Swissprinters

What Swissprinters does

Swissprinters was historically the largest offset printing company in Switzerland, operating for more than 100 years before ceasing printing operations at the end of 2024 for economic reasons. The company's former industrial site in Zofingen, covering approximately 55,000 m2, has been transformed into Ringier Areal, a real estate and workspace leasing entity jointly owned by the Swiss media companies Ringier and NZZ.

Ringier Areal now operates as a workspace and facility leasing business on the historic industrial site. Its offering includes flexible workspaces with full amenities, customizable partitioning, expansion options, and additional storage and archive spaces. The site is positioned as an innovation hub for Zofingen, anchored by its central location directly adjacent to the train station and quick access to the A1 and A2 highways. Distribution is handled through direct leasing managed by facility management (Gloria Leonhardt at Ringier Areal AG), with no public pricing disclosed.

The business model centers on recurring rental income from workspace, storage, and archive tenants, supplemented by planned residential development. A construction project for over 200 apartments has been developed for the western portion of the site and is expected to be realized by a third-party investor with selection completing in 2025. The eastern portion, including the historic main building, is undergoing site development to strengthen the innovation site positioning of Zofingen.

Name

Swissprinters

Website

https://swissprinters.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1833

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Real Estate / Workspace Leasing

NAICS

Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books) (323111), Printing and Related Support Activities (3231)

SIC

Service Industries For The Printing Trade (2790)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial & Offset Printing (Sheetfed/Web) (MPAJALAB)

Keywords

• Offset printing services
• Workspace leasing
• Commercial real estate
• Industrial site management
• Archive storage rental

Headquarters

HQ city

Zofingen

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Swissprinters historically operated as the largest web offset printing company in Switzerland for more than 100 years. Following the cessation of printing operations at the end of 2024, the former company site in Zofingen has been transformed into Ringier Areal, which now offers workspace leasing with flexible partitioning, expansion options, and additional storage and archive spaces to tenants at the 55,000 m2 industrial site.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Workspace Leasing Leasing of workspaces with full amenities on the 55,000 m2 industrial site in Zofingen, offering flexible partitioning, individual expansion options, and proximity to the Zofingen train station and A1/A2 highway connections. Targeted at businesses and organizations seeking centrally located office and workspace solutions.
• Storage and Archive Space Rental Rental of additional storage and archive spaces at the Ringier Areal site in Zofingen, supplementing the workspace leasing offering for tenants needing supplementary storage capacity.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mindspace: Flexible office and workspace leasing operator with presence across European cities including Switzerland. Comparable to Ringier Areal's current workspace leasing offering — flexible partitioning, expansion options, and amenitized workspaces for business tenants.
• Vogt-Schild / Druckerei Habegger: Swiss commercial printer with long heritage serving publishers, media, and corporate customers across Switzerland. Comparable to Swissprinters as a similarly positioned legacy Swiss offset printing business.
• CH Media Print: Swiss media company's printing operations, historically operating commercial offset printing in central Switzerland. Comparable to Swissprinters as a Swiss-based commercial printer with media-industry ownership and similar printing scale.
• Stämpfli Gruppe: Major Swiss commercial printer and publisher based in Bern, with similar historical offset printing, publishing, and communications services business. Closely comparable in size, Swiss market focus, and offset/web printing heritage to legacy Swissprinters.
• DZZ Druckzentrum Zürich (TX Group): Was the printing arm of Tamedia (now TX Group) and one of the largest newspaper offset printers in Switzerland. Directly comparable to Swissprinters as a major Swiss commercial offset printing operation serving media/publishing customers.

Others

• Ringier AG: Primary owner-operator of Ringier Areal (formerly Swissprinters) and major Swiss media company. Comparable as the controlling shareholder driving the site's redevelopment and as a benchmark for Swiss media-industry real estate strategy.

Broad incumbents

• TX Group (Tamedia): Swiss media company that owns/operates newspapers and previously ran commercial printing operations. Comparable to Ringier as a Swiss media-industry owner of print heritage assets and innovation-focused media operations.
• IWG / Regus: Global leader in flexible workspace leasing (Regus, Spaces, HQ brands) with established Swiss presence. Comparable to Ringier Areal as a benchmark for workspace leasing scale, though operates at materially larger and more standardized footprint.

Emerging players

• Impact Hub Switzerland: Network of coworking and innovation community spaces in Switzerland (Zürich, Bern, Lausanne, Geneva), targeting impact-driven and innovation tenants. Comparable to Ringier Areal's positioning of its Zofingen site as an innovation hub.
• Industrious: Premium flexible workspace operator offering amenitized offices with flexible partitioning and expansion options for enterprise tenants. Comparable to Ringier Areal's workspace offering model in terms of tenant experience and flexibility.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/swissprinters.premedia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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