Edipresse takes over Swissfriends.ch
The Lausanne-based publishing house Edipresse has acquired Comfriends SA and, with it, the dating platform Swissfriends.ch. Just recently, the publishing companies Ringier and Tamedia also acquired online platforms.
Lausanne-based publisher Edipresse has acquired Comfriends SA and with it the dating platform Swissfriends.ch. The publisher has already held a stake in Comfriends since 2005, but has now exercised its purchase options and bought the remaining 51 percent from the other shareholders. Swissfriends.ch was founded in 1999 and says it now has 90,000 members and 20 million page views per month. As Netzwoche writes, Edipresse is not the first publisher to feel a renewed hunger for online platforms. Ringier recently acquired Geschenkidee.ch and Tamedia Search.ch.
