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Food exhibition serves up sensual feast

This content was published on Apr 23, 2003 “Food Design” shows that there is much more to food than flavour by exploring the links between preparation and packaging, and offering a menu to suit all tastes. None of the exhibits on display is actually edible – the “foodstuffs” are made of plastic and other materials. But from its hors d’oeuvres through to dessert,…

Skyguide faces multimillion crash claim

This content was published on Apr 23, 2003 German lawyers Michael Witti and Gerrit Wilmans are calling for around SFr150 million ($109 million) to be put into a special compensation fund. The German lawyers have threatened to take the matter to court if no settlement is reached. The legal team claims the Swiss air traffic control agency, Skyguide, is partly to blame for…

Innovation key as mouse giant roars ahead

This content was published on Apr 23, 2003 Net profit for its fiscal year rose by 32 per cent to $99 million (SFr136.32 million) on sales of $1.1 billion. At a news conference in Zurich, the company’s chairman and co-founder Daniel Borel said it “felt good” to have broken the one billion dollar revenue mark. “It took us 22 years to get there.…

Logitech increases sales and profit

This content was published on Apr 23, 2003 In a statement on Wednesday, the company said operating income for the year had risen 27 per cent to $124 million (SFr170 million). Net income totalled $99 million. Sales were up 17 per cent at $1.1 billion. The figures were slightly better than expected. Analysts had forecast operating income of $122 million and net profit…

Medium-sized firms flee stock market

This content was published on Apr 22, 2003 The latest well-known company to join their ranks is the food manufacturer Hero. For some companies, being listed on the stock market has more cons than pros. “I prefer to turn my back on the stock market,” said Nick Hayek Jr, the CEO of the Swatch group, recently in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper. “Take the example…

Travel industry proves resistant to crises

This content was published on Apr 22, 2003 As the winter season came to an end, business hotels reported being hard hit but the rest of the industry is proving resistant to the crises. From the swimming pool on the top floor of the swissôtel Zurich, guests can see planes taxiing onto the runway at the city’s international airport. About 80 per cent…

Swiss asbestos victims struggle for compensation

This content was published on Apr 22, 2003 The Organisation for Victims of Asbestos says the long-term effects of working with the mineral fibre have been cloaked in secrecy and victims are often unaware of their rights. “People in the United States know about their rights because of trials that have taken place,” Massimo Aliotta, a lawyer for the Zug-based organisation, told swissinfo.…

Zurich goes tropical

This content was published on Apr 21, 2003 It feels like a tropical rainforest at the dawn of creation, but it is in fact a giant greenhouse near the centre of Switzerland’s busiest metropolis – Zurich. This is a small-scale model of the Masoala Rainforest in Madagascar, home to one of the richest biodiversities in the world. The construction – forming part of…

Swiss take pride in Belle Epoque steamers

This content was published on Apr 20, 2003 Although their charm is widely appreciated, keeping the steamers shipshape is no easy matter. “When we work on a boat like this, we have to approach it with great care,” said Jean-Marc Naucelle, in charge of restoration work on “La Suisse”, the flagship of the General Navigation Company (CGN) of Lake Geneva. Squeezed into a…

Swiss chairman questions need for a national airline

This content was published on Apr 20, 2003 He also insists the company does not have liquidity problems. In an interview with the business magazine “Finanz und Wirtschaft” on Saturday, Bouw said the aviation market should be more open, and that competing international airlines should cooperate more with each other. His statement comes after speculation last week that Switzerland’s national airline was holding…

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