diversification of the portfolio and the transformation of existing businesses would have contributed significantly to the negative operating result. Provisions for the forthcoming restructuring at CH Media also depressed the result.

The company cites the integration of the radio stations Radio 24 and Radio Argovia, the consolidation of the private TV station S1, and the integration of the news portal Watson into AZ Medien as reasons for the higher revenues.

The national TV business, newspaper printing and digital business also made positive contributions to sales. The equity ratio fell from 49 to 38 percent. At the end of September, AZ Medien had 847 full-time employees. (SDA)
 

The financial market platform, which is aimed at professional investors, now offers classification, analysis and opinion on what is happening on the financial markets. Three to five high-quality and carefully researched articles are published per day on Themarket.ch published. "Our subscribers can expect something from 'The Market' every day that they won't find anywhere else: an in-depth look at relevant investment topics, actionable ideas, behind-the-scenes looks at companies, analytical depth - in short, a broadening of horizons every day. We do without news and daily noise," explains Mark Dittli, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Market. 

Seven experienced financial journalists are responsible for the content: Mark Dittli, Andreas Kälin, Ruedi Keller, Gregor Mast, Sandro Rosa and Daniel Zulauf report from Zurich, Christoph Gisiger from the USA. 15 freelance writers support and enrich the platform. The editorial team is complemented by product manager Fabio Pasinetti and sales manager Ruedi Minger. 

"The Market" is a joint venture between the founding team and the NZZ Media Group. With this investment, the NZZ Media Group is expanding its existing business reporting with a product specifically aimed at investors. "We are delighted to be working with the founding team to launch a product that fills a gap in the digital business media landscape," said Felix Graf, CEO of NZZ Media Group. "The partnership-based entrepreneurial approach allows us to work with a team that has expertise in the financial markets and can give the product maximum attention. NZZ Media Group, in turn, has the appropriate system architecture on which 'The Market' is built, and our marketing team provides marketing support. In this way, we complement each other perfectly."

Maltech is the Swiss market leader for lifting platform technology and has been taking companies to the top for over 50 years. In addition to the rental of state-of-the-art lifting platforms, the specialists support their customers in the planning and implementation of their operations. Competent service and maintenance work as well as comprehensive training courses round off the wide range of services. Maltech is represented throughout Switzerland with over 120 employees, 28 rental stations, 8 service locations and 8 training centers.

Walder,Werber worked closely with Maltech to develop the brand positioning, create a brand story and completely revamp the visual identity for the successful traditional company. "From a lifting platform rental company to a complete service provider for rental, service and training": this was the basis for the creation of the new, concise image, which was implemented in all applications - from the image campaign to the internet portal with rental configurator and print communication to the brand staging in the space at its 28 locations. The new image strengthens the synergies within the company, which operates throughout Switzerland, and enables efficient, effective brand management across all channels.

In order to sensitize and inspire the entire team for the new path, the rebranding process was accompanied by an employer branding strategy - developed and implemented in co-creation with Maltech's management. The highlight: the big employee event in Bern as a "big bang" for the rebranding, including the launch of the Maltech app in the city cinema.

After working at Joiz, Admeira, Tamedia and most recently at the media agency Attackera, Claudio Marty, 31, joined Livesystems as Head of Business Development in April 2019. "The possibilities of digital out of home products in combination with the online news portal Nau are magic," Marty said in a press release. "Plus the close collaboration I will have with CCO Dragan Dojcinovic, CEO Yves Kilchenmann and the whole team."

"We are delighted to have Claudio Marty on board, a proven and experienced professional in the fields of online and programmatic advertising," says Dragan Dojcinovic, Chief Commercial Officer CCO at Livesystems. "He will play a key role in helping us to drive our offerings forward and bring new opportunities to the market."

Livesystems' sales team of over 30 people supports advertising customers and agencies across the entire product range of digital out-of-home advertising and online products. They are brought together under the umbrella of Livesystems Holding and include the news portal Nau, Passengertv, Gasstationtv and Cityscreen.

Tamedia's Board of Directors will propose a dividend of CHF 47.7 million at the shareholders' meeting on April 5, 2019. In contrast, the professional association Imprint will propose a four million lower dividend of CHF 43.7 million to the shareholders. The four million would roughly correspond to the amount that Tamedia, as the largest shareholder (30 percent), took from the reserves of the former SDA when it was merged with Keystone in 2018, Imprint wrote in a statement on Thursday. It is of the opinion that these funds, which were earned over decades by the employees of the former SDA, should flow back into journalism, it continues.

