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Oerlikon-Bührle ends string of poor results

This content was published on Feb 10, 2000 The Oerlikon-Bührle group in Zurich, which has undergone major changes over the past few months, says that it will probably break even this year after making a loss of SFr169 million in 1998. The company said that turnover last year was almost SFr2.9 billion. This is more than 20 per cent lower than 1998 but…

Warburg Dillion Reed to expand in Tokyo

This content was published on Feb 10, 2000 Warburg Dillon Reed, the investment banking arm of Swiss financial services group UBS, is planning to double the size of its corporate finance group in Tokyo. At present it has fewer than 40 staff for corporate finance in Tokyo but the number will be boosted to more than 70 by the end of the year.…

Novartis to set up joint company with Quaker Oats

This content was published on Feb 10, 2000 The Swiss life sciences group, Novartis, has confirmed reports that it is setting up a functional foods joint venture in North America with US company, Quaker Oats. The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times newspapers reported that the new 50-50 venture would be called Altus Food Co. and be based in Chicago. Novartis is to…

Consumer confidence hits 11-year high

This content was published on Feb 10, 2000 Consumers in Switzerland are in a confident mood about spending and the general state of the Swiss economy, according to the economics ministry. Figures just released show that the index of Swiss consumer confidence reached 18 points in January, its highest level since 1989, which was a good year for the Swiss economy. The quarterly…

Swatch wins prize for design protection

This content was published on Feb 10, 2000 The Swiss watch-making group, Swatch, has been recognised for its extensive use of an international system to protect designs. The chairman of the Biel-based company, Nicolas Hayek (pictured), was awarded a medal by the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva. The medal was handed to Hayek at a ceremony marking the registration by Swatch of…

Upbeat forecast for most sectors of the Swiss economy

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 The upswing in the Swiss economy is continuing, according to experts in Zürich. Industrial companies, the service sector and the construction industry registered growth, but there are signs in some sectors the labour market is drying up. Businesses believe the economic recovery continued and spread during the fourth quarter of 1999, reported KOF, the economic…

Young internet trouble-shooter gunning for the big time

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 A young Swiss entrepreneur, who specialises in technical maintenance and communication for the Internet, says his company is to create 140 jobs by opening a help centre in the town of Biel. BNS Holding, which was founded only three years ago by 24-year-old Stefan Buess with a starting capital of just SFr2,000, will move its…

Adtranz workers lobby authorities in bid to save jobs

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 Workers at the Swiss Adtranz rail technology concern, threatened with redundancy, have handed in a petition urging the authorities to help them in the campaign to save their jobs. A petition with just under 27,000 signatures was handed in to the cantonal governments of Zürich and Basel-country, as well as to the federal authorities and…

Scientists in Geneva unlock one of the secrets of the “Big Bang”

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 Physicists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, believe they have been able to recreate conditions a few microseconds after the universe was created in the “Big Bang”. They have done it by liberating matter that is 20 times denser than discovered until now. If confirmed, the findings will bring humanity several…

Scientists in Geneva draw closer to the Big Bang

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 Physicists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, believe they have been able to recreate the conditions which existed a few microseconds after the universe was created, by liberating a new form of matter 20 times denser than any previously discovered. If confirmed, the findings will bring scientists several steps closer to…

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