LZ Medien has a scoreboard

Free newspapers LZ Medien, publisher of the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, will take a 30 percent stake in the Anzeiger Luzern publishing house, which publishes the free weeklies Anzeiger Luzern (113,000 copies) and Luzerner Woche (135,000 copies). "We are probably the only publisher of our size that doesn't have an Anzeiger. We want to change that," says Erwin Bachmann, CEO of LZ Medien. Bachmann is otherwise cautious (see p. 21).LZ Medien had previously considered acquiring a stake, but put it on hold when the Competition Commission (ComCo) launched an investigation and 20 Minuten shelved its plans. Now things are different: 20 Minuten is launching in Central Switzerland in June and, according to Bachmann, the new Cartel Act permits the planned form of cooperation.
(mk)