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Pandemic leads to historic drop in Swiss foreign trade

This content was published on Jan 28, 2021 Exports and imports declined by CHF40 billion ($45 billion) in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, setting foreign trade levels back by three years.

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Pilots’ ‘high risk flying’ led to fatal crash of Ju-52 plane

This content was published on Jan 28, 2021 Safety investigators have concluded that pilot error led to the accident involving the vintage aircraft that killed 20 people in 2018.

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Explained: How to sterilise vials for the Covid-19 vaccine

This content was published on Jan 27, 2021 The majority of glass vials produced to hold the anti-Covid vaccine are sterilised by a small Swiss company in canton Fribourg.

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Funding for start-ups barely dented by coronavirus

This content was published on Jan 26, 2021 Investors poured more money into fledging cleantech and biotech projects in 2020 at the expense of ICT and particularly fintech companies. These are the findings of the annual Swiss Venture Capital reportExternal link released on Tuesday by startupticker.ch and the investor association SECA. Despite a wobble last March, and to a lesser extent in October,…

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Five steps to keep the Swiss watchmaking industry ticking

This content was published on Jan 18, 2021 The Swiss watchmaking industry is going through an unprecedented crisis. Here are five main things that it needs to do

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How a fly farm gives new value to food waste

This content was published on Jan 16, 2021 A start-up is planning to set up the first bio-waste treatment plant in Switzerland, in which a few hundred million flies will be put to work.

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Retail sector set for dipping sales figures

This content was published on Jan 6, 2021 Food retailers in Switzerland are bracing themselves for lower sales figures this year as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Charity works overtime to support Covid-stricken mountain firms

This content was published on Jan 5, 2021 Volunteers put in 15% more hours evaluating and processing the extra demand for financial support, the organisation said on Tuesday. This resulted in experts spending an extra 1,200 hours (or 150 days) visiting each project in mountain regions to determine whether they should receive support. In normal years, evaluators give around 8,500 hours of their…

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Lockdown results in record number of inventions

This content was published on Dec 17, 2020 Inventors, start-ups and businesses took advantage of the semi-confinement in Switzerland to carry out assisted searches of patent literature.

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Government forecasts drop in GDP amid second coronavirus wave

This content was published on Dec 15, 2020 The federal government’s Expert Group has forecasted a 3.3% decline in GDP for 2020.

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