SVIK Rating 2010: Communicator of the Year
The Swiss Association for Internal Communication SVIK presented the SVIK Awards for the best employee magazines and the best internal communicator of the year in Zurich. Some Swiss magazines are also among the best in Europe.
The SVIK awards the "Golden Pen" in five categories. Both print and online media are honored. The expert jury awards a special prize to the internal communicator of the year.
The special "Internal Communicator of the Year" award goes to Hans Hess, Chairman and CEO of Comet Holding in Flamatt, member of the ETH Board and Vice-President of Swissmen. Hess has an extremely positive attitude towards people and a keen sense of the cycles in the company and in the markets. According to the award jury, he has managed to get a Swiss technology company back on track, preserve high-quality jobs in Switzerland and give the organization the necessary boost.
This year's winner in the employee publication category is the Coop Forte magazine. According to the award jury, the publication presents topics in a professional and original way. In addition, the magazine offers an above-average number of dialog incentives. The Coop Forte magazine took first place in the international Grand Prix of the Federation of European Editors Associations FEIEA, which took place at the same time, in the employee magazine category. In the front cover category, the SVIK Golden Pen went to the KPMG magazine KPeople. The best text was an article on whistleblowing in Helsana Insurance's "info". Swiss Post won the Golden Feather in the electronic internal communication category with its intranet; its intranet solution was also awarded first place in the Grand Prix FEIEA. The SBB newspaper also achieved a top European ranking with 1st place in the staff newspaper category and Swiss Life's Life netTV came 3rd in the audiovisual media category.
The SVIK has been rating communication media for over 60 years. It is supported by a jury of 16 independent experts.
The special "Internal Communicator of the Year" award goes to Hans Hess, Chairman and CEO of Comet Holding in Flamatt, member of the ETH Board and Vice-President of Swissmen. Hess has an extremely positive attitude towards people and a keen sense of the cycles in the company and in the markets. According to the award jury, he has managed to get a Swiss technology company back on track, preserve high-quality jobs in Switzerland and give the organization the necessary boost.
This year's winner in the employee publication category is the Coop Forte magazine. According to the award jury, the publication presents topics in a professional and original way. In addition, the magazine offers an above-average number of dialog incentives. The Coop Forte magazine took first place in the international Grand Prix of the Federation of European Editors Associations FEIEA, which took place at the same time, in the employee magazine category. In the front cover category, the SVIK Golden Pen went to the KPMG magazine KPeople. The best text was an article on whistleblowing in Helsana Insurance's "info". Swiss Post won the Golden Feather in the electronic internal communication category with its intranet; its intranet solution was also awarded first place in the Grand Prix FEIEA. The SBB newspaper also achieved a top European ranking with 1st place in the staff newspaper category and Swiss Life's Life netTV came 3rd in the audiovisual media category.
The SVIK has been rating communication media for over 60 years. It is supported by a jury of 16 independent experts.
