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Push to make Swiss timber industry more eco-friendly

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 Damian Oettli, the head of WWF-Switzerland’s forest campaign, says the FSC-certification process is a strong boost to the Swiss forestry industry’s competitiveness. “The label is an economic asset. It shows that forest owners are committed to environmentally and socially responsible forest management practices. This gives consumers the certainty that they’re not contributing to the destruction…

Swiss company to modernise Hong Kong metro

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 During the next six years, the Kaba Gilgen firm of Schwarzenburg is going to equip all 30 underground stations of the island’s Mass Transit Railway Corporation with 2,960 platform screen doors. These sophisticated automatic doors are part of a glass wall, which runs along the edge of the platform, preventing access to the railway line.…

Government steps up efforts to improve Internet skills

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 The plan envisages a major new education programme to improve Internet skills, as well as better electronic communications between the government and public. The cabinet announced its Internet literacy drive on the back of a study, which found that Switzerland is lagging behind several of its competitors, including the United States, Sweden and Britain. The…

Swiss stock exchange teams up with British operator to create blue chip platform

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 The new platform is to be called virt-x, and SWX will transfer all its blue chip trading to the new exchange, which will be based in London. SWX members will become members of virt-x. The new exchange will be given exclusive use of SWX’s electronic trading platform. Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter, chief executive of the Swiss exchange,…

Novartis to shake-up pharmaceuticals operations

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 A communiqué from group headquarters in Basel said the new entities would be “Primary Care”, “Speciality Businesses” and “Mature Products”. “Our aim is to align our pharmaceutical activities around franchises and strategic brands, while establishing a focused management structure,” said Daniel Vassella, chairman and chief executive officer of Novartis. “These changes provide entrepreneurial space, speed…

Clariant strengthens presence in Nafta

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 A Clariant statement said the acquisition was part of the company’s strategy to increasingly replace standard products with higher-margin specialties and to strengthen its presence in key markets. Both parties agreed to keep the purchase price confidential. Christianson, with 120 employees and annual sales of SFr30 million, is one of Mexico’s largest producers of surface…

Pressure mounts for savings as health costs soar to SFr40 billion

This content was published on Jul 10, 2000 Announcing the latest figures the interior minister, Ruth Dreifuss, said cuts in health care were needed to bring down costs, including a reduction in the number of doctors. She said the costs were becoming too much of a burden for many households. Overall expenditure on health is now SFr40 billion a year, half of which…

SAir plays down reports of crisis

This content was published on Jul 9, 2000 The head of SAir, Philippe Brugisser, admitted that the rise in fuel prices, as well as the group’s involvement with other airlines, had presented financial problems. One Swiss newspaper reported the company is losing SFr3 million a day. The Sonntagszeitung said the national carrier, Swissair, was losing SFr1 million and SAir’s involvement in the LTU…

Crossair plans memorial for victims of January crash

This content was published on Jul 9, 2000 The acting director of Crossair, Fritz Gotz, said the land on which it will be built has been donated by the parish of Nassenwil. It is not yet known what the memorial will look like, but the airline said it plans to have “something discreet.” The memorial will stand some 100 metres from the field…

Swiss motorists kick off summer holiday with massive traffic jams

This content was published on Jul 8, 2000 Hundreds of motorists are heading towards Italy for a summer break but ended up in tailbacks stretching for kilometres. At midday on Saturday, the A2 between Amsteg and Göschenen had an 11 kilometre queue, with drivers having to wait up to three and a half hours before traffic began to move again. There was a…

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