- Indication: Images are üublished by www.EQImages.ch and can be downloaded for free on: http://www.presseportal.ch/fr/story.htx?firmaid=100004998 - Amsterdam/Zurich (ots) - Liberty Global Inc. has appointed Rudolf Fischer as Managing Director of the Swiss cable network company cablecom, effective immediately. The decision was made within the scope of cablecom's greatly advanced integration and ...
Zurich (ots) - Precious Woods announced today that it successfully registered the first carbon credits originating from a forestry project at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and executed on the CCX trading platform the world's first ever trade of forestry offsets at a Greenhouse Gas Exchange. Swiss-based ...
Zurich (ots) - Dr. Alex Hinder is to leave Bank Leu at his own request during the next few months. His successor will be announced at a later date. Due to the organizational changes at Bank Leu, Dr. Alex Hinder has decided to leave the Bank during the next few months and take up a new professional challenge elsewhere. He has been Chief Investment Officer since November 1999 and a Member of the Executive Board of Bank Leu since January 2001. The Board of Directors and ...
Lugano/Johannesburg (ots) - HELSINN HEALTHCARE SA, and PFIZER LABORATORIES (PTY) LTD, announce the signing of an agreement granting PFIZER in South Africa, the exclusive license and distribution rights of Aloxi® (Palonosetron hydrochloride), a therapy for the prevention of nausea and vomiting induced by ...
Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano (ots) - The University of Lugano's Executive Master of Science in Communications Management (MScom) and Copenhagen Business School's Executive Master of Corporate Communications (MCC) announced a co-operation agreement aimed at broadening the international scope of their programs. Under the cooperation ...
- Indication: The complete presse release can be downloaded free of charge in pdf-Format under http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100009835 - Zurich (ots) - In Zurich, rent prices are as high as EUR 4.500/sqm per year making them among the highest in Europe. This places ...
Zürich (ots) - Prionics announced the acquisition of CEDI-Diagnostics. The Dutch firm is a spin-off from the world-famous Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR). Through the purchase of CEDI, Prionics will acquire a substantial number of new products and gain rights to commercialize ...
HSBC GUYERZELLER - 2005 RESULTS Zurich (ots) - 2005 proved to be one of the best years on record. Gross profits increased by 40% to CHF 62.7m, net income after taxes by 14% to CHF 64.2m. All key variables contributed to an outstanding result: 1. We attracted more than CHF 2bn in new money to be managed, a large increase from the previous year. Inflows came from all regions of the world where we are active, i.e. ...
Berne (ots) - Fiscal 2005 has been a good year for BKW FMB Energy Ltd. Despite various negative special effects such as damage to the Leibstadt nuclear power plant generator and below-average inflows to hydroelectricity plants, the annual result once more improved. In 2005 Group profit rose year-on-year by 40.9% ...
Zurich (ots) - Bank Leu recorded a sharp jump in profits for the third time in succession in the financial year 2005. The old-established Swiss bank increased its net profit from CHF 137 million to CHF 179 million, beating the very good result achieved in 2004 by 30 percent. The cost/income ratio - the key indicator of profitability - was improved ...
Lugano, Switzerland and Stockholm, Sweden (ots) - HELSINN HEALTHCARE SA, a Swiss pharmaceutical group, and BIOVITRUM AB, a Swedish Biotechnology company, announce the signing of an agreement granting BIOVITRUM the exclusive License and Distribution rights of Aloxi® (Palonosetron hydrochloride) in the NORDIC ...
Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd
- Indication: A complete version can be downloaded under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100007552&lang=2 - Zurich (ots) - "As is the case with financial markets in general, the Israeli stock exchange is tending to become less sensitive to events linked to geopolitical ...
Thalwil (ots) - u-blox AG, the number one Swiss provider of innovative GPS receiver technology, today announced the signing of a partnership with Conrad, the leading European mail-order electronics supplier. Conrad has developed a GPS smart antenna based on the u-blox SuperSense LEA-4H flagship module, which is now available at Conrad's retail and online stores. ...
