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Matchmakers seek mates for lonely beavers

This content was published on Aug 25, 2001 The dam-builders were hunted to extinction in Switzerland at the beginning of the 19th century for their fur and for food. However, between 1958 and 1977, 140 beavers were released into the wild. Today, their number has almost trebled. “Between 350 and 400 beavers currently live in Switzerland but the next step is to try…

Going bananas in Ticino

This content was published on Aug 25, 2001 Founded in 1997, Palmetto, the Blatters’ garden centre business, specialises in banana and palm trees, while also selling a range of Mediterranean plants. The 4,000-square metre plot just outside the small town of San Antonio, near Locarno, produces 200 to 300 banana plants, as well as 100 to 200 palm trees per year. A banana…

Half-year results bring good and bad news

This content was published on Aug 25, 2001 The Nestlé food group – the biggest in the world – reported another set of solid figures this week and the company appears to be heading for another record year. Nestlé, based in Vevey on Lake Geneva, saw net profit rise 12.7 per cent to more than SFr 3 billion compared with the same period…

Ombudsman gnashes teeth over dental costs

This content was published on Aug 25, 2001 Werner Marti, director of the price surveillance office, has issued a public warning that dentists are not making the cost of treatment easily available to the public. “In our opinion, every patient should have the possibility to look into the prices before he sees a dentist,” Marti said in an interview with swissinfo. The Swiss…

Bat lovers sing the virtues of a maligned mammal

This content was published on Aug 24, 2001 “These are lovely little animals, not blood-sucking vampires,” says Volker Mahnert, director of Geneva’s Natural History Museum, home of the Swiss Bat Centre. “Hardly anyone has ever seen one of them close up. We want people to get to know them and walk away a positive image,” he told swissinfo. The fifth edition of Bat…

Credit Suisse seeks affluent clients in Germany

This content was published on Aug 24, 2001 Clients will have a number of ways to contact the bank. They can speak to a personal adviser, go into an investment centre or sales office, or visit the financial portal online, the bank said. Germany is the second market, after Italy, in which this offer is being launched. In Italy, two years after starting…

Huber and Suhner cuts 300 jobs

This content was published on Aug 24, 2001 The company will also introduce reduced working hours (50 per cent) in September for 300 to 400 employees in the Communications Technologies sector at its Herisau base in eastern Switzerland. In a statement, the company said weaker investment activity in many areas of the telecommunications industry coupled with the economic slowdown in many industrialised countries…

Sika reports weaker net income

This content was published on Aug 24, 2001 Sika on Friday blamed lower margins, higher depreciation and adjustment of the value of securities for the decline. Analysts had expected a sharp fall in results after Sika said in July that profit would be hit by higher prices for raw materials in a tough business environment. In a statement, the company said it expected…

Germany to tighten Swiss border controls before euro

This content was published on Aug 24, 2001 In a statement, the German finance ministry said it fears the two-month changeover from national currencies will make it easier to transfer cash reserves back to the country of origin to change it into the new currency. The German government said it would combat the increased risk of money laundering with “comprehensive, strengthened cash checks…

Von Roll improves results

This content was published on Aug 24, 2001 A statement from company headquarters in Zurich said that sales, at SFr830 million, were down five per cent. During the first six months, Von Roll said orders rose by eight per cent to SFr994, mainly because of a contract for the construction of three waste treatment plants in Germany and the United States. Operating profit…

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