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Sweet-toothed Swiss munch through 4100 tonnes of chocolate bunnies and eggs

This content was published on Apr 21, 2000 The Easter bunny has brought Swiss chocolate manufacturers a special present – sales have shot up over the holiday period to an estimated 4100 tonnes. However, the Federation of Swiss Chocolate Manufacturers, Chocosuisse, said sales did not beat the record set in 1997, when 4250 tonnes of chocolate were sold. Chocosuisse director, Franz Schmid, said…

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This content was published on Apr 21, 2000 European bourses were hit on Monday by a bad case of the jitters, as dealers were left reeling from Wall Street’s biggest one day point loss the previous Friday. The main casualty was high-tech stocks. Seen by many analysts as overvalued, new economy stocks have been suffering heavily in the recent sell-off. However this has…

Swiss goods regarded as expensive world-beaters

This content was published on Apr 21, 2000 “Made in Switzerland” is a label that reassures consumers around the world, according to a new study by the University of Berne. The findings are based on interviews carried out between 1991 and 1997 with 3400 senior managers in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the United States. Those questioned regarded Swiss-made goods as…

Germany gets behind Swiss road-to-rail-plans

This content was published on Apr 20, 2000 The German transport minister, Reinhard Klimmt (pictured right), has expressed support for Swiss plans to transfer freight traffic from road to rail. He made the remarks following talks with his Swiss counterpart, Moritz Leuenberger (left), in Berlin. Klimmt also told Leuenberger that Germany would follow Switzerland’s lead in introducing a tax on heavy goods vehicles.…

Hike in postal rates blocked

This content was published on Apr 20, 2000 The communications ministry has blocked a planned rise in the cost of postage stamps. The Post Office had wanted to introduce new tarifs for letters and parcels in July. First class stamps would have gone up from the uniform rate of SFr0.90 to between SFr1 and SFr1.50, according to weight. Second class postage was to…

Jura demands immediate closure of Bonfol chemical dump

This content was published on Apr 19, 2000 The authorities in in the Swiss canton of Jura are demanding the immediate closure of the Bonfol chemical dump. The president of the Jura cantonal government, Pierre Kohler, said the area was contaminated. He told a news conference that chemical substances had leaked from the dump and had seeped into the water table. Bonfol was…

Railways unable to cope with Lothar timber

This content was published on Apr 19, 2000 Attempts to clear Swiss forests of trees knocked down by Hurricane Lothar are grinding to a halt. The federal railways says it will soon no longer have the capacity to transport the timber. Railways and forestry officials are now calling on owners of tracts of forest not to gather more timber than can be transported.…

Swisscontact donations up SFr500,000 in 1999

This content was published on Apr 19, 2000 The development aid organisation, Swisscontact, has benefited from increased media exposure over the last year, leading to a rise in donations. Officials told a news conference in Zurich donations in 1999 were SFr3.5 million – SFr500,000 more than in the previous year. The group, which has been operating for the past 40 years, brings together…

Switzerland rises in competitiveness table

This content was published on Apr 19, 2000 A new survey for the first time places Switzerland among the top five most globally competitive countries. However, the report by the Lausanne-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) says Switzerland could do better. The United States leads the league table of 47 countries, which is compiled using 290 criteria. Switzerland moves up one place…

Zurich zoo plans jumbo Net event

This content was published on Apr 18, 2000 Zurich’s zoo plans to broadcast the birth of an elephant calf live on the Internet next month. The zoo describes the event as an Internet premiere. The zoo says it will start carrying pictures “within the next few days” on its website (see below) because the exact date of the birth is uncertain. Those who…

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