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 ...
Letter of intent concerning the sale of the Test Systems sub-unit Power Electronic ready for signature Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group recorded net sales of CHF 166.8 million (2003/2004: CHF 175.4 million) in fiscal 2004/2005 in an extremely demanding environment. Order intake was CHF 173.8 million (CHF 176.3 million), and the book-to-bill ratio improved to 1.04 (1.01). EBIT was CHF 3.1 million (CHF 5.9 ...
Zurich (ots) - Jacobs Holding AG, Klaus J. Jacobs and certain members of the Jacobs family ("Jacobs Group") have successfully closed the financing of 12 million Adecco SA ("Adecco") shares to be purchased from Akila Finance S.A. The financing was made through a financing structure with Deutsche Bank AG. The share purchase means that Jacobs Group will own approx. 22.9% of Adecco's issued shares including the voting ...
- Indication: A of permitted characters with their Unicode position can be downloaded for free as pdf: www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100004516 - Zurich (ots) - On 1 December 2005 at 8.00, the character "" will be making its debut in the internet - or, to be more precise, SWITCH will be permitting ...
WISeKey launched a global partnership to expand the use of Digital Identification as part of the WSIS "Pledge to Connect the World" with the aim of increasing digital connectivity to 1 billion people by 2015 Geneva (ots) - This new initiative from WISeKey and the OISTE Foundation has been designed to allow the ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 Ltd., and TIC Ltd. from Kriens/Luzern merge, becoming the biggest Full Service Internet and IT-Provider of Central Switzerland. The two companies will be known under their new name "TIC The Internet Company Ltd.". The name stands for one of the biggest independent Swiss Internet-Providers (ISP) with EUR 18 Mio. Revenue. "Over 12.000 ...
This project will form part of an ambitious "Plan of Action for Electronic Governance". The immediate objective of the "Secure Angola Project", which is planned to start in 2006, is the establishment of a "Public Key Infrastructure" (PKI); it will be headed by WISeKey and rely on the direct participation of ...
Tunis (ots) - As part of its support to the World Summit on Information Society, WISeKey in cooperation with Microsoft and the OISTE Foundation will be providing a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Certification Authorities. Each of these Certification Authorities ...
Lugano/Geneva (ots) - Acquisition Expands Banque Jacob Safra's Private Banking Business Into Monaco. Sale Represents Additional Step in Banca del Gottardo's Strategy Implementation. Banque Jacob Safra (Suisse) SA, headquartered in Geneva, and Banca del Gottardo, headquartered in Lugano, today announced an agreement under which Banque Jacob Safra (Suisse) will ...
Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: SAHN) recorded consolidated net sales of CHF 166.8 million (fiscal 2003/2004: CHF 175.4 million) in fiscal 2004/2005, in line with market expectations (CHF 164 million to CHF 169 million). With order intake of CHF 173.8 million (CHF 176.3 million), the ...
Herisau/Pfäffikon (ots) - HUBER+SUHNER, a leading global supplier of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, is pleased to announce that Mr Guy Petignat will join the company as COO Fiberoptic + Cable Technology and member of the Executive Group Management as of January 1, 2006. Mr Petignat (47) is currently COO for Kaba Key + Ident ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 AG, receives national WiMAX test licence by the Swiss authorities. VIA NET.WORKS will be carrying out WiMAX pilot operations in Zurich and Geneva. The planned area-wide covering of WiMAX will be supported by Chinese companies - VIA NET.WORKS is conducting negotiations with Chinese carriers ...
Zurich (ots) - Prionics AG, the world leader in prion diagnostics and Pfizer Animal Health, the world's leading animal health company, agreed today that Prionics will acquire Pfizer Animal Health's diagnostic products. Terms were not disclosed. The product line includes tests for the detection of ...
Zurich (ots) - The board of directors of SR Technics Zurich has appointed me as the company's new CEO and Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2006. The job represents a great challenge in the current environment, since the global aviation industry is undergoing profound change. Consequently, after much deliberation I have decided to concentrate fully on my ...
- Notification: pictures you can find under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100000145 - Lugano (ots) Rolf W. Aeberli Swiss citizen Born on 11 March 1959 Married with 2 children Education 1998University of Michigan, USA Executive Program 1989 University of Zurich PhD in Economics 1986University of Zurich Masters in ...
Lugano (ots) - Ladies and Gentlemen At the time when I joined Banca del Gottardo over seven years ago, the bank was undergoing a change of ownership with the transfer from Sumitomo Bank to Swiss Life. This also marked the beginning of a particularly optimistic phase of vigorous expansion. For reasons which you are all too familiar with, this was followed by a period of market consolidation that affected the entire ...
Lugano (ots) - Banca del Gottardo is to focus more strongly on the private banking business and the Swiss and Italian markets. The new strategic direction will be accompanied by personnel and organisational changes. The present Chief Executive Officer, Marco J. Netzer has decided to leave the Ticino bank during 2006. The Chief Financial Officer of the Julius Baer ...
Zürich (ots) - Liberty Global Inc. ("Liberty Global") today announced that its subsidiary, United ACM Holdings, Inc. ("United ACM"), has entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") to acquire 100% of the outstanding share capital of Cablecom Holdings AG ("Cablecom") from the sole shareholder Glacier Holdings S.C.A. ("Glacier") - The terms of the Agreement value Cablecom at approximately CHF 56.22 per share, which implies a total equity value of CHF 2,825 ...
Motor-Columbus, Atel, EOS, UBS
Bern (ots) - Invitation to the press conference on the purchase of UBS's 55.6% stake in Motor-Columbus Today, 30 September 2005, 11:30am at the Hotel Bellevue, Berne The documents of the presentation will be available online from 11:30am onwards on the websites of Atel and EOS. www.atel.ch , www.eosholding.ch ...
Zurich (ots) - As of 1 October 2005, it will be even easier than before to register a domain name via the internet. SWITCH, the registry for domain names ending in .ch and .li, has redesigned the "Internet Domains" section of its website in response to changing customer needs. Users will benefit not only from the new design but also from optimised processes and functions. The launch of this new website zone ...
Pfäffikon (ots) - Horizon21 Alternative Investments, a specialist in the field of alternative investments, and Swiss Re, a world-leading reinsurance company, form a strategic alliance. They will collaborate in various strategic initiatives around alternative investment topics. Swiss Re buys a 20 percent ...