St. Gallen and Zurich (ots) - Pension Invest Futura 50 is a new investment fund launched by Raiffeisen and Vontobel that combines a vehicle for retirement savings with the principles of sustainability, and is the first fund of its type to be marketed in Switzerland. It is suitable for investors for whom ethical, social and environmental values are important. More and more shoppers are choosing fair trade and ...
Lugano (ots) - HELSINN HEALTHCARE SA signed an Agreement with THERABEL PHARMA under which it granted THERABEL PHARMA the exclusive License and Distribution rights to distribute, market and sell Aloxi® (palonosetron hydrochloride) in France, Belgium, Luxemburg and The Netherlands. Aloxi® is a strong and long-lasting antiemetic belonging to ...
Davos/Geneva (ots) - On 26 January 2006 the State of Geneva convened a CEO-level meeting on global security in new technologies at the ski resort of Davos on the occasion of the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum. At the event, Pierre Francois Unger, President of the State of Geneva announced that ...
Lugano, Lausanne, Brussels, Utrecht (ots) - Banca del Gottardo and Fortis announced today that the Belgian-Dutch financial services group acquires 100% of the share capital of Dreieck Industrie Leasing AG from the Lugano-based bank for CHF 99 million (EUR 64 million). The sale of Dreieck Industrie Leasing represents a further step in Banca del Gottardo's strategy to focus on private banking activities. With this ...
- Indication: The CV of Raoul-Philip Bachmann can be downloaded for free at: www.presseportal.ch/fr/story.htx?firmaid=100009306 - Zurich (ots) - Bank Leu is combining Asset Management and Investment Products in a newly created management unit that will focus on portfolio management for private and institutional clients as well ...
Zurich (ots) - cablecom previewed its 2006 business year today and unveiled new product plans that will bolster the company's market position. In the beginning of the year, mobile telephony and the digital tv recorder (DVR) will dominate the agenda for Switzerland's largest cable operator. Since launching wireless telephony service in December 2005, cablecom has become the first Swiss company to offer TV, broadband ...
Geneva (ots) - WISekey, the world's most trusted e-security infrastructure and leading provider of Internet trust services, today announced it has appointed Sheetal Mehta as senior vice president and general manager of the WISekey's Affiliates Network Division. Sheetall, formerly a Microsoft Director in ...
Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd
Zurich (ots) - Bank Hapoalim Switzerland has successfully completed the merger with Bank of New York - Inter Maritime Bank, Geneva. As of January 3, 2006 Bank Hapoalim Switzerland will have more than 10.5 billion Swiss Francs client assets, comfortable own means of above 250 million Swiss Francs and employ 160 people. Founded in 1975 with headquarter in ...
Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich (ots) - GeoPost is optimising its cash-flow forecasting and multi-banking connections with the help of technology from Kyriba. Kyriba, leading web-based cash-flow forecasting and multi-banking Application Service Provider (ASP) have today announced that GeoPost Group Treasury has chosen Kyriba platform for its cash-flow forecasting, ...
Extended Agreement includes UEFA EURO 2008 in Switzerland and Austria Nyon (ots) - The Coca-Cola Company and UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, today announced the extension of their long-term partnership through 2009, including the UEFA European Football Championship 2008, which will be co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland. The agreement extends the exclusive marketing rights of The Coca-Cola ...
- Further information can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100004998&lang=2 - Zurich (ots) - Cablecom and sunrise announced their cooperation today in the area of mobile telephony. This makes cablecom the first large telecommunications provider in Switzerland to offer television, Internet, fixed network and mobile telephony from a single source. ...
Lucerne (ots) - The current CEO of T.E.A.M. Richard Worth has decided to leave the Company for personal reasons by the end of 2005. Richard Worth has been a long-term member of the T.E.A.M. management and acted successfully in the position of the CEO for the last two years. The Board of Directors expressed its gratitude to Richard Worth for his excellent performance. Thomas Klooz (50) will succeed him as the new CEO with effect on 1 January 2006. He has been a member ...
Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG
Acquisition complements Micronas' portfolio of state-of-the-art HD display products Zurich (ots) - Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) today announced the close of its purchase of all shares of fabless semiconductor company WISchip International Ltd. with operational headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. On October 26, 2005, Micronas had announced a definitive ...