Life At Bonnier - GROW

Meet Ellen Adolfsson

By Tora Bonnier on 2010-07-12
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GROW participant Ellen Adolfsson takes on the challenge of unusual and complex book design at Templar in the U.K.

The most exciting thing about Ellen Adolfsson's new position is learning about the abstract art of paper engineering.  "I didn't even know there was such a thing," says GROW participant Adolfsson, 45, who made a switch from being a graphic designer at Bonnier Carlsen in Stockholm to being a designer at Templar in Surrey, England. "This is a new way of thinking to me - books that fold out, things that pop-up off the pages and move.

Meet Stephanie Tang

By Tora Bonnier on 2010-07-02
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Experiencing a new culture was key for GROW participant Stephanie Tang.

What surprises Stephanie Tang most about the Sydney office of Weldon Owen is how diverse the culture is. "One of my co-workers says we're like the UN," says Tang. She is participating in the GROW program, working for three months as a designer for Weldon Owen's Discovery Education books. Tang's regular job is at Weldon Owen Inc. in San Francisco, where she has worked for the past three and a half years as a senior designer.

Meet Frida Jonasson

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-02
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Meeting new people, learning new things and brushing up on skills is what GROW is all about for Frida Jonasson.

What brought Frida Jonasson to Florida was her curiosity. The GROW participant, who is spending three months as production manager at Destination Weddings & Honeymoons and Islands among other titles, wanted to see how magazine production works in another country. "Sometimes you need to challenge yourself in order to grow, both professionally and personally," she says.

Meet Kristyn Brady

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-05
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Trading New York for Stockholm, Field & Stream's Kristyn Brady takes on Bonnier Media University.

When Field & Stream's Kristyn Brady applied for a GROW position at Bonnier Media University, she had no idea that so many people were interested in the exchange program.

Meet Karolina Westerdahl

By Bert Menninga on 2010-03-29
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Karolina Westerdahl came to Expressen as an intern when she was studying journalism, but she had already managed to work with most of the different supplements before she ended up at the news desk as an editor.

"I work nights and love the fast pulse of the job," she says. "The news desk has its own special something."

Meet Anna Nilsson

By Bert Menninga on 2010-03-18
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New perspectives and people inspire GROW participant Anna Nilsson.

When Resumé project manager Anna Nilsson, 28, talks about working as a GROW exchange participant at Ullstein Buchverlage in Germany, she says that the experience has exceeded her expectations.

Meet Linus Holm

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-24
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Production management in Stockholm not so differnet from production management in Orlando, says Linus Holm.

Photo by Karolina Westerdahl

Linus Holm, 29, who is a production manager in Stockholm, has worked with marketing, purchasing and production management since he began at Bonnier in 2006. He started out at Semic and in 2008 moved to Bonnier Tidskrifter.

Since the beginning of February, however, he has been a GROW participant, working as a production manager for Bonnier Corporation in Orlando. He provides printers with print instructions and deals with ads for Islands, among other magazines.

"It's going great," Holm says.

Meet Brandon Stakenborg

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-18
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Brandon Stakenborg takes on Expressen.

Photo by Johanna Syrén

Brandon Stakenborg, 25, grew up in sunny Ocala, Florida, not far from Winter Park, where he took a job as a java developer at Bonnier Corporation in 2008. Just a few months after starting, he transferred to New York, where he took a position as java developer for Parenting.com. Jump forward two years, and he's made yet another switch to an even colder climate. This time, he's come to Stockholm to work as a java developer at daily newspaper Expressen for three months as part of the GROW program. "It's not as much of a culture shock as I thought," he says.

Meet Amy Geppert

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-10
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Amy Geppert exchanges New York for Stockholm.

Amy Geppert, 25, lives in Brooklyn and works at Popular Science as an editorial assistant. Until the beginning of February 2010 that is, when she pulled up stakes and moved to Stockholm to work for three months as project assistant for Bonnier Media University in Stockholm.

Geppert made the job change thanks to the GROW program.

"I'd never been to Europe and I'd heard so much about how big Bonnier is in Sweden, I wanted to learn for myself," Geppert says.

34 GROW ambassadors selected

By Niklas Sessler on 2010-01-21
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GROW is the name of our global job rotation program that now enters its second year. Now this year's 34 GROW ambassadors have been selected. Here is the list

Photo: Elliot Elliot

"The purpose of GROW is to transfer knowledge, provide participants with new perspectives and let them get glimpses of other Bonnier companies," says Elisabeth Palombo, Bonnier Media University, responsible for the GROW program.