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Swiss position on patent protection criticised

This content was published on Feb 5, 2002 Oxfam introduced its campaign against patent protection during a conference on intellectual property at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Brazil. Last year, Switzerland and the United States expressed their support for international patent protection during the World Trade Organisation’s ministerial meeting in Doha. “Switzerland and the US were the only two industrialised countries at…

Sulzer Medica shares impress at the bourse

This content was published on Feb 4, 2002 The settlement, which is to be ruled on at a final hearing on May 14, concerns faulty hip and knee implants. The share price rose by almost 21 per cent to SFr111 from Friday’s close at SFr91.75. Shares in the former parent company, Sulzer, also benefited from the settlement news. The share price rose by…

Swiss resume cattle exports

This content was published on Feb 4, 2002 Seven cows left for Bavaria, Germany, on February 1, and the Federal Veterinary Office expects other EU countries to lift bans on Swiss beef in the near future. In 1996, Germany, like many other countries, blocked imports of Swiss beef, beef by-products, dairy goods and cows. The ban was imposed after British scientists announced a…

Galenica reports a successful 2001

This content was published on Feb 4, 2002 Galenica, which is based in Bern, said in a statement on Monday that it had again enjoyed a “highly successful” year. It added that it had succeeded in expanding services and production, enlarging its global network and building up its chain of pharmacies. Among other things, the company manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products, manages pharmacies,…

Ovaltine and Isostar up for sale

This content was published on Feb 4, 2002 Among the brands up for sale are Ovaltine (Ovomaltine in Switzerland), Isostar and Céréal. Generations of children in Britain may remember that there used to be a club called the Ovaltineys and an accompanying radio programme. Novartis said in a statement on Monday that its Consumer Health Sector intended to divest its Health and Functional…

Expo.02 still counting on the public purse

This content was published on Feb 4, 2002 There are 100 days left before the opening of Expo.02. Does the national exhibition creep into your dreams at night? Steinegger: Expo.02 shouldn’t creep otherwise we’ll need more than 100 days to make it happen. The event is becoming ever more concrete, and the mood is relatively good, but there are still many problems to…

Protestors rally against WEF in New York

This content was published on Feb 2, 2002 The Forum has become a regular target for a coalition of groups disenchanted with mainstream politicians and business leaders they hold responsible for much of the poverty and misery that exists in the world today. Banners at the demonstration voiced a range of protests from corporate greed to sanctions against Iraq to the war in…

Economic slump dominates Social Forum

This content was published on Feb 2, 2002 Thousands of kilometres south of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York City, delegates at the alternative summit in Porto Alegre examined ways of ensuring more stable and equitable world growth. The conference, now in its second year, developed out of a desire to give organisations and individuals a forum to discuss their opposition…

Economic forum: from humble beginnings to global event

This content was published on Feb 2, 2002 The man behind the forum is Professor of Business Administration at Geneva University, Klaus Schwab. It was Schwab who took the initiative in 1970 to invite Europe’s top business leaders to discussions in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. The success of that first meeting led to the establishment in 1971 of the European Management…

Swiss industry’s decline continues

This content was published on Feb 2, 2002 The latest UBS survey of 350 companies found that the current “sharp” downturn had yet to bottom out and warned of “distinctly bleak prospects” for the short term. However, the Swiss economy, which has steadily lost momentum since autumn 2000, is expected to begin its recovery by the middle of the year at the latest,…

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