Lorenz Köhler (picture), Head of Public Relations and Communications Interroll, Sant'Antonino, is a communications professional: The studied media scientist of the University of Berne was previously an assistant and advertising copywriter in an advertising agency and a few years public relations and advertising coordinator for Europe/ Middle & Far East with Jet Aviation. His advice to the communications community: " A Corporate should always express itself briefly, simply and clearly and focus on the important issues." Read the brief answers to five questions to Lorenz Köhler, as well as the profile of Interroll.

The number of reports submitted by significant shareholders trebled in 2008. With the revised law governing disclosure obligations, Switzerland is playing a leadership role and enhancing the transparency of significant shareholdings in listed companies. The Disclosure Office also set records in terms of the number of requests received for the evaluation of the existence of a disclosure obligation or the grant of exceptions and easier disclosures, as well as the number of suspected cases of reporting violations forwarded to the attention of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).

The new rules and regulations for listing at SIX Swiss Exchange enter into force on 1 July 2009. At the same time, SIX Exchange Regulation is going live with its own website containing a large number of new functional features for its primary stakeholder groups: issuers, participants and investors. SIX Exchange Regulation (the division operates independently of SIX Swiss Exchange and is responsible for the regulation and surveillance of issuers and exchange participants) is introducing fully revised listing rules and regulations effective 1 July. The objective of the now finalized revision was to bring the rules and regulations into line with statutory amendments and changed market needs as well as to streamline and simplify the wording to make it more user-friendly.

Tensid Communication Services that was set up in september 2003 is a department of Tensid AG in Baar. As an "electronic postman" it aims to be the Swiss market leader in targeted global electronic distribution of text, sound and video of investor relations, public relations and marketing communications of enterprises and also in all sizes. Media information, analysis, reports, user friendly invitations and newsletters will be distributed to any desired target. Innovative are the safeguards against "spam" accusations and the success of control in real time.

„marCo – Market Communication Office®“
The base of the Tensid achievements is marCo – Market Communication Office® - The modern Communications-Management-System“. The support is always available during 365 days and around the clock. All solutions can be used in the form of outsourcing or insourcing. They are available for companies in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and other European countries. As the only independent Swiss company, Tensid is authorized as Primary Information Provider by the Financial Services Authority (Financial Market Authority in London).