New CEO for Bonnier Business Polska

Iwona Kossmann has been appointed CEO of Bonnier Business Polska. Bonnier Business Polska publishes the business daily Puls Biznesu, medical trade journal Medicine Today and is the owner of the conference and event company Informedia Polska.

Kossmann, 42, has broad and long experience in the telecommunications business, fast moving consumer goods and most recently in fashion retail.

Prior to taking over at Bonnier Business Polska, she has been CEO of DCG S.A. a fashion retail company which markets the Deni Cler brand. Prior to that she was a management board member of Polish Telecom (TP S.A.) and a management board member responsible for marketing and sales at PTK Centertel (the Orange mobile telephone brand in Poland).  She has also worked for ten years in fast moving consumer goods in Poland, Hungary and Germany, as well as in journalism for Canal+, Radio S and the Warsaw Voice newspaper.

"I am extremely pleased to be able to announce Iwona Kossmann as the new CEO of Bonnier Business Polska," says Anders Eriksson, CEO at Bonnier Business Press International and chairman of Bonnier Business Polska. "Iwona Kossmann has a track record of continued success and I am confident she has the professional experience and managerial skills needed to substantially expand our Polish business."

Kossmann says she is excited to be taking on her new role in a new business, and hopes that her in-depth understanding of consumer trends, Internet and mobile telephony as a medium bring a lot to the table. "I look forward to taking on the challenge of the enormous transformations facing the media industry today," she says. "I am particularly excited about expansion plans for Bonnier Business in Poland. I believe in organic growth strongly supported by acquisitions. The broad portfolio of Bonnier Business gives Bonnier Business Poland a chance to enter new categories with new products."

Kossmann also faces a number of  issues in her new position. "One of the biggest challenges is the migration of customers from the printed newspaper to the online version, which means a loss of revenues."

Kossmann will start in her new position in the first quarter of 2011.