In addition to reinvestment in journalism, Imprint is also demanding that the amount be allocated to the social plans currently being drawn up by Tamedia. These should - for example in the case of Le Matin or  Annabelle - "to a level worthy of the prospering Tamedia company," the association demands. (hae)

The new communication agency Grip has taken over the communications mandate of Swiss Bankers Prepaid Services as of March 1, 2019. The assignment includes media and public relations in Switzerland as well as support in strategic social media projects. Furthermore, Grip will take editorial responsibility of the customer magazine Update take over and position the publication to meet today's needs.

"We are very pleased to have been able to convince Swiss Bankers of our financial services expertise as well as our experience in Customer & Brand Relations and welcome them to join us," Patrick Milo, Managing Partner of Grip, said in a statement.

In the course of its overall renovation until late summer 2020, the Kongresshaus Zürich will not only receive a fresh architectural appearance. On behalf of Kongresshaus Zürich AG, Partner & Partner is sharpening the positioning, developing a new brand world, revising the corporate identity and developing the communication strategy. The new appearance will be seen in the third quarter of 2019.
 

The #morethanhockey sponsorship series launched by Y&R Wunderman and PostFinance has been expanded to include three new sponsorship short films, following last year's successful social media campaign. This time, the spotlight is on the promotion of young talent.

The short films illustrate that the passion for ice hockey can be lived in different ways: A junior coach who has put his heart and soul into it for years. A young talent who pursues his dream with iron discipline and a group of parents who fill the stomachs of the fans and the youngsters' coffers with their cooking skills.
 

Sandro Tschuor, Group Account Director at Y&R Wunderman and former professional ice hockey player: "With this campaign, we succeeded in capturing the passion away from the limelight and giving athletes, relatives as well as fans a different perspective around the promotion of young talent. Only when everyone pulls together and works as a team can dreams be realized and goals achieved. Field hockey is just #morethanhockey."

This team approach is reflected in the campaign's approach. Thanks to the co-creation philosophy of Y&R Wunderman, experts from different fields - from strategy to creation to athletes - came together to achieve the optimum. 

As of April 01, 2019, Equinoxe became Westiform Digital. According to the announcement, the name change indicates the strategic direction: Full integration into the Westiform Group. The core competence of Westiform Digital lies in comprehensive consulting around digital solutions such as digital signage, business processes and workflow management. Through the uniform appearance, the family-owned company Westiform is positioning itself even more significantly as a complete solution provider in the target markets of the future. 

The Westiform Group used the past two years to integrate the Digital Solutions Competence Center into the group structure with a focus on optimal customer benefits. Customers benefit both from the comprehensive analog and digital industry know-how as well as through innovative full-service packages. The range of services extends from consulting and design to installation, operation, financing solutions and individualized service offerings. This proximity to customers enables constant market monitoring and corresponding expansion of the product and service portfolio. 

This is ultimately also reflected in the expansion of structures and resources in Freiburg: Since the takeover in 2017, not only the premises but also the personnel capacities and competencies have been continuously expanded in the Solar Tower. The goal is to continue the expansion to become one of the leading digital solutions integrators in the DACH region.
 

Solartower: The Westiform Digital site at Freiburg Central Station (D).

As already announced, the two divisions Tamedia Advertising and Goldbach Audience are launching a bundled advertising offering under the name "Tango Network". The name is a combination of Tamedia and Goldbach. As a result, customers can now reach their specific target groups with just one booking on more than 300 websites from the Tamedia and Goldbach network environment, according to a statement. These include leading platforms such as 20min.ch, 24heures.ch, Tagesanzeiger.ch, Fuw.ch, Faz.net, the sites of ProSiebenSat.1 and the RTL media group, as well as Bettybossi.ch, Wetter.com, Cineman.ch, Homegate.ch and Ricardo.ch.

"Thanks to our new display offering, all previously available targeting products from Tamedia Advertising and Goldbach combined can be projected to an even greater reach," explains Dominik Lämmler, Chief Network / Programmatic / Partner Relations at Tamedia. 

The Tango Network is to be continuously expanded with a broader product portfolio. A performance-based advertising product is planned for fall 2019. "We want to optimally cover the needs of our customers and continuously offer them even more reach and better targeting options. Our goal is to reach almost all Swiss Internet users in a premium environment with just one booking," says Stefan Wagner, Managing Director of Goldbach Audience. The Tango Network will be marketed by the existing sales teams of Tamedia Advertising and Goldbach Audience.   

Tobias Treichler works as Vice Director and Head of Marketing and Communication at St.Gallen-Lake Constance Tourism. His main tasks include marketing the city of St.Gallen and the St.Gallen-Lake Constance region in the local and long-distance markets. As a proven marketer with an Executive MBA, his professional passion, in addition to tourism, is online marketing as well as the omnipresent digitalization and trend analysis. As an enthusiastic snowboarder and biker, he spends his free time in the mountains to recharge his batteries for daily challenges, as was reported in a press release.