Tamedia puts pressure on
The Tamedia freight forwarding company wants to force the *Schaffhauser Nachrichten* to join the Northeast Switzerland network by pitting it against competitors in the delivery sector.
Forwarding company Because Schaffhauser Nachrichten (SN) did not want to hand over its delivery organization to Zuvo, the contracting company of Tamedia and NZZ, Zuvo expanded to Schaffhausen at the beginning of 2007. Since then, Zuvo has been distributing around 5000 copies of the Tagi and NZZ in Schaffhausen, but no longer the SN. "Ecological nonsense," says SN publisher Norbert Neininger. But the Zuvo competition in Schaffhausen is one of a series of measures with which Tamedia wants to force SN into the Nordostschweiz association. This was founded last week by the Tamedia subsidiary Thurgauer Zeitung (TZ) and the Landbote. SN was also invited, but Neininger declined. This is probably why TZ and Landbote unilaterally lowered the rate of Kombi1, to which SN also belongs. The result: loss of revenue for SN. The Zuvo expansion is now intended to further weaken SN and make it compliant.
Markus Knöpfli
Markus Knöpfli
