Trade press takes over IT publisher Compress

Fachpresse Zürich, a subsidiary of Vogel Business Medien, is taking over the Compress Information Group as of January 1, 2007. The company, which is based in Thalwil, employs around 25 people and publishes the specialist IT titles InfoWeek and IT Reseller. In addition, Compress will once again be organizing the specialist conference at Zurich's Orbit-iEX, the Swiss IT trade fair, from next year. The Würzburg-based media company Vogel Business Medien is already heavily involved in IT communication, including with the publications IT-Business, the home entertainment publisher CyPress and the joint venture Vogel Burda Communications, the publisher of the leading German user magazine Chip.
The Compress Information Group will continue to operate as an independent publishing house in the future and consistently expand its existing titles in print and online form, the company announced on Monday. The founder and publisher Michael von Babo is leaving the company. Ursula Bettio, who has been with the Compress Information Group since 1989 and has been responsible for the publishing management of InfoWeek for the past five years, will be the sole managing director as of January 1, 2007.