Ringier

The Ringier Holding AG, based in Zofingen is the largest private media companies in Switzerland.

  • 6.1 joint venture with Axel Springer in Eastern Europe
  • 6.2 Ringier Germany GmbH

Print Publications

Ringier publishes numerous newspapers and magazines.

German Switzerland

  • View, Sunday glance ( tabloids )
  • Blick am Abend ( free newspaper, replacement of the existing free newspaper today )
  • Bolero ( women's magazine )
  • Cash ( online economic and financial platform )
  • GlücksPost ( women's magazine )
  • Love of country (since 2012)
  • Swiss Illustrated ( Illustrated )
  • SI Style ( Illustrated )
  • SPORT ( Sport Magazine )
  • TVtäglich (in collaboration with Tamedia )
  • Zurich Energy ( 51% interest, remaining 49% of NRJ Group)
  • Energy Bern
  • Energy Basel

Romandie

  • Edelweiss ( women's magazine )
  • L' Hebdo ( news magazine )
  • L' illustré ( Illustrated )
  • TV8 ( TV )
  • Montres Passion
  • Le Temps

Germany

  • Cicero ( political magazine, since 2004)
  • Monopoly ( Art Magazine, since 2006)

Rest of the world

Ringier publishes numerous daily newspapers, tabloid newspapers and magazines in China, Romania, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Vietnam. Already in 1990, Ringier expanded to Eastern Europe.

Electronic Media

Ringier holds a 50 % stake Sat.1 Switzerland and with 30 % of PresseTV. Sat.1 Switzerland exudes a program window with the items Move- in and super single. PresseTV has its own broadcasting license for the program window on the public broadcasters SF zwei and SF info. Ringier supplies, among other items, the cash - TV, cash Talk and health consultation to PresseTV.

Focus of Ringier activities in the online environment is the run as a standalone product media portal Blick.ch. Furthermore Ringier offers on the Internet next to the Business Portal Cash.ch also more sites of their own newspapers, magazines and television broadcasts to. With the purchase of media swiss group, Geschenkidee.ch and photo Nekretnine in Croatia Ringier has greatly expanded its online presence. The emphasis is increasingly placed on pure sales platforms. So Ringier is involved in qualipet.ch and etrips.ch in joint ventures, which pet supplies, sell respectively trips.

Ringier School of Journalism

Ringier operates since 1974 an in-house School of Journalism, supported by the Hans Ringier Foundation. Chairman of the Board Frank A. Meyer, since January 2011, Hannes Britschgi is head of the school. Earlier guides were Werner Meier (1974-1978), Franz C. Widmer (1979-1986), Manuel Isler (1987-1997), Fridolin Luchsinger (from 1998) and Jürg Lehmann (from 2009). The school is located in the Villa Romans stockpile in Zofingen. The duration of training is 16 months. One third of the training takes place in Zofingen, two-thirds to various editors of daily newspapers to television. Due to the poor situation on the labor market, the school will be used until further notice only for internal training. The courses are currently being advertised only every two to three years.

Other activities

The company has printing plants in Switzerland, Eastern Europe and Asia.

An ER Publishing, which holds 89.4 % stake in Le Temps, Ringier is also an interest of 50 %. The other 50 % is owned by Edipresse group.

Ringier holds among other minority holdings in Tour Operators Good News Productions ( 48%), the Swiss pay-TV Tele club ( 33%), at the Swiss media database SMD (33 %), and direct marketing company Schober Direct Media (20 %).

Since January 2006, the German former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder advises the Company. This gave Chairman Michael Ringier on 24 November 2005.

At the beginning of 2012 Ringier founded a joint venture with the Bank plus two under the existing umbrella brand cash, the online financial and economic information, online financial services and online banking offers. In this company the complete the direct customer business banking plus two was outsourced.

Company figures

The Ringier Group in 2009 achieved a turnover of 1.296 billion Swiss francs, of which 825.3 million francs ( 61 per cent ) in Switzerland, CHF 418.8 million (34 percent) in Central and Eastern Europe and 52 million francs ( 5 percent ) in Asia. The group employs 7448 people, of which 3082 in Switzerland.

History

The story began in 1833, when Johann Rudolf Ringier founded a printing press in Zofingen. After about 69 years, Ringier merged with Francke & Co to ​​United book and Steindruckerei Ringier & Co. 11 years after the merger of the Swiss magazine was founded in 1921 L' illustré and 1922 Ringier entertainment leaves. On the wave of success of the globin Ringier created the cartoon characters Ringgi and ZOFI and brought to 1994 a children's book series out. The first Swiss tabloid view was launched in 1959. After 10 years, even the first Sunday newspaper in Switzerland came on the market. The Ringier Publishing House in Zurich was opened in 1978.

Nine years later, in 1987, the print Times - Ringier was founded in Hong Kong and opened. In 1989 and 1990, activity began in the Czech Republic and Romania. The broadcasts Cash-TV spotlighting, Motor Show and Health Consultation launched in 1993, two years before the broadcast PresseTV. In the same year activities started in Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Vietnam. The activities in Poland and Bulgaria were set success after 3 years. In 1999, the 50 % stake in the TV channel Sat.1 Switzerland.

