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The business week in review

This content was published on Oct 14, 2000 The week began with the French-language newspaper “Le Temps” revealing how Swiss companies were some of the leading foreign contributors to the coffers of the United States presidential campaigns. Swiss firms have contributed $1.2 million (SFr2.1 million) to the Republican Party, the newspaper reported. Switzerland’s largest watchmaking group, Swatch, announced on Monday that is was…

New consulate aims to reflect more open Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 14, 2000 From the outside, the Swiss House is a plain one-storey building. But walk through its front doors and you are confronted with an open-plan, loft-style layout with wooden floors and glass walls. One side of the room is taken up by a “digital wall” and a “knowledge café” helps visitors relax. “It’s important that if…

Swiss start-ups to learn from American experience

This content was published on Oct 14, 2000 The consulate, known as the Swiss House for Advanced Research and Education (SHARE), is being billed as the first in the world devoted to science and technology. It hopes to establish fruitful links between Swiss universities and their equivalents in the Boston area, such as Harvard and MIT. But it is also interested in encouraging…

Swiss cows make more milk the natural way

This content was published on Oct 13, 2000 Figures released on Friday show that the average Swiss dairy cow produces 17,6 litres of milk a day – or 6233 kilogrammes a year – 50 per cent more than their forebears managed in the late 1970s. This places Switzerland in the middle range for milk production among developed countries. Swiss cows lag behind their…

Georg Fischer in bid to strengthen market share

This content was published on Oct 13, 2000 Announcing the move on Friday, the company said it was joining with an investors’ group to buy the German group, Krupp Werner and Pfleiderer, from Thyssen Krupp. It intends to combine it with the two Georg Fischer companies, Waeschle and Buss, to form a new joint group. A statement from Georg Fischer’s Schaffhausen headquarters said…

Gurit-Heberlein pulls out of automotive industry

This content was published on Oct 13, 2000 In a statement on Friday, Gurit-Heberlein said it would receive SFr677 million ($384.4 million) for the shares. The company said the sale was agreed by both partners in response to increasing consolidation in the world’s automobile industry. It added that the sale would generate “considerable funds”, which would be used to expand its core synthetics…

Sizzling summer leaves hoteliers smiling

This content was published on Oct 13, 2000 Some 11.1 million overnight stays were recorded, 641,000 or 6.1 per cent more than for the same period last year, according to figures published on Friday by the Swiss Statistical Office in Neuchâtel. The result is 9.7 per cent better than the average for the past five summers. The Office said the positive result was…

Dreifuss puts emphasis on drug prevention

This content was published on Oct 12, 2000 Dreifuss addressed delegates on Thursday at a ministerial conference on drug abuse, being held in the Portuguese town of Sintra. “Ruth Dreifuss emphasised the continued and extreme use of force by the authorities when dealing with trade in illicit substances,” the director of the Swiss Federal Health Office, Thomas Zeltner, told swissinfo from Sintra. He…

Couchepin warns farmers of need to reform

This content was published on Oct 12, 2000 Couchepin’s opening address to farmers at the Olma in St Gallen focused on the need for structural reforms, which he said were necessary to reduce the agriculture deficit with the European Union and bring down costs. He added that it would be a mistake to think that agricultural reforms implemented so far were enough. Looking…

Swiss position at WTO comes under fire

This content was published on Oct 12, 2000 “The state secretariat for economic affairs, which is responsible for WTO policies, lacks clarity of vision and has not learned the lessons of the Seattle debacle.” That is the view of the Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations, which presented its arguments at a news conference in Berne on Thursday. The director of the coalition, Peter…

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