Christoph Neuenschwander joining the group management at Swiss Exhibition

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The Board of Directors of MCH Swiss Exhibition (Holding) Ltd. has
appointed Christoph Neuenschwander as a member of the group
management of Swiss Exhibition Group as of 1 January 2009. Christoph
Neuenschwander will be taking on the newly created function of Chief
Development Officer (CDO) in Swiss Exhibition Group, focusing on the
strategic further development of the group and its operative
subsidiaries - especially in the Event Services business unit.

Christoph Neuenschwander studied business administration at the
University of Zurich and, in 2006, took the Advanced Management
Programme (AMP) at Harvard Business School, Boston USA. Before
joining Swiss Exhibition, he worked for Unilever for twenty years in
consumer-goods companies in both Switzerland and abroad, holding
senior executive functions in Switzerland as of 1994. From 1999 to
2006, he was CEO of Lusso Foods AG and, as of 2007, a managing
partner of Neuenschwander Management Consulting.

Contact point for the media
Christian Jecker
Corporate communication
Telephone: +41 58 206 22 52
christian.jecker@messe.ch

MCH Swiss Exhibition (Holding) AG
CH-4005 Basel
www.messe.ch

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