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Fragrances sweeten Givaudan figures

This content was published on Feb 21, 2006 The result beat market expectations, which had predicted a figure closer to last year’s SFr337-million profit, and will leave shareholders with a healthy dividend. Earnings per share increased by 27 per cent to SFr56.57 and the proposed dividend of SFr17.50 represents an eight-per-cent increase on last year’s payout. Group sales reached SFr2.78 billion, a growth…

Government urged to act over alpine traffic

This content was published on Feb 20, 2006 The transport ministry recently suggested that it might delay until 2017 plans to put more heavy-goods traffic onto rail. The non-governmental Alpine Initiative group said on Monday that it was still possible to meet the target date of 2009 for reducing the number of heavy-goods vehicles from 1.25 million to 650,000 per year. “It is…

Ciba sells textile unit to US firm

This content was published on Feb 20, 2006 Under the terms of the deal, made up of cash and assumed debt of SFr75 million, Huntsman will take over about 4,200 Ciba employees. Ciba’s textile effects business, which produces dyes and other chemicals for the textile industry, has increasingly been struggling in the face of competition from cheaper Asian producers. Rumours about the future…

Swiss keep time at Turin Winter Games

This content was published on Feb 19, 2006 His company, Swiss Timing, is a subsidiary of the world’s leading watchmaker, Swatch Group, and specialises in timekeeping and displaying result tables. For de Rose the Winter Games began more than three years before the opening ceremony in Turin. The first operational discussions with the International Olympic Committee took place while Swiss Timing was involved…

Geneva to host new anti-smoking organisation

This content was published on Feb 18, 2006 The decision was taken at the first meeting of the parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. The anti-smoking treaty was finalized in May 2003 and came into force last year. “The urgency of the problem of tobacco use is shared by all of us,…

Swiss Tamils look to preserve their culture

This content was published on Feb 18, 2006 Although they encountered prejudices at first, Tamils are now regarded as having adapted well to their new home. But they are still not fully integrated. In 1983 the Tamil Tigers group began fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, claiming discrimination by the majority Sinhalese. The conflict escalated and many Tamils…

Minister widens the ethics debate

This content was published on Feb 17, 2006 Speaking on Friday, Schmid dismissed the notion that preserving the moral health of the country lies in the sole hands of politicians, business leaders and lawmakers. The minister made his address in Zurich at the unveiling of a new study by the Lassalle Institute into ethics in Swiss politics. The Ethics 2006 report featured responses…

Free-range poultry hit hardest by ban

This content was published on Feb 17, 2006 swissinfo took stock of the situation and visited a farm near the Swiss capital Bern where 2,000 free-range laying hens are about to be placed under indefinite house arrest. Poultry farmer Peter Reinhard has increased his flocks tenfold since he gave up raising pigs to focus on free-range egg production in 1990. The growth of…

Deiss urges reforms to boost economic growth

This content was published on Feb 17, 2006 At the opening of the Muba annual trade fair in Basel on Friday, Deiss said Switzerland had to speed up reforms although the economy was in good shape. He said although growth was broadly based, competition had become much tougher as a result of globalisation and Switzerland could not afford to lose its position among…

Marshalling the natural enemies of Aids

This content was published on Feb 17, 2006 A team of scientists, doctors and people from the pharmaceutical industry formed the Esperanza Medicines Foundation to take the battle against the virus to the world’s worst hit areas. Alex Matter, Esperanza chairman, says the classic approach is to take expensive drugs that have been developed in the West and make them available to developing…

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