Ringier

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Ringier Group

Type	Stock Corporation
Founded	1833
Headquarters	Zürich, Switzerland
Key people	Michael Ringier, Chairman Martin Werfeli, CEO
Industry	Media
Revenue	▲ CHF 1458.4 million (2007)
Employees	7016 (2007)
Website	Ringier's Corporate Website

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.^[1]

The owners of the company are Evelyn Lingg-Ringier, Annette Ringier and Michael Ringier.

The Board of Director is made up of:^[2]

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.