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Bike company to electrify exports

This content was published on Nov 20, 2011 The manufacturer of the electric bike Stromer recently got the kind of publicity no money can buy: images of Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively riding high in Stromer saddles through the streets of New York. But the brains behind the bike, Thomas Binggeli, was faced with a dilemma. His pedelec (pedal+electric), which was…

TAG Heuer invests millions in production

This content was published on Nov 19, 2011 The company, which is now part of the world’s largest luxury goods group, the French concern LVMH, will create 150 extra jobs. It already employs 1,000 people in Switzerland. TAG Heuer communications head Françoise Bezzola has confirmed a report which appeared in Saturday’s Le Temps newspaper. Building work should begin in February 2012, she told…

Occupy protestors to move location

This content was published on Nov 19, 2011 The demonstrators said that although central, the area at the Protestant church of St Jakob was simply too small and they would have to find another location. They added in a statement quoted on the Swiss news agency that they regretted that some members of the congregation, including a local politician, had left the church…

Youth able to order alcohol online

This content was published on Nov 19, 2011 It found that 34 out of 82 orders (41.5 per cent) carried out on the internet by minors in spring 2011 were successful. The results of this pilot test have been published in the latest edition of the board’s Alcohol and Politics magazine. Under Swiss law beer and wine cannot be sold to anyone under…

The art of toilets

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 Students from the industrial design and visual communication departments at Ecal look at a problem familiar to 40 per cent of the world’s population: a lack of toilets.

Getting your Neckers in a twist

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 swissinfo.ch looks at the life and work of a man who was born into a family of Geneva geniuses and died a childless recluse on a Scottish island, making a key contribution to the study of perception along the way. Louis Albert Necker de Saussure was the eldest of four children born into an academically…

Alstom faces possible bribery charges

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 French newspaper Le Monde reported on Friday that Alstom was suspected by Swiss authorities “to have paid, between 2003 and 2010, tens of millions of euros in bribes and kickbacks to public and foreign officials”. The paper, which did not cite its sources, said the prosecutor’s office was “on the point” of issuing a conviction against Alstom…

Have Swiss bankers had their heyday?

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011

Big banks underwhelm with strategy “changes”

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 Both banks have recently signalled their intention to scale back investment banking operations under the guise of putting wealthy clients first. But the changes have not gone far enough for some observers. In a note to investors, Bank Sarasin described UBS’s restructuring – announced on Thursday – as “evolution not revolution”. The note expressed disappointment…

Household wealth on the rise

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 The main reasons for the increase were the persistently high level of saving by households and a further advance in real estate prices. By contrast, currency movements reduced the growth in household wealth by some SFr25 billion. Breaking down the figures, the SNB said financial assets held by households grew last year by SFr49 billion…

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