Marketing and media expert Ronnie Hürlimann now runs a shopping center
Ronnie Hürlimann and Jan Wengeler from Berlin are taking over the management of the Mall of Switzerland shopping center in Ebikon, Lucerne, which is still under construction. The second-largest shopping mall in Switzerland opens at the end of September.
Ronnie Hürlimann grew up in Lucerne and lives in Nidwalden. The marketing and media expert was Head of Advertising Market and Head of Advertising Sales for the Aargauer AZ Zeitung and the Sonntagspublikation Sonntag. From 2010 to 2016, he was Head of Marketing and Sales as well as Deputy Managing Director at the Central Swiss television station Tele1 (Werbewoche.ch reported). He previously worked in Lucerne as Head of Publishing Business and Communications at the UD Medien Group and for ten years as Publishing Director of Insider Verlag.
Jan Wengeler has been appointed Head of Center Management at commercial real estate consultancy CBRE Switzerland, according to a press release issued on Monday. CBRE is responsible for center management at the Mall of Switzernland.
If everything goes according to plan, the shopping center will open on 28 September. It will comprise around 65,000 square meters of rental space and will house 150 stores and restaurants. Around 1100 jobs will be created in the mall. A cinema with twelve screens and various sports facilities - including an indoor surfing facility - are also planned. The building will also house 191 apartments belonging to the Migros pension fund. The land on which the mall is being built once belonged to elevator and escalator manufacturer Schindler. The money comes from a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. (SDA/pd/hae)
