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G+J Bundles Eastern European Publishing Business In Warsaw
Hamburg, January 30, 2006
G+J´s International Magazines division is bundling Gruner + Jahr´s publishing businesses in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Based in Warsaw, Mario Husten will manage the publishing activities in the region, including Poland and Russia, as President Central Eastern Europe as of February 2006. After establishing joint ventures in Greece and the Adriatic region and the launch of the international edition of "Geo," the new management structure creates the precondition for further growth, according to Gruner + Jahr. The goal is to enter new markets—also through partnerships and acquisitions—in addition to the expansion of the international concept and brand transfer. Mario Husten will continue to be in charge of the development of new
markets in his position as Executive Vice President. The trained FAZ
business journalist joined G+J in 1994 as an assistant to the management
board; in 1996 he took over the management of the Slovak newspaper
"Novy Cas." Starting 1998 he headed the entire international newspaper
business of G+J (Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia), and joined
the G+J magazine division International in the beginning of 2004 as
Executive Vice President. Michael Voß will support Husten as CFO in
addition to his function as Managing Director of the Greece G+J
subsidiary Daphne. Torsten-Jörn Klein, G+J Executive Board member
in charge of International Magazines, commented: "Bundling our
publishing activities in Central and Eastern Europe underscores
the importance of this region for G+J´s growth strategy. Mario
Husten´s change to Warsaw documents the success and importance
of G+J´s activities in Poland."
In addition, there will be change at the top of G+J Russia: the
former Director of the FAZ book publisher, Christina Eibl, succeeds
Olaf Hengerer as Managing Director G+J Russia in Moscow. Hengerer
will leave G+J at the end of September 2006 at his own request and
on excellent mutual terms. After her studies, Christina Eibl
worked as a scientific assistant at the Kurtschatov Institute for
Nuclear Research in Moscow for two years. In 1997 she joined the
F.A.Z. Institute in Frankfurt as an editor. In the following years
she filled various management positions in the company. Since 1999
Christina Eibl has been Director of the book division, and since 2002
Publishing Director Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch. Torsten-Jörn Klein:
"Christina Eibl is a distinguished publishing manager who is also
very familiar with the Russian culture and language. I am very
pleased to welcome her to our team and wish her the best of luck
and success. Olaf Hengerer has strongly pushed ahead our business
on the difficult Russian market over the past few years. I thank
him for his excellent work and wish him all the best in the future."
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