Professional milestones to date

Vogt-Schild Medien AG

2003-2009: CEO of Vogt-Schild Medien AG in Solothurn, Switzerland and of the Vogt-Schild Media Group

The Vogt-Schild Media Group includes the “Solothurner Zeitung” and its three split editions: the “Grenchner Tagblatt”, the “Langenthaler Tagblatt” and the “Berner Rundschau”. The house also has five weekly newspapers in its stable. The group’s magazine arm produces special-interest magazine “wir eltern” (for parents) and three technical titles, “Chemische Rundschau”, “CHemie plus” and “SwissPlastics”. All four publications are market leaders in their field. The magazine division is also home to the group’s distribution (subscription management and collection) and advertising sales units.

Vogt-Schild Druck AG, a further division of the Vogt-Schild Media Group which is based in Derendingen, Switzerland, is a classic rotary and sheet offset print facility. Around 100 magazine titles are printed, finished and dispatched from here. Non-periodical printed business matter accounts for a third of the facility’s volume.

As CEO of the Vogt-Schild Media Group, Christian Müller is also chairman of the board of local private radio station Radio 32 (in which Vogt-Schild holds an equity stake of around 40%) and a member of the board of Aarau-based Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG, in which Vogt-Schild holds a 25% stake.

2000-2003: mandate-based collaborations with Vogt-Schild Medien AG, initially with the company’s magazine publications and later additionally with its newspaper titles, too.

Ringier

1978-1989 and 1993-1998: employed by Ringier, Switzerland’s biggest media group

In his long tenure with the Ringier Group, Christian Müller spent eight years as editor-in-chief of the “Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten” (LNN), was Vice-President Magazines at the group’s Zurich head office and was general manager of the Bern-based daily “Der Bund” (including responsibility for local Radio Förderband). He also served as general manager of Ringier CR in Prague in the Czech Republic, at a time when Ringier was publishing two daily newspapers and some ten weekly magazines there and was also operating a major printing facility in Ostrava; and, during his secondment to the Czech Republic, he further served as chairman of the supervisory board of PNS, the Czech national press distribution organisation.

Fachpresse Goldach / Druckerei AVD

1990-1992: CEO of this publisher of specialist magazines and its affiliated rotary offset printing facility, which belonged to the German-based Vogel publishing group

Badener Tagblatt / Druckerei Wanner AG, Baden

1969-1978: employed (after five years working as a freelance journalist and editor during his studies) at the Badener Tagblatt, going on to serve as head of regional news, a member of the editorial executive committee, a member of executive management and personal deputy to the publisher.