Confederation discontinues Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce as print edition
More than 130 years after its first publication, the federal government plans to discontinue the print edition of the Swiss Commercial Gazette, according to a report in Thursday’s edition of the Handelszeitung.
A few days ago, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs published a corresponding federal contract on the Simap.ch procurement platform. The project envisages the discontinuation of the print product by mid-2017 at the latest. At the same time, a new internet portal is to be created that bundles all official economic information from the federal government and cantons. The readership of the print edition of the SOGC has shrunk continuously in recent years. As recently as 1998, the print edition had a circulation of 22,000 copies. This has since fallen to less than 4000 copies. In contrast, the SOGC is enjoying growing popularity on the Internet: over 60,000 inquiries are received every day.