Half of the shares of Betty Bossi were sold to the United Coop Group in 2001. The first in the state of Serbia began only in 2004, but in 2008 Ringier takes over 100% of the publishing business. On 15 May 2006 the company launched after a long time the first evening newspaper in Switzerland, the free newspaper Today which in the three major cities of Basel, Bern and Zurich is ready in boxes from 16 clock. On 2 June 2008, the new free newspaper glance appeared in the evening, instead of today. In June 2007, the business daily cash was discontinued after 18 years. The Ukrainian newspaper Blik was sold a year ago. In the same year Ringier celebrated its 175th anniversary. As of December 21, 2012 assumes Coop 's 50 percent share of Ringier AG at the Betty Bossi and thus holds 100 percent.

His physical image Archives in 2009, the State Archives of Aargau passed Ringier.

In the next few years Ringier plans to move his business from the print media more and more on entertainment. The beginning makes from the spring of 2010, the ticket sales.

Joint venture with Axel Springer in Eastern Europe

On 23 March 2010, Ringier AG and the third-largest German media company Axel Springer AG announced their intention to form a joint stock holding company with headquarters in Zurich, are involved in both companies to 50 per cent. Axel Springer AG is making the joint venture a cash contribution in the amount of 50 million euros and also pay about 125 million euros compensation to Ringier. In this holding company which will go in three to five years on the stock market, the Eastern European activities of the two groups will be pooled. The Axel Springer AG brings the business of its subsidiaries in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary, Ringier its business in Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. The two companies have in Eastern Europe together over 100 print titles (34 newspapers, 73 magazines) and more than 70 online offerings on the market (as of March 2010). With the joint venture is thus produced at a stroke one of the largest media companies in Eastern Europe, saw this on the whole area clear market leader in tabloids and one of the largest providers will be in the magazine segment. It would, based on figures for 2009 to a turnover of about 601 million Swiss francs ( 414 million euros ) and EBITDA of £ 89 million (62 million euro ) and a number of around 4,800 employees. CEO of the holding is Florian Fels, who joined only at the beginning of 2010 from his post as CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of Axel Springer Polska to Ringier and in the group management CEO of the new Division Central Europe was. Chairman of the Board of Directors with equal representation is Ralph Büchi, President of Axel Springer International. 2002 Axel Springer AG had been accused of an interest in buying the Ringier AG. July 1, 2007 Springer had acquired the German-language TV program magazines TELE, TV4 and TV2 from Ringier, the Swiss subsidiary, Jean Frey AG.

Ringier Germany GmbH

In the 1970s, Ringier tried to gain a foothold in Germany. The Swiss Ringier AG bought the Munich Heering -Verlag, calling the new company " Ringier Germany GmbH". By publishing Heering, who was active primarily in the photo scene with books and magazines, Ringier acquired included stock photo magazine and the dealer magazine photo industry. From Munich Luftfahrtverlag Walter Zuerl Ringier bought also the title Fliegermagazin and hang gliders magazine. There were also the title Alpine and later nature, the magazine of Horst Stern. Managing wolf was Prüter, the publisher Michael Ringier had met during his time as an intern at Gruner Jahr in Hamburg. New developments of Ringier Germany were the travel magazine founded in 1995 GLOBO and developed under the car and aviation journalist Peter Groschupf Customer Magazine BMW Magazine. Ringier Germany most recently employed nearly 100 employees and produced a total of eight monthly magazines plus special issues. In 1988 the company moved to new premises to Neuperlach, the former Heering -Verlag house in the Ortler road has become a residential house.

In 2001, two years after the death Prüters and under the leadership of his successor, former Publishing Director Bodo Meinsen, Ringier gave up his business in Germany. The company Ringier Germany GmbH was dissolved. Most titles ( Fliegermagazin, hang gliding magazine, photo magazine and others) were sold to the Hamburg Top Special Verlag, a Springer - daughter, from which, after a merger with the year - publisher of Jahr Top Special Verlag was. The title Alpin and nature have been taken over and continued by editors, GLOBO has been set, nature appears today as a natural cosmos in the South-West German publishing house Stuttgart.

The contract for the BMW Magazine in 1996 after a pitch that the Creative Publishing GmbH won (founded by the former chief editor Peter Groschupf and Ringier - Germany - publishing director Günter Forster), after a legal dispute with the BMW boss Bernd Pischetsrieder the signed contract was declared invalid, went to the corporate publishing department of the Hamburg publishing house Hoffmann and Campe. The hang gliders magazine is now called Fly and glide and appears as the Fliegermagazin in Jahr Top Special Verlag.

Ringier Publishing Berlin, editor of the magazine Cicero, though is also a subsidiary of Ringier, has nothing to do with the triggered Ringier Germany GmbH in Munich.

Documentation

  • Traces of time 175 years Ringier - patriarchs, press and profit. By Christian Kolbe at: DOK of Swiss Television of 5 May 2008 ( 40 minutes)
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