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Novartis to invest in French plant

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The Swiss life sciences group Novartis in Basel says it is to invest SFr136 million at its nearby Huningue site in Alsace, France, to produce revolutionary asthma and allergy treatment. A statement said the Board of Directors had approved the investment to develop the Novartis Biotechnology Centre. Construction and installation activities are underway and production…

Merkt awarded annual Latsis Prize

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The annual Latsis Prize, awarded in recognition of outstanding research by scientists under 40, has been awarded to Frédéric Merkt for his work in the field of physical chemistry. The 33 year-old professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich takes home prize money worth SFr100,000. Merkt’s research has focussed on understanding how molecules…

Swisscom considers property sales

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The Swiss telecommunications giant, Swisscom, says it is considering the sale of a large amount of property belonging to its Swisscom Immobilien Invest AG subsidiary. “Current market conditions are considered favourable and should allow the transaction to be completed in the second half of the year 2000,” Swisscom said in a statement. Without specifying how…

Swiss cities best places to live

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 The Swiss capital, Berne, and the country’s financial centre, Zurich, are two of the cities with the best standard of living in the world, according to a new study. The survey, published on Thursday by the London-based human resources consultants, William K. Mercer, put the two Swiss cities at the top of the list, together…

Local governments at their limit

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 Many of Switzerland’s local authorities are reaching the limits of their capabilities according to a study by the Swiss National Science Foundation. For the past two and a half years the Foundation has been looking at the problems facing local government and the pace at which reforms have taken place. With 2,900 municipalities, Switzerland has…

Roche sales rise 12 per cent

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 Sales at the Basel-based pharmaceuticals group, Roche, rose 12 per cent last year, to SFr27.6 billion. That is above analysts’ expectations of about nine per cent growth. Roche said it expected to post good results for 1999, excluding special items, such as the floating of part of its US biotechnology unit Genentech, and the fines…

Memorial service for Crossair crash victims takes place

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 A memorial service is underway for the ten people who died in Monday’s Crossair plane crash near Zurich. The transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger, is representing the Swiss government at the service in Basel cathedral. Also attending are diplomats from Germany, France, Spain, Moldova and Slovakia, the countries from which the seven passengers and three crew…

Trade unions want more jobs, better wages

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 The Swiss Trade Union Federation has demanded more income for those on low and medium salaries, and a flexible retirement age. It also argued that more jobs had to be created in Switzerland. Looking back over the past decade at its annual news conference in Berne, the federation president, Paul Rechsteiner, said that the rich…

SIG cuts jobs and sells arms division

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 The Swiss industrial company, SIG, has announced major plans for restructuring that will cost 370 jobs in Switzerland, Germany and the United States. At a news conference in Zurich, the Schaffhausen-based company said around 60 people would take early retirement, but it said redundancies could not be ruled out. In Switzerland, 110 jobs will be…

Trade unions for more jobs, better wages

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 Swiss trade unions are pressing for more jobs, higher wages and further reforms to the old-age pension scheme. At its annual news conference in the capital, Berne, the Trade Union Federation said these were its main targets for the year 2000. The federation’s chief economist, Serge Gaillard, said despite the fall in unemployment to 2.1…

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