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|CH Zürich, 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 in Zofingen and based in Zürich. It publishes several newspapers and magazines 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 of Infront Sports & Media AG in Zug, the international sports marketing company that handles the broadcasting of the FIFA 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 as IBM 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 and Sonntags-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
* In

In 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]