Ticketcorner

Ticketcorner Holding AG ; Ticketcorner AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1987
Seat	Rümlang , Switzerland
management	Andreas Angehrn ; ( CEO ) ; Klaus-Peter Schulenberg ; ( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Number of employees	around 100 (2016)
Branch	Ticketing in the areas of events, entertainment, culture, sport (especially ski tickets)
Website	www.ticketcorner.ch

Logo before 2010

Ticketcorner is a Swiss ticketing company with headquarters in Rümlang in the canton of Zurich . The company was founded in 1987 and is the market leader in ticketing in Switzerland with a market share of around 65 percent. It sells around 9.5 million tickets a year. Ticketcorner AG is a 100% subsidiary of Ticketcorner Holding AG, which is 50% owned by CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA and Ringier AG .

Companies

Ticketcorner is the Swiss market leader in ticketing and offers ticket sales solutions for all kinds of events. In addition to events in the entertainment, cultural and sports sectors, this also includes ski ticketing for around 70 ski areas. The company handles ticket sales for over 15,000 events per year via a website , a mobile app , a call center and 1,300 advance booking offices throughout Switzerland.

The company operates its own media platforms such as the print magazine event. , digital channels, a blog and social media with their own content.

The AG is a 100% subsidiary of Ticketcorner Holding AG, which is 50% owned by CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA and Ringier AG. The CEO of the AG in Switzerland and of the Holding AG is Andreas Angehrn. Urs Wyss is also a member of the management team.

history

Entry ticket booked in 2003 via Ticketcorner, issued via the START travel booking system

Ticketcorner was founded in 1987 as a marketing tool for the Swiss Bank Corporation . In 1999 Ticketcorner, Ticketline, Ticket4you and Ticketphone were merged to form Ticketcorner AG. In 2001 the company was taken over by the Swiss technology group Kudelski . With the takeover of Qivive GmbH and the establishment of Ticketcorner GmbH based in Bad Homburg, the company expanded to Germany. In 2005, the company entered the Austrian market with the establishment of the GmbH based in Vienna.

In 2006 the Kudelski Group sold the majority of the shares to a consortium consisting of the private equity company Capvis (52 percent), Ticketcorner management (10 percent) and Phonak founder Andy Rihs (10 percent). Kudelski retained a 28 percent stake in Ticketcorner. In 2008 the company entered into a strategic partnership with AG Hallenstadion in Zurich and at the same time took over 5 percent of the share capital of AG Hallenstadion. In 2009 the leisure magazine MORE was launched and the Good News Member Club was taken over.

In February 2010, the German CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA announced the 100% takeover of Ticketcorner Holding AG for 65 million francs. In a second, joint media release it was also announced that in future all ticketing activities will be bundled in the joint venture founded in December 2009 with the Swiss media group Ringier , in which CTS Eventim and Ringier each hold half.

A merger with Starticket from the TX Group was prohibited by the competition commission .

Event and leisure magazine event.

Since March 2016, Ticketcorner has published the events and leisure magazine event six times a year . out. The circulation is 150,000 copies, which are available as a supplement to the subscription edition of the SonntagsBlick and are available at the advance booking offices ( SBB , Manor etc.) and in the Hallenstadion.

Before that, Ticketcorner was the presenting partner of the leisure magazine Schweizer Illustrierte event in Switzerland (until February 2011 it ran under the name MORE ). It has appeared ten times a year since February 2009, including as a supplement to Schweizer Illustrierte .

Fee system

Ticketcorner has been criticized by the media several times because of its ticket fees on behalf of various larger Swiss ticketing providers . The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs announced in February 2015 that all ticketing providers must change their price disclosure practice so that all unavoidable fees are included in the ticket price from the start. Ticketcorner implemented this directive at the beginning of March 2015 and replaced the fee for print-at-home tickets and a price reduction for postage with a service fee included from the start.