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Roche appoints new chief financial officer

This content was published on Aug 10, 2001 Hunziker, 48, has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and is currently chief executive officer of the international trading group Diethelm Keller. From 1983 to 1998, he held leading positions in finance, including the diagnostics and pharmaceuticals business of Boehringer Mannheim, and he more recently was chief…

Sharp profit fall at Julius Baer

This content was published on Aug 10, 2001 The group said on Friday the result was attributable mainly to a decline in transaction-related earnings, as well as to a rise in operating expenses. Assets under management at mid-year 2001 totalled SFr141 billion. The group said that net income from trading registered a fall of 42 per cent in the first half of 2001…

Experts issue drugs warning for Zurich Street Parade

This content was published on Aug 10, 2001 Traditionally, ecstasy is the popular drug at such events, but experts now warn that other, lesser known and potentially more dangerous drugs have reached the market. Dr Peter Iten, head of the toxicology department at Zurich’s Institute of Legal Medicine, says new brands of amphetamines pose a particular worry, especially when users don’t know exactly…

Sabena announces major job losses

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 In a statement from Brussels on Thursday, Sabena said it would also sell off its catering, cargo handling and maintenance activities, slim down its aircraft fleet and cancel eight routes. The announcement followed a second day during which the airline had to cancel many European flights as workers went on strike in protest at the…

Swiss take wider view of food supply

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 Isolated in the heart of Europe and believing itself surrounded by hostile neighbours in the wake of the Second World War, the Swiss authorities implemented a plan to cultivate crops on most of the available land. Older Swiss remember potatoes being planted in the centre of larger towns and cities such as Zurich. It was…

Swissair and airline industry face more turbulence

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 Pierre Jeanniot, IATA director-general, said that over-capacity and declines in growth numbers “point to a worrisome evaporation of traffic growth”. The Swissair Group, which is facing a financial crisis after losses in 2000 of SFr2.9 billion ($1.71 billion) is going to be hit by the trend more than most, according to Swiss aviation journalist Sepp…

WADA boost for Lausanne

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 Of the five cities still in contention to house the high-profile organisation, Lausanne, Montreal and Vienna were picked out as having “distinguished themselves” in the bidding to host the agency. The committee said that it was not criticising the other two bids by Bonn and Stockholm, but simply stating that the other three offered “the…

Feldschlösschen to cut 150 jobs

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 The cuts, to be completed during the early part of next year, will mainly affect managerial employees. Details of the company reorganisation are expected to be revealed in the next few weeks. The company hopes to improve its efficiency and competitiveness with the plan to focus on customer care. As part of the restructuring, the…

Disetronic boosts sales

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 The Burgdorf-based company said it felt confident that it would achieve sales growth of between 20 and 25 per cent for the year as a whole with a slightly higher rise in net earnings. It gave no profit figures for the first quarter. It said second half sales should speed up and even accelerate depending…

Consumers less confident about economy

This content was published on Aug 9, 2001 The fall was sharper than economists had expected and is a further sign that Switzerland’s economic situation is worsening. Although the country is still far from entering a recession, growth is quickly falling from last year’s robust 3.4 per cent. The consumer confidence index has been in retreat since January 2001 when the reading was…

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