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Swiss free paper to concentrate on urban areas

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:46:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - 20 Minutes, recently merged with Matin Bleu, will concentrate its distribution channels on cities and the Lake Geneva region belt as part of cost-cutting measures. The free newspaper will stop using boxes in outlying areas and reduce the number of them in smaller villages in the region in order to place [...]

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Edipresse to lay off 100 as Swiss media industry outlook continues bleak

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:55:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Edipresse, the largest media company in French-speaking Switzerland, announced Friday 9 October that it will cut nearly 10 percent of its workforce: 100 jobs, with half in its print units, some 30 journalists’ positions and the rest in production. The company has 1,124 full-time equivalent positions in Switzerland. Half of its [...]

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Swiss print newspapers’ circulations inch up

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:54:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich/Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss newspapers’ print versions are seeing their circulations rise, albeit a slight 0.6 percent. The most recent figures from the Remp survey, done by the Swiss advertising media’s independent research organization, shows that 92.4% of Swiss people over age 14 read a newspaper “more or less regularly,” without defining the frequency. [...]

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Economic crisis keeps the collections office busy

Jillian Hudson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:32:11 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – The number of debts sent for collection increased 13 percent in the first three months of 2009 in Geneva, Olivier Chollet of the Geneva Collections Bureau told 20 Minutes. People are under more pressure to keep up with their bills, the newspaper quotes Pierre-François Unger, the canton’s Economy and [...]

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Tamedia, country’s second largest publisher, sees 30% profits drop

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:43:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Tamedia, which is scheduled to buy out the Swiss business of Edipresse if the competition commission approves the deal, has published less than rosy results for 2008: a 30 percent fall in profits, to CHF105.8 million. The company’s sales rose 21 percent to CHF895.7m, but this was due mainly to absorbing [...]

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