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This one wasn't at the Hallenstadion

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s competition watchdog Comco is to investigate the five-year agreement, which came into force early 2009, between the country’s largest ticket-seller, Ticketron, and the Hallenstadion Zurich (AGH), one of its biggest concert venues. Comco will look into the details of the agreement which obliges the organizers of events at the Hallenstadion to offer least 50 percent of the tickets for sale through Ticketcorner.

Ticketcorner has been in the sights of the Federal Competition Commission before. In 2006, after an appeal, it was absolved of monopolistic behaviour.

In the USA a similar venture merging Ticketmaster and LiveNation, the world’s biggest concert-promoter, was recently approved by regulators, reports the Economist.

Links to other sites: ComCo, TicketNews

Posted by :: Sean Ecker on 8 February 2010 at 16:54 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 8 February 2010.

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