{"id":68232,"date":"2014-09-11T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T09:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=68232"},"modified":"2014-09-11T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T09:20:36","slug":"naspers-in-talks-over-swiss-online-retailer-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/68232\/naspers-in-talks-over-swiss-online-retailer-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Naspers in talks over Swiss online retailer: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\">Naspers is believed to be in talks over the sale of Ricardo.ch, a Swiss-based online retailer, according to Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">The news agency said that the talks are at an early stage, however, Naspers is talking to various banks to advise on the deal.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Ricardo became part of Naspers in March 2008 as part of the group&#8217;s acquisition of Tradus.plc.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Swiss firm operates a general marketplace, an automotive site, an online shopping mall, and Trendsales, a Danish online marketplace for fashion, with Bloomberg reporting a value of up to $500 million, again citing two sources.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">The sale could attract bids from Swiss-based media groups Ringier AG and Tamedia AG,<br \/>\nBloomberg&#8217;s sources said.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Naspers, meanwhile, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Naspers<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Fitch cuts Naspers debt to junk\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/65672\/fitch-cuts-naspers-debt-to-junk\/\"><strong>Fitch cuts Naspers debt to junk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers sets sights on e-commerce and mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/62415\/naspers-sets-sights-on-e-commerce-and-mobile\/\"><strong>Naspers sets sights on e-commerce and mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers revenue spurred by Internet growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/61013\/naspers-revenue-spurred-by-internet-growth\/\"><strong>Naspers revenue spurred by Internet growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naspers is believed to be in talks over the sale of Ricardo.ch, a Swiss based online retailer, according to Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,107,8822,8824,8826],"class_list":["post-68232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-naspers","tag-ricardo-ch","tag-ringier-ag","tag-tamedia-ag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68236,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68232\/revisions\/68236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}