May 14, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Axel Springer, one of Germany’s leading media groups, is about to make history. When its digital division replaces its newspaper division as the group’s biggest revenue-generator in the second quarter, Axel Springer will be the first multimedia group in Germany to rid itself of its dependence on print to become a digital-driven media group.The group released its financial results for the first quarter recently....
April 20, 2012
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By Christo Volschenk
Poland-based Allegro Group, a subsidiary of MIH Internet Europe, which is in turn a subsidiary of South Africa-born media group Naspers, is in the midst of a restructuring process, which recently saw Allegro CEO Grzegorz Wójcik being moved to the position of head of corporate relations at MIH Internet Europe and Hein Pretorius, Amsterdam-based CEO of MIH Internet Europe, assuming the role of CEO of Allegro Group on top of his job in Amsterdam....
April 5, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Swiss media group Tamedia released impressive financial results for the year 2011 in Zürich today. Group revenue jumped by 48 percent from CHF745 million ($820 million U.S.) in 2010 to CHF1,105 million in 2011. The EBITDA margin climbed from 19.6 percent to 20.4 percent in the same period, the company said. The digital division (dominated by classified platforms) put in an equally impressive performance.Revenue...
By Christo Volschenk
Christian Unger (44) handed his job as CEO of Ringier, Switzerland’s biggest media group, over to a colleague Marc Walder (46) and left the company. A Ringier media release said Unger “will be accepting new responsibilities”. A spokesman in Ringier’s communication department confirmed Unger will be looking for new responsibilities outside Ringier. He also said he can’t be more specific, because “Unger doesn...
March 20, 2012
The market leader in online recruiting in Switzerland Jobs.ch reports a positive past year with growing customer orders and audience numbers. According to the press release in 2011 jobs.ch AG had customer orders of CHF 55.6 million (US-$ 60.75 million), which represents an increase of 54 percent compared to...
March 1, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
According to Cornel Müller, head of marketing and business development at X28AG, Switzerland recently got its “first and only” semantic job search engine. It’s called Jobagent.ch and it uses the same semantic search technology as Jobs.ch, Switzerland’...
February 27, 2012
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