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Migros boss to step down

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 In a statement released on Friday, Migros said Everts wanted to clear the way for his successor to continue restructuring the group. Everts has been in charge of the retail giant since 1997. Migros said it had the greatest respect for Everts and had accepted his decision with profound regret. It hasn’t yet named a…

Farmers claim millions in damages over BSE losses

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 More than 2,000 small farmers have lodged civil lawsuits against the government over its handling of the BSE crisis in the 1990s, and a second outbreak of the disease at the end of 2000. The claimants say they sustained economic losses as a result of the federal authorities’ failure to deal adequately with the problem,…

Investment firm raises stakes in battle to acquire Sulzer

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 The investment firm, owned by financier Réné Braginsky, also increased the share exchange ratio of its bid to Sulzer shareholders. They would now be able to swap one Sulzer share for a full InCentive share instead of the 0.9 previously announced. The bid also now includes a “contingent value right” which will allow shareholders to…

Unemployment rate falls again

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 The total number of people registered as unemployed is now 65,625. The number of vacancies across the country is 14,559, around 400 more than the previous month. Switzerland’s jobless rate is the lowest in Europe and compares to the Euro-zone rate of 8.8 per cent. Economists welcomed Friday’s figure as a sign that the economy,…

Visionary promotes sustainable “Celtic” future

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 On this day, a group of schoolchildren have made the trip to Markus Sommer’s farm in the hilly Guggisberg region south of Bern. They have had to change from their train to a bus and walk the last few hundred metres up a steep slope to the one-room house. Sommer places more wood on the…

Lake Geneva shore in bloom

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 Around 100,000 tulips, narcissi, hyacinths and daffodils will provide a riot of colour in the Parc de l’Indépendance. It will be the festival’s 30th anniversary, and folk music and other entertainment will add to the attraction over the weekend. It will be the turn of the nearby village of Vullierens from mid-May to mid-June, when…

Cathay Pacific pulls out of Zurich-Hong Kong route

This content was published on Apr 5, 2001 The decision will take effect from the beginning of May and will last until at least the end of the year. A spokesperson for Cathay Pacific in Zurich said the route was not profitable enough to continue a four-times weekly service. The decision to suspend the airline’s Swiss operations would be reassessed in time for…

Astronomers detect 11 new planets

This content was published on Apr 5, 2001 The scientists say the moons of one of these extra-solar planets or exoplanets could theoretically support life. Swiss astronomers from the Geneva Observatory are working in collaboration with research institutes in France, Israel and the United States. Most of the new discoveries were made by the Swiss at La Silla observatory in Chile and by…

New worries for Switzerland’s troubled national exhibition

This content was published on Apr 5, 2001 In 1999, the government promised it would provide the additional funds if exhibition organisers raised an identical amount of money through sponsorship from small and medium-sized Swiss companies. Exhibition organisers have so far only been able to attract SFr2 million from the companies. According to Expo.02’s finance chief, Walter Häusermann, small and medium-sized companies “seem…

Prizes awarded for future scientific projects

This content was published on Apr 5, 2001 The first project, led by two scientists from Lausanne, is looking at ways of grafting new and perfectly functioning heart cells onto the hearts of patients suffering from cardiac failure. Dr Freddy Ratke, a biologist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne and Dr Thierry Pedrazzini, a biochemist at the University of Lausanne…

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