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Tamedia acquires an interest in ticket marketer Starticket

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Zurich, 1 July 2013 – As of 1 July, the Tamedia Media Group is to acquire a 75% interest in Starticket, a Swiss ticket marketer. Starticket is set to continue developing on a joint basis with the present management, and cooperation with individual media in the Tamedia group will be stepped up. «20 Minuten» has already been offering its readers concert and festival tickets in cooperation with Starticket since 2010.

 

Tamedia, the new principal shareholder, is acquiring shares in Starticket AG from Peter Hürlimann, its founder, and from the current co-owners, Urs Brunner, Hans Syz and Brino Holding AG, owned by Bruno Widmer. Peter Hürlimann will remain in place as CEO and will hold – together with the management – 25% of the shares. There is an option for Tamedia to acquire further shares from Peter Hürlimann and the management team until 2018.

 

Starticket was founded in 2003 by Peter Hürlimann. The ticket marketer offers tickets for concerts, festivals, parties, stage shows, sports fixtures and specials via an online portal and a mobile application, through box office sales, advance booking points and a call center. Thanks to its innovative print at home solution and its consistent focus on internet technology, Starticket has continued to expand its position ever since it was founded, and is now the second largest ticket marketer in Switzerland.

 

These transactions are subject to approval by the Swiss Federal Competition Commission.

 

Further information:
Peter Hürlimann, CEO, Starticket
Telephone: +41 43 499 53 53, email: [email protected]

 

Christoph Zimmer, Head of Corporate Communication, Tamedia,
Telephone: +41 44 248 41 35, email: [email protected]

 

More information about Starticket
Founded in 2003 by Peter Hürlimann, Starticket employs a staff of 29 at its headquarters in Zollikon/Zurich. Each year, Starticket sells some two million tickets for 9000 events through a network of 1500 advance booking points, together with a call center and the eShop at www.starticket.ch. Starticket has Switzerland's most innovative print at home technology, enabling customers to buy and print tickets in a few simple steps. At the start of 2011, Starticket also became the first ticket marketer in Switzerland to introduce mobile tickets that can be purchased, paid for and downloaded directly from a smartphone via an app. Aided by technological innovations and advantageous conditions, Starticket has continuously expanded its market position since it was established ten years ago, and is now the second largest ticket marketer in Switzerland.
For further information: www.starticket.ch

 

More information about Tamedia
Tamedia is a Swiss media group headquartered in Zurich. With its various dailies and weeklies, magazines, online platforms and newspaper printing houses, Tamedia numbers among Switzerland's leading media enterprises. The media published by Tamedia AG and its subsidiaries − Tamedia Publications romandes and Espace Media Groupe − play a key part in shaping opinion through independent reporting and critical investigative work, and their entertaining stories from every walk of life provide plenty of talking-points. The company was founded in 1893 and has been listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange since 2000.
For further information: www.tamedia.ch

 

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