Siroop: Weko approves online marketplace of Swisscom and Coop
The Competition Commission (Weko) gives the green light for the planned cooperation between Coop and Swisscom to launch an online marketplace.
Swisscom is taking a 50 percent stake in Eos Commerce, a company founded by Coop, which will go live in 2016 with the new online marketplace under the name Siroop. Both partners, Coop and Swisscom, intend to contribute their expertise in digitization, e-commerce, marketing and retailing to the start-up. Siroop.ch will be accessible to all market participants. Currently, the employees of the start-up are developing Eos Commerce's platform and evaluating external retailers. Siroop will initially start with a pilot in one region, and in 2016 the marketplace will cover the whole of Switzerland.
