TImedia: Ticino publishers join forces in a holding company
Publishers in Ticino have founded the TImedia holding company to acquire stakes in other Ticino-based media companies, promote the multimedia nature of their offerings, and leverage further synergies. Fabio Soldati will serve as president, and Filippo Lombardi, a Ticino-based CVP member of the Council of States, will serve as CEO.
Ticino publishers want to join forces and have founded a holding company for this purpose. TImedia Holding includes the publishers of Corriere del Ticino and Giornale del Popolo as well as the Lombardi family. The latter controls the television station TeleTicino. According to the communiqué, the holding company intends to acquire shares in Ticino media companies and establish support companies. Synergies are to be exploited in administration and operations management.
TImedia also aims at "innovative multimedia" that includes print, radio, TV, web and mobile telephony. The holding company is being formed around a "hard core of five publishers" who have long worked together - Corriere del Ticino, Giornale del Popolo, TeleTicino, Radio3i and the online portal Ticinonews.ch. The new holding company has a capital of three million francs. Of this, Corriere contributed 46 percent of the capital, Giornale nine percent and the Lombardi family 45 percent. The Chairman is Fabio Soldati, and the CEO will be Ticino's CVP Council of States member Filippo Lombardi.
TImedia also aims at "innovative multimedia" that includes print, radio, TV, web and mobile telephony. The holding company is being formed around a "hard core of five publishers" who have long worked together - Corriere del Ticino, Giornale del Popolo, TeleTicino, Radio3i and the online portal Ticinonews.ch. The new holding company has a capital of three million francs. Of this, Corriere contributed 46 percent of the capital, Giornale nine percent and the Lombardi family 45 percent. The Chairman is Fabio Soldati, and the CEO will be Ticino's CVP Council of States member Filippo Lombardi.
