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The Swiss are tops for computers

This content was published on Jul 26, 2000 A survey released on Wednesday by a German economic institute showed that for every 100,000 people in Switzerland, 42,000 had PCs – the fourth highest rate in the world. Top of the list was Luxembourg with 73,000 per 100,000 people. The United States and Singapore came just ahead of Switzerland. Developing countries, as expected, have…

Leica Geosystems swings into profit

This content was published on Jul 26, 2000 Leica Geosystems makes surveying, positioning and guidance systems and laser measuring systems. It increased its sales by 21 per cent at SFr142.6 million. The company said in a statement it expects solid growth in all key geographic regions, and that the trend in order intake was positive. However, the company cautioned the level of growth…

Ciba to join Swiss heavyweights on Wall Street

This content was published on Jul 26, 2000 “We want to gain access to the US capital market, to broaden our shareholder base in the United States, and to gain access to financing opportunities in the US. It also makes employee share participation schemes easier,” said Ciba spokesman, Thomas Gerlach. Ciba denied the listing is intended to pave the way for acquisitions in…

Swiss are big spenders for foreign travel

This content was published on Jul 26, 2000 The Swiss are only topped in their outgoings by the Austrians, who spend an average of $1,173 a year, according to a report on 1998 by the International Monetary Fund and German central bank. In terms of overall spending on foreign visits, people in the United States spent $57 billion. But when population figures are…

Interlaken: Swiss canyoning mecca

This content was published on Jul 26, 2000 Sandy Bolland, the manager of Balmer’s Herberge, a popular hostel for young foreign travellers, said the impact of last year’s accident had been minimal. “We personally haven’t found that it’s had that great an influence on bookings for extreme sports,” Bolland told swissinfo, adding that the continued interest was a result of young people not…

Swiss hostages freed after elite police storm yacht

This content was published on Jul 26, 2000 Frogmen from Greek coastguard vessels shot dead the Czech gunmen in an exchange of fire, according to the minister for the Greek Merchant Marine, Christos Papoutsis. He identified the Czech man as 38-year-old Frantisek Veseli. He said that Veseli had arrived in the Greek port of Thessaloniki from the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, on June 26.…

Storms wreak havoc in Swiss tourist regions

This content was published on Jul 25, 2000 Police in canton Graubünden temporarily closed off a bye-road around the mountain resort of Davos following Monday’s storms. In canton Valais, an access road to the resort of Zermatt and another one in a nearby valley were closed for several hours. A stream broke its banks sweeping away a bridge. One of the areas worst…

Post Office plans pilot scheme for post finance

This content was published on Jul 25, 2000 Postfinance, a division of the post office, will open three or four shops this autumn. The shops will be located in post offices in three or four cities across the country, but the exact locations have not yet been decided. Another of the shops will be opened in a major shopping centre. “In future, it…

Petrol prices fall again

This content was published on Jul 25, 2000 All the main petrol companies have cut their prices for lead-free by about four centimes a litre. Drivers will now pay SFr1.35 a litre for lead-free 95 and SFr1.41 for lead-free 98. The price for diesel remains unchanged. Petrol is becoming cheaper because of higher production levels in oil-producing countries. Prices are now around 15…

Credit Suisse takes greater share in Swiss Life

This content was published on Jul 25, 2000 CS Group disclosed on Tuesday it had increased its stake in Swiss Life to 5.5 per cent. Swiss Life has been the subject of takeover speculation in recent weeks, but CS said its interest was purely financial and it had no strategic aims. CS added that more than 10 per cent of Swiss Life’s shares…

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