Bluewin to offer on-line shopping access
The leading Swiss Internet provider, Bluewin, and the German e-commerce company, Primus Online, are to set up a joint venture to build an e-commerce platform in Switzerland.
Primus Online’s shopping network will become available in the autumn through the address www.bluewin.ch.
Primus Online has already set up a similar venture with an Austrian internet provider to establish itself as one of the leading e-commerce companies in the German-speaking world.
Bluewin, owned by Switzerland’s largest telecommunications operator, Swisscom, will hold 51 per cent of the new company.
Bluewin is to be listed on the Swiss exchange in the next few months.
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