McCann-Erickson's new leadership

McCann-Erickson is giving itself a new management structure in Switzerland.The advertising agency with offices in Zurich and Geneva, the media agency Universal McCann and other subsidiaries will now be combined in the umbrella organization McCann-Erickson WorldGroup Switzerland.Its Chairman and CEO will be Heinz Flückiger, in addition to his office as Chairman of the advertising agency and member of the European Executive Board. The agency will have a new CEO in Edi Andrist, previously Vice Chairman and CD Switzerland. Erwin Brunner, Managing Director of McCann-Erickson, Zurich, is appointed Vice Chairman. Urs Jaermann, previously Deputy Managing Director in Zurich, is now Director of Business Development and Strategic Planning for Zurich and Geneva and a member of the Executive Board Switzerland. According to McCann-Erickson, the new structure will enable the company to offer its clients a "one-stop strategy" for integrated communications services. (sm)