- Ringier
Infobox_Company
company_name = Ringier Group
company_type = Stock Corporation
company_
foundation = 1833
industry = Media
num_employees = 7016 (2007)
revenue = profit CHF 1458.4 million (2007)
operating_income =
key_people = Michael Ringier, Chairman
Martin Werfeli, CEO
location = flagicon|CHZürich, Switzerland
homepage = [http://www.ringier.com Ringier's Corporate Website]
[Cite web
title = Ringier AG, an international media enterprise.
accessdate = 2007-08-22
url = http://www.ringier.com/index.cfm?id=3476&rub=351] |Ringier AG is the largest media corporation in
Switzerland founded inZofingen and based inZürich . It publishes severalnewspaper s andmagazine s in both German and French. It has a yearly income of approximately 1.1 billion CHF with profits around 55.6 million and over 6,000 employees.Gerhard Schröder (Social Democratic Party of Germany ), the former German chancellor, works as an advisor for international political affairs for Michael Ringier since January 2006. [Cite web
title = World Briefing | Europe: Germany: New Job For Schrˆder - New York Times
accessdate = 2007-08-22
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D91731F935A15752C1A9639C8B63]The owners of the company are Evelyn Lingg-Ringier, Annette Ringier and Michael Ringier.
The Board of Director is made up of: [Cite web
title = Ringier AG, an international media enterprise.
accessdate = 2007-08-22
url = http://www.ringier.com/index.cfm?rub=176]* Michael Ringier, chairman of the board
* Dr Uli Sigg, vice-chairman. Honorary member of the China-Switzerland Chamber of Commerce, which he founded in 1980, he served as ambassador in China as well.
* Oscar Frei, president ofInfront Sports & Media AG in Zug, the international sports marketing company that handles the broadcasting of theFIFA World Cup and employs more than 80 people and has additional offices in Kreuzlingen (Switzerland), Ipswich (United Kingdom) and Helsinki (Finland).
* Jan O. Froshaug, ex-director of the Scandinavian media group Egmont, also active in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, etc.
* Dr Hans-Olaf Henkel, ex-president of the German Federation of Industry (BDI), president of IBM Europe and presently a member of numerous Supervisory Boards, such asIBM Deutschland, AUDI AG and Continental AG as well as co-founder of the German-Japan Initiative, for which he was highly awarded by the Japanese Government and other organizations. He is also Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Industriebank AG (IKB) and took on a Visiting Professorship at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is also Senator of the "Max-Planck-Gesellschaft", as well as of the "Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", two leading institutions promoting scientific research in Germany . He received the Cicero-Rednerpreis Prize 2001.Publications
In Switzerland, in German:
*Blick andSonntags-Blick
*Betty Bossi Zeitung
* Bolero
* Cicero
* edelweiss
*Gesundheit Sprechstunde
*Glückspost
*heute
*Schweizer Illustrierte In Switzerland, in French:
*L'Hebdo
*L'Illustré
*TV8
*Le Temps In Switzerland, in Italian:
*Il Caffè In
Romania :
*Evenimentul Zilei
*Libertatea
* Capital
* Compact
* TV Mania
*TV Satelit
*Unica
*Bravo
*Bravo Girl
*Bolero
*Libertatea Pentru Femei
*Lumea Femeilor In
Hungary :
*Népszabadság
*Blikk
*Vasárnapi Blikk
*Blikk Nök
*Nemzeti Sport
*Képes Sport
*IM
*IM Style
*hot!
*Bravo
*Bravo Girl
*Tina
*Buci Maci In the
Czech Republic :
*24 hodin
*Aha!
*Blesk
*Blesk TV Magazin
*Nedělní Blesk
*Nedělní Sport
* Sport
* abc
*Blesk pro ženy
*Blesk Hobby
*Blesk Zdravi
*Reflex
*Sport Magazin In
Slovakia :
*Nový čas
*Nový čas Víkend
*Nový čas Nedeľa
*Nový čas pre ženy
*Nový čas Ľudia
*Život
*Eva
*Rebecca
* InIn
Serbia :
* "Blic" (daily)
* "Blic nedelje "
* "24 sata" (daily)
* "Alo! " (daily)
* "Blic žena " (weekly)
* "Blic Puls " (weekly)In
Germany :*
Cicero
*Monopol In
Ukraine :
*Blick In
China :
*City Weekend
*Betty's Kitchen
*Industry Sourcing References
External links
* [http://www.ringier.com Ringier Group website]
** [http://www.ringier.ch Ringier Switzerland]
** [http://www.ringier.ro Ringier Romania]
** [http://www.ringier.hu Ringier Hungary]
** [http://www.ringier.cz Ringier Czech Republic]
** [http://www.ringier.sk Ringier Slovakia]
** [http://www.ringier.com.cn Ringier China]
** [http://www.ringierpacific.com Ringier Pacific]
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