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Aid agencies step up pressure ahead of poverty summit

This content was published on Jun 1, 2000 Five years after the UN social summit in Copenhagen, member governments are to meet in Geneva later this month to consider how close they have come to meeting that summit’s goals of reducing poverty and increasing employment and social equality. The statistics are not encouraging. Even the most vociferous advocates of free trade and open…

Swiss tourist industry woos grey market

This content was published on Jun 1, 2000 The international symposium was organised by the International School for Tourism in Zurich and concentrated on the theme “50 plus – the Power Generation”. The over 50s account for 29 per cent of the Swiss population and the trend towards an older population is set to continue as more of the country’s baby boomers move…

Algroup and Alcan announce new merger plans

This content was published on Jun 1, 2000 The two aluminium companies have been in negotiations since efforts to form a three-way merger with France’s Pechiney fell foul of the European Commission’s competition authority in April. With the support of the Swiss financier Martin Ebner’s BZ Group, which has a 34 per cent stake in Algroup, Alcan Aluminium has now announced an agreed…

Zurich researchers solve picture piracy problem on the Internet

This content was published on Jun 1, 2000 “Our market analysis has shown that 40 to 50 per cent of all material that is offered on the commercial market is in many cases misused and to some extent stolen,” says Alexander Herrigel, the director of Digital Copyright Technologies, a company launched to build on the research conducted by the Federal Institutes of Technology…

Credit Suisse steps up investment in Internet

This content was published on Jun 1, 2000 CS Group chairman Lukas Mühlemann told the Swiss economics magazine Bilan, that he was not talking about an Internet strategy ‘per se’. “However, it is an invaluable tool which we have integrated into all our areas of business. It allows us to reduce the costs of transactions on the market, and to better communicate and…

Swiss deal with China in sight

This content was published on Jun 1, 2000 Talks will take place in Geneva, the headquarters of the WTO, on a landmark trade agreement between the two countries. Switzerland is one of a handful of countries still to reach an accord with the Chinese. The others are Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico. China has already overcome the biggest hurdles to entry by…

Prices in Switzerland remain stable

This content was published on May 31, 2000 The latest figures have been released against a backdrop of falling unemployment and an economy in which growth is picking up. Despite coming in at the top end of expectations, they still show that retailers are relatively unwilling to pass on rises in the prices of raw materials to the consumer. However, analysts feel that…

Swiss scientist receives innovation prize

This content was published on May 31, 2000 The Foundation writes that Professor Meyr was one of the first scientists who many years ago decided to concentrate his research work solely on future-oriented digital transmission technology and the computer-supported design of digital signal processing systems. Currently, Meyr and his team are working on the next generation of digital communications systems that will display…

Restructuring at SIG set to bring improvements

This content was published on May 31, 2000 “In the year after next (2002) an operating profit of more than SFr200 million should be possible. This is double the poor result of 1999,” SIG’s chief executive, Roman Boutellier told the Swiss business newspaper ‘Finanz and Wirtschaft’. Earnings at SIG in 1999, before interest and tax, and excluding restructuring costs, were SFr107 million. Including…

Switzerland tries to sell transport policy to Europe

This content was published on May 30, 2000 Speaking at a two-day meeting of European transport ministers in Prague, Leuenberger said such a move not only had environmental benefits but also made sense economically. He said bottlenecks on the motorways indirectly increased transport costs. He also referred to a study, which showed that more than 20,000 people die prematurely each year in France,…

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