Company Emphasizes Quality and Customers as Key to Global Expansion Paudex (ots) - Fulfilling CEO Gerhard Berssenbrügge's forecast for the Company, Nestlé Nespresso SA, the worldwide leader in highest quality perfectly portioned coffee, surpassed 1 billion CHF in revenue for the first time in 2006. This achievement marked the sixth consecutive year that Nestlé ...
Lugano (ots) - In 2006 Banca del Gottardo's consolidated net income increased by 17% to CHF 97 million. The Bank's reorientation had an overall neutral impact on net profit: the sale of non-core businesses resulted in capital gains, but these were offset by substantial extraordinary charges. Operating expenses were reduced in 2006 and the cost/income ratio was maintained at the level of the previous year. After ...
Zurich (ots) - Kardex AG is selling its AFT division effective February 21, 2007 to the Munich-based Certina Group since agreement could not be reached with the original buyer (see media information dated December 22, 2006) on the terms of the closing. The contract with the Certina Group was signed and closed yesterday. As previously published, the anticipated extraordinary costs for the restructuring and hive-off of ...
Sofia and Geneva (ots) - The leading Swiss company for Internet security WISeKey entered the Bulgarian market in December 2006 with the registration of its local branch, WISeKey Bulgaria. The company is a world leader in the IT domain, offering complete solutions for net security through high-level data encryption. WISeKey effectuated the first project worldwide for ...
Interlaken (ots) - We are pleased to be able to report once again on a very satisfactory business year. Our most important attraction, the Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe, achieved its best result since 2000 (special offer). In winter sport, we enjoyed almost unchanged high demand in 2006. Last year we ...
Bettlach (ots) - Mathys, the Bettlach-based orthopaedics business, recruited a further 28 persons in 2006. At 7.2 %, the increase in turnover was less than expected, but was nonetheless substantially higher than the industry average. This family-owned business achieved consolidated sales of CHF 74.2 million, which, although equivalent to a year-on-year increase of 7.2 %, was slightly less than expected. The slower ...
Madrid (ots) - 1 February 2007 - UNWTO and WISeKey announced an agreement today to expand the use of traveller identification and authentication technologies in the multibillion dollar tourism sector. This collaboration builds on the Public Private Partnership agreement signed by UNWTO and Microsoft in 2006. ...
Zurich (ots) - The Clariden Leu merger was completed on January 26, 2007. The merger, which is effective retroactive to January 1, 2007, combines the experience, expertise and products of Credit Suisse independent private banking subsidiaries Clariden, Leu, Hofmann, BGP Banca di Gestione Patrimoniale and securities dealer Credit Suisse Fides under one roof. Clariden Leu is one of the five largest providers in the Swiss private banking industry. Credit Suisse announced ...
Zurich (ots) - Only New York, Hong Kong, Paris, London and Tokyo have retail spaces more expensive than those in Zurich, a city with the world's greatest buying power, highest income per capita as well as the highest standard of living - depending on the ranking used. On Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse, rents reached a ...
Luterbach (ots)- Over the business first quarter of 2006/2007, Schaffner Holding AG (SWX Swiss Exchange: SAHN) increased its net sales of electromagnetic-compatibility and power-quality components by 16.7% on the previous year's figure to CHF 34.1 million (CHF 29.3 million). Adjusted for currency effects, the rise in sales amounted to 15.5%. At the same time, order intake increased by 31.1% to CHF 45.9 million (CHF ...
Zurich (ots) - Accenture is a new Associate Implementation Partner for Avaloq. The global group will support the software company in Switzerland initially, then across Europe and in Asia as well. Avaloq has gained a new partner for the introduction of its banking software. The cooperation with Accenture, one of the world's leading management consulting, technology service and outsourcing providers, reinforces the ...
- During a press conference in Geneva this morning, Martin Velasco, Pascal Mock MD and Prof. Patrick Aebischer, President of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), presented a solution which opens promising new prospects in terms of assisted reproductive technology. - A major advantage of the ...
swissgrid will commence operations as the Swiss national transmission system operator on 15 December 2006. Its motto: "moving power". The company is to take on overall responsibility for the operation of the Swiss extra high-voltage grid and will make a hugely important contribution to power supply in Switzerland. swissgrid is being formed because of the forward-looking attitude of the Swiss grid companies. Laufenburg ...
Lugano (ots) - HELSINN HEALTHCARE SA, a privately owned Swiss pharmaceutical group, today announced the successful completion of two phase 3 trials of Aloxi® (palonosetron hydrochloride) Injection for the prevention of post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV). Both clinical trials successfully met the primary ...
Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group increased its net sales in fiscal 2005/2006 by 10.3% to CHF 184.0 million (fiscal 2004/2005: CHF 166.8 million). Adjusted for currency effects, this was an increase of 8.4%. Thanks to a favorable increase in earnings in the operational business and extraordinary net proceeds of CHF 9.9 million relating to the sale of the Swiss ...
- A Picture is available via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of Charge at: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100011432 - Klingnau (ots) - German National Stephan Unser has Been Appointed Chief Sales Officer of Sede AG, Effective January 1, 2007 45-year-old Mr. Unser holds a master's degree in business administration and has been appointed to the management board ...
Laufenburg (ots) - swissgrid will commence activities as Switzerland's national grid operator on 15 December 2006, assuming operational management and responsibility for the Swiss high-voltage grid. swissgrid employs approximately 130 highly qualified employees at its head office in Laufenburg. "The operational launch of swissgrid is a milestone in the evolution ...
Madrid (ots) - WISeKey ELA, the WISeKey Affiliate for Spain and Latin America announces today in Madrid a Strategic Partnership with Microsoft and IT Deusto for the deployment of the CertifyID BlackBox line of security solutions. This announcement follows WISekey"s recent nomination by Microsoft as a global Lead ...
- To access an accompanying photo, please go to http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100007465&lang=2 - International Finance Corporation and Nestlé Nespresso to Invest $500,000 over two years to assist farmers in Central America San Jose, Costa Rica (ots) - In conjunction with the ...
The IFBC study on value creation in the Swiss banking industry highlights the importance of keeping shareholders well informed Zurich (ots) - Good corporate governance and a high level of transparency are conducive to the sustainable increase of a company's value. This also applies in the case of Swiss banks, as demonstrated in "Wertschaffung in der Schweizer Bankenbranche" (Value Creation in Swiss Banking Industry), ...
Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: SAHN) increased consolidated net sales in fiscal 2005/2006 by 10.3% to CHF 184.0 million (2004/2005: CHF 166.8 million). Adjusted for currency effects, this amounts to an increase of 8.4%. Order intake rose by 8.5% to CHF 188.5 million (CHF 173.8 ...
Global Hotel Alliance launches fully interactive site with independent tailored packaging Zurich (ots) - IXeo Interactive Travel SA, the global tourism gateway, today announced that it has been chosen by the Global Hotel Alliance, the new hotel alliance for luxury hotels and resorts, to build and operate the company's website with complete dynamic packaging & tailored booking solution launched on the 27th October. ...
Zurich (ots) - Cablecom has provided television for over 40 years and will soon present a revised version of its digital programmes. Swisscom is launching its television over wire today thus intensifying competition in the Swiss television market. The future belongs to digital television. Cablecom has provided television for over 40 years and was the first ...
The cooperation includes investment in WISeKey from MCI Events and the development and commercialization of a join WISekey E-Xhibition Secure Portal and E-Xhibition eCard to be used within the WISeKey's Global Network of Identity Providers in major world Exhibition destinations. Geneva, Switzerland and Nice, ...