AZ and Sonntag gain a new Head of Advertising Market in Ronnie Hürlimann
Ronnie Hürlimann, 44, will become head of advertising for the Aargauer Zeitung and Sonntag effective August 1, 2008. The position is a new one at the AZ publishing house.
44-year-old Ronnie Hürlimann will become Head of Advertising Market of Aargauer Zeitung and Sonntag as of August 1, 2008. He will be responsible for the marketing and communication activities of the two newspapers in the advertising market and will coordinate advertising market development with Publicitas. The position of Head of Advertising Market will be newly created at the AZ publishing house. In his role, he will also support publishing director Christine Rennhard in analysis, strategy development, action planning and implementation, according to the press release issued on Wednesday. Hürlimann has been working in the cross-media division at AZ Medien since May 2007. In recent months, he has developed and been responsible for the "Event Platform" project. This project is nearing completion and Hürlimann will oversee it in parallel to his new role until AZ Medien's new online platform goes live in late summer and the central event unit goes live.
Before joining AZ Crossmedia in October 2006, Ronnie Hürlimann was Head of Advertising at Publicitas for Basler Zeitung Medien. Prior to that, he was Head of Publishing Business and Communications at the UD Medien Group (formerly Insider Verlag) in Lucerne from 2005 and 2006 and Publishing Director from 1996 to 2006. In the 1990s, he was Product Manager for various newspapers and newspaper combinations at the former ofa Orell Füssli Werbe AG in Lucerne.
