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Butter prices head for meltdown

This content was published on Jan 31, 2007 Earlier this week, the country’s largest retailer, Migros, announced that it was cutting prices by ten centimes, following the lead of rival Coop that has introduced its own brand and dropped prices. The supermarkets’ stance has gained consumer support, but the dairy industry – an important sector of Swiss agriculture – remains sceptical. Butter prices…

Balmy January set to go down in record books

This content was published on Jan 31, 2007 MeteoSwiss said Zurich recorded an average temperature of 4.8° Celsius up until January 29, which was 1.3°C higher than the previous record set in 1993. The weather service said temperatures in January followed on from the highs that marked the last few months of 2006. The unseasonably warm weather comes after two winters that were…

Syngenta seeks to overturn GM farm seizure

This content was published on Jan 31, 2007 The state government of Parana confiscated the 143-hectare property near the famous Iguaçu waterfalls last November after the governor decided the property would become an educational centre for environment-friendly agriculture. Syngenta has asked a state court in Parana for an injunction to stop the expropriation, saying it wants to continue research at the site and…

Switzerland enjoys new company boom

This content was published on Jan 31, 2007 According to figures released on Wednesday by debt collection agency Creditreform, the number of new firms opening for business in 2006 rose by over a third to 10,700. The construction sector, which includes architecture, engineering and construction material firms as well as estate agencies, registered the strongest growth, soaring by 75.6 per cent to 2,190…

Maja Christina: Quite A Night

This content was published on Jan 31, 2007

Syngenta seeks to overturn GM farm seizure

This content was published on Jan 31, 2007 The state government of Parana confiscated the 123-hectare property near the famous Iguaçu waterfalls last November after officials claimed the firm’s research into genetically modified (GM) soya bean and corn was illegal. In a statement, Syngenta said the local authorities wanted to transform the property into an educational center for environment-friendly agriculture. The company asked…

Call to cut unhealthy hidden fats in food

This content was published on Jan 30, 2007 Researchers from Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology met representatives of the Swiss food industry and health authorities on Tuesday to demand that something be done to reduce the levels of these harmful “hidden” fats. Trans fats, also called trans fatty acids, occur naturally in small amounts in dairy products and meat, but are also formed…

Federal accounts show healthy surplus

This content was published on Jan 30, 2007 The result, which comes after five years in the red, will help reduce the total debt of the confederation from SFr130 billion to SFr125 billion. Presenting the 2006 accounts on Tuesday, the finance ministry said that the total surplus would be SFr5.7 billion, if the revenue from the sale of shares in telecoms operator Swisscom…

Corti blames banks for “strangling” Swissair

This content was published on Jan 30, 2007 Corti, who was chief executive of the SAirGroup – the carrier’s parent group – during its last months of existence in 2001, told a Zurich court that the company had been “strangled”. The former CEO is one of 19 top executives and board members facing charges that include damaging creditors, mismanagement, making false statements about…

Muotathaler Wätterfrösch mit “Wättervorhersage” und urchiger Musik.

This content was published on Jan 30, 2007

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