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Swiss power firms getting greener

This content was published on Jun 28, 2000 They are launching a new label called Naturemade to be awarded to electricity companies producing eco-friendly power. The certificate is the concept of the Association for Environmentally Friendly Electricity, a loose alliance of electricity producers, consumers and environmental campaigners. It is a response to increased liberalisation in the international and domestic energy markets and fears…

Alpine glacier seeks World Heritage status

This content was published on Jun 28, 2000 The head of the environment ministry, Moritz Leuenberger, will formally hand in the bid at the organisation’s headquarters in Paris. If successful, the Jungfraujoch region would join the likes of Mount Kilamanjaro and the United States’ Grand Canyon, United Nations officials could take up to one year to examine the request. The proposed region covers…

Chemical and machinery industry employees press for higher wages

This content was published on Jun 28, 2000 At a news conference on Wednesday, they added that the drop in real wages in previous years and a rise in inflation of 1.5 to two per cent for this year, were further reasons for a significant increase. The unions said they would press for the practice of a general wage rise to be maintained,…

Manpower index highlights healthy Swiss economy

This content was published on Jun 28, 2000 Manpower’s survey reports that job offers in the Swiss press rose in nine out of the 13 regions covered by the index. It also said the domestic employment market is tightening even more as the gap between job offers and those actively seeking work is narrowing. The best performance was seen in canton Schaffhausen (…

Government ponders what to do with spare gold

This content was published on Jun 28, 2000 A further 500 tonnes have already been earmarked for the Solidarity Foundation, which, subject to acceptance by the people in a referendum, will finance charitable projects at home and abroad. The government is proposing two variants for the 800 tonnes. The first, and it is clearly the cabinet’s favourite, is to finance a programme of…

Social benefits can beat poverty

This content was published on Jun 27, 2000 Central to the report and summit is the belief that social justice and equality must run parallel with globalisation. The report found that Switzerland’s old age pension scheme and social benefits are very effective in combating poverty amongst the elderly. The study also said that state benefits, which account for one third of revenue for…

Top salaries continue growing

This content was published on Jun 27, 2000 This increase is twice as much as was seen in the previous year, according to the annual survey on executive salaries carried out by the Swiss financial newspaper, HandelsZeitung, and the German management consultancy, Kienbaum. On average the top level of executive salaries rose to SFr243,000, up SFr2,000 on the previous year. Executives in the…

Unaxis rapped over the knuckles

This content was published on Jun 27, 2000 Instead the Commission wants Unaxis, formerly Oerlikon-Bührle, to proceed with a public offer to the remaining shareholders, even though their shares are not required by Unaxis to hold a majority stake. Following the November 1999 acquisition by Unaxis of roughly 27 per cent of the share capital of Esec, it had intended to exercise the…

Day receives two new key orders

This content was published on Jun 27, 2000 In a communiqué, Day said it would be creating intranet solutions for the Swiss Ministry of Defence, Protection of the Population and Sport (DDPS), and for the Extratel company which is Switzerland’s largest outsourcing call centre. Both projects will use Communiqué 2, the software developed by Day for the management of complex websites. Day said…

Gavazzi boosts sales and earnings

This content was published on Jun 27, 2000 Sales increased 17 per cent to SFr449.2 million, while operational profits doubled to SFr27.1 million. Thanks to this improved performance net profit rose SFr900,000 to SFr10.6 million. As a result, the group is proposing increasing its dividend from SFr30 to SFr40. In addition, shareholders at the electronics group based in canton Zug will be asked…

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