Lausanne (ots) - Growing consumer demand in 2011 fuelled the momentum for Nespresso as the engine of the dynamic portioned coffee segment. Nestlé Nespresso SA achieved sales above CHF 3.5 billion and organic growth of around 20%. "Last year, consumers seeking moments of pleasure continued to choose Nespresso ...
HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich
Zürich (ots) - A global study carried out by the brand value rating agency BV4, in cooperation with the Department of Social Media Management of the HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich, ranks for the first time the most valuable social network brands. Facebook takes the top of the ...
Geneva (ots) - High-Tech Bridge SA ( https://www.htbridge.ch/ ), a leading Swiss information security company, joins Online Trust Alliance (OTA) as a General Member. OTA's mission is to develop and advocate best practices, training and advance public policy to mitigate emerging privacy, identity and security ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - In an article published today in the European Respiratory Journal, results from a study on electronic cigarettes show users get as much nicotine from this product as smokers usually get from tobacco cigarettes. The study, by researchers from the Universities of Geneva and Auckland, reports levels of cotinine (a product of the degradation of ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - WISeKey, a 2011 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Growth Company, is pleased to announce an agreement with the Swiss luxury watch brand Hublot to extend their breakthrough anti-counterfeiting partnership. After an astonishingly successful deployment of WISeAuthentic® - WISeKey's brand ...
Lausanne (ots) - WISeKey welcomes the luxury world to employ WISeAuthentic, the innovative technology defending luxury brands in the fight against counterfeits. WISeAuthentic technology already protects several brands with a demo on Hublot and Chris & Cris at the WISeKey booth at FT Business of Luxury Summit this ...
Geneva, Boston, Madrid (ots) - WISeKey and Chris & Cris announced today at MIT a revolutionary exclusive social network. Chris & Cris, a Spanish-based company, has a network of over 10 million people who enjoy their luxury garments, distributed by major banks, multinationals, sport clubs, and universities creating ...
Geneva (ots) - From now on, watches will be protected by a SmartCard and a digital certificate provided by WISeKey, proving their identity and origin. This innovative solution presented today at the Geneva Time Exhibition by WISeKey represents another decisive step in the fight against the sale of fakes. It consists of offering WISeAuthentic in the form ...
Zurich (ots) - - Indication: The register "Most expensive retail location in each Country" can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100019131/?langid=2 - At 10,000 Swiss Francs (7,500 ...
Düdingen (ots) - This year, the best Emmental cheesemaker was elected for the very first time. The title of Best Cheesemaker 2009 went to "Emmentaler Tradition", produced by cheesemaker Urs Fankhauser from the Ilfis dairy near Langnau. On the 12th of June 2010, a big celebration was held to honour this ...
Geneva-Frankfurt (ots) - WISeKey and Original1 announce a strategic alliance for the usage of cryptography technologies in the field of anti-counterfeiting. The combination of strong authentication, with product lifecycle management services, as well as identification technologies, such as barcodes, RFIDs, holograms and other machine-readable marker ...
Geneva (ots) - At the LIFT10 Conference (May 5-7), SmallRivers will present its new service: www.paper.li, a web application to read Twitter as a newspaper. It offers users a new way to interact with Twitter, enabling a fast and efficient manner to browse the hundreds of links shared daily by any group of Twitter users. Paper.li is developed by SmallRivers. Using its state-of-the-art social analysis engine, ...
La Chaux-de-Fonds (ots) - Legendary Swiss watchmaker, TAG Heuer ( http://www.tagheuer.com ), has always kept up with the times and embraced the latest technological advances in order to maintain their "avant-garde" status. In this age of social media, TAG Heuer is continuing its pursuit of excellence through its Internet strategy which has been labelled as ...
Düdingen (ots) - At the International Cheese Awards 2009 in Nantwich (Cheshire, England) July 28/29th Von Mühlenen's "Le Gruyère Premier Cru" was awarded "The Supreme Champion Overseas", as previously won in 2006, from an array of entries from 24 different countries. Also, "Le Gruyère Premier Cru" won Gold in the Single Specialty Cheese Class and was awarded the LTS Litman Trophy. The cheese was then ...
Geneva (ots) - Every product made by a luxury goods manufacturer -a watch, handbag, piece of jewellery, etc.- would be accompanied and sold with a smart device, such as a SmartCard, containing the encrypted full details of the product, ie registration number, bar code, date and place of manufacture, etc. ...
Düdingen (ots) - The Cheese World Champion von Mühlenen family was honoured 12 times at the World Cheese Awards in Dublin for its Le Gruyère Premier Cru, Emmentaler Tradition Premier Cru and 5 further Swiss cheese specialities. The von Mühlenen family, Cheese World Champions in 1992, 2002, 2005 and 2006, collected a total of 12 awards at this year's World Cheese Awards event, resulting in it being one of ...
Bregenz am Bodensee, Austria (ots) - To celebrate 25 years of plastic and the launch of a provocative new line of 'villainous' Swatch watches, Swatch founder Nicolas G. Hayek invited hundreds of Swatch fans, special guests and journalists from around the world to a spectacular multimedia party in Bregenz earlier this week. Guests arriving at the PLASTIC ROYALE by SWATCH found a huge "Once Again" - perhaps the most ...