GenevaLunch » Edipresse http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:27:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Edipresse managing director steps down http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/edipresse-managing-director-steps-down/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/edipresse-managing-director-steps-down/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:05:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58543 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Tibère Adler has resigned as managing director of the Edipresse Group, French-speaking Switzerland’s largest media company, at the end of June. Adler and the company say that he is leaving after 22 years with the company, on excellent terms: he will continue to handle mandates for Tamedia, which bought out Edipresse, with [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/edipresse-managing-director-steps-down/feed/ 0 Swiss media shakeout speeds up, in face of sharp print declines http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/08/swiss-media-shakeout-speeds-up-in-face-of-sharp-print-declines/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/08/swiss-media-shakeout-speeds-up-in-face-of-sharp-print-declines/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:09:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56333 GenevaLunch.com Merger approved by Competition Commission, but Tamedia recently accused of “abuse” Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Tamedia and Edipresse, two of Switzerland’s largest print and online media companies, will celebrate their marriage sooner than expected. The complete merger was expected in 2013, but the companies now say they will merge this year, when Tamedia’s purchase of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/08/swiss-media-shakeout-speeds-up-in-face-of-sharp-print-declines/feed/ 0 Edipresse eases out of the red ink http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/28/edipresse-eases-out-of-the-red-ink/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/28/edipresse-eases-out-of-the-red-ink/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:31:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=47752 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Edipresse, the parent company of the largest press group in French-speaking Switzerland, is back in the black, the company reports 28 September. It had net profits of CHF20 million for the first half of 2010, compared to a loss for the first half of 2009 of CHF1 million. Turnover was up [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/28/edipresse-eases-out-of-the-red-ink/feed/ 0 Edipresse ends 2009 in red as media crisis continues http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/26/edipresse-ends-2009-in-red-as-media-crisis-continues/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/26/edipresse-ends-2009-in-red-as-media-crisis-continues/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:58:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=40818 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The cheering news for Swiss media last week that advertising sales were up slightly in March was wiped out Monday morning 26 April by news that Edipresse, the largest media company in French-speaking Switzerland, ended 2009 in the red. The company, which has operations in several countries outside Switzerland, posted a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/26/edipresse-ends-2009-in-red-as-media-crisis-continues/feed/ 0 Swiss newspaper prices go up http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/23/swiss-newspaper-prices-go-up/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/23/swiss-newspaper-prices-go-up/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:07:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34338 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The cost of subscribing to a Swiss daily newspaper will rise in 2010, between 1 and 11 percent, to keep in step with increased costs and lower advertising revenues. The rise is even greater in reality in some cases such as the NZZ, when a mid-2009 increase is taken into account, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/23/swiss-newspaper-prices-go-up/feed/ 0 Le Matin staff turn out to support photographers as layoffs loom http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/04/le-matin-staff-turn-out-to-support-photographers-as-layoffs-loom/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/04/le-matin-staff-turn-out-to-support-photographers-as-layoffs-loom/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:14:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=30939 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Staff at Le Matin protested in front of the Edipresse tower in Lausanne Tuesday in solidarity with photographers at the newspaper, particularly hard hit by the layoffs that the company is planning. Edipresse is the largest private media company in French-speaking Switzerland. It announced 9 October that it would lay off [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/04/le-matin-staff-turn-out-to-support-photographers-as-layoffs-loom/feed/ 0 Unions throw down the gauntlet to Edipresse http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/30/unions-throw-down-the-gauntlet-to-edipresse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/30/unions-throw-down-the-gauntlet-to-edipresse/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:32:00 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30675 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two of the three unions representing workers at Edipresse, French-speaking Switzerland’s largest media group, have told the company to start serious negotiations about the conditions for layoffs or face possible industrial action. The unions representing the print and the technical workers rejected the company’s layoff terms, Wednesday 28 October, and demanded [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/30/unions-throw-down-the-gauntlet-to-edipresse/feed/ 0 Edipresse to lay off 100 as Swiss media industry outlook continues bleak http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/09/edipresse-to-lay-off-100-as-swiss-media-industry-outlook-continues-bleak/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/09/edipresse-to-lay-off-100-as-swiss-media-industry-outlook-continues-bleak/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:55:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=29570 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/09/edipresse-to-lay-off-100-as-swiss-media-industry-outlook-continues-bleak/feed/ 2 Competition authority oks Tamedia takeover of Edipresse http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/17/competition-authority-oks-tamedia-takeover-of-edipresse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/17/competition-authority-oks-tamedia-takeover-of-edipresse/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:42:11 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=27948 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Competition Commission has given its blessing to the proposed sale of Edipresse’s Swiss operations to Zurich-based Tamedia on the grounds that competition is not threatened by the takeover. Edipresse, Switzerland’s third-largest media company, is based in Lausanne and its operations in Switzerland are limited to the French-speaking area. Tamedia [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/17/competition-authority-oks-tamedia-takeover-of-edipresse/feed/ 0 Edipresse, main Geneva area publisher, moves into the red http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/edipresse-main-geneva-area-publisher-moves-into-the-red/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/edipresse-main-geneva-area-publisher-moves-into-the-red/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:56:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27735 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Edipresse, whose Swiss operations are scheduled to be sold to Tamedia in Zurich in 2010 if the deal is approved by the federal government, has posted a loss of CHF8.9 million for the first half of 2009, citing the continuing overall weak economy and lower advertising revenue. The company notes that [...]

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