- Further Information can bo downloaded at 18.00 hrs on: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100010455&lang=2 - Basel (ots) - The metropolitan areas of Western Europe benefited disproportionately from the dot.com boom in the second ...
Clear signs of growth and a return to profit Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group increased its net sales by 14.8% to CHF 91.0 million in the first six months of fiscal 2005/2006 (first half 2004/2005: CHF 79.3 million) and achieved a net profit of CHF 0.8 million (CHF -1.5 million), despite extraordinary costs related to the divestment of its test systems activities. As a result of the divestment process and the ...
Euler Hermes Kreditversicherung
- Pictures can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100009350 - Zurich (ots) - Peter Silberschmidt, Managing Director of ERG (Swiss Export Risk Guarantee), is to join Euler Hermes, Switzerland's leading credit insurer. Peter Silberschmidt has been active ...
Alinghi relies on Phonak's innovative technology to ensure seamless communication during its bid to win the America's Cup again in 2007 Stäfa (ots) - Phonak Hearing Systems today announced that it will be Official Supplier of Alinghi in its bid to win the America's Cup for the second consecutive time. The 32nd America's Cup - the oldest trophy in sporting history and sailing's most prestigious award - will be held in ...
Zurich (ots) - UPC Broadband, parent company of Cablecom in Switzerland, has reached the million threshold for telephony customers within its European footprint. This success of doubling the number of telephony customers over the last 18 months is mainly driven by the accelerated growth of UPC's VoIP (Voice over IP) based Digital Telephony service. In Switzerland ...
Berne (ots) - BKW FMB Energy Ltd has recorded gratifying results for fiscal 2005, with a further improvement in profit for the year. Total operating revenue rose by 12.4% or CHF 218.9 million to CHF 1,989.1 million, while profit increased year-on-year by 40.9% to CHF 306.7 million. The results were positively impacted by solid performance on the home market, a clear ...
Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: SAHN) is selling the power electronics business line of its test system division to US-based Intepro America, LLC., Santa Ana, California, for an undisclosed sum. Intepro America, LLC., which specializes in the marketing of power electronics test systems in the North American market, is acquiring Schaffner ...
- 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 ...