(IN BRIEF) SGS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Ministry of Economy to jointly improve the safety and quality compliance of food and consumer products across the Emirates. The agreement will see both parties launch educational campaigns, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Food & Beverage, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Security & Safety, Switzerland
Tagged complaint verification, consumer awareness, consumer protection, consumer trust, cosmetic regulations, education and outreach, food compliance, Géraldine Picaud, health and safety standards, Middle East market, MoU, partnership, product safety, Public Private Partnership, quality monitoring, regulatory compliance, SGS, sustainability, testing and inspection, UAE economy, UAE Ministry of Economy
(IN BRIEF) SGS has been approved as a Validation and Verification Body for Isometric, the leading carbon removal registry. This designation enables SGS to validate and verify carbon removal projects under the stringent Isometric Standard, reinforcing its role in ensuring … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged carbon credits, carbon market, carbon offset integrity, carbon registry, carbon removal, Climate Impact, climate solutions, corporate climate strategy, environmental assurance, Francesca Cerchia, Isometric, Isometric Standard, net-zero, SGS, sustainability, sustainable development, third-party verification, transparency, validation and verification body
(IN BRIEF) Empa researchers have developed a printable, non-swelling hydrogel made from cold-water fish gelatin, enabling the creation of 3D living skin models. Designed to replicate the full complexity of human skin, including its layered architecture and cellular composition, the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged 3D bioprinting, artificial skin, biointerfaces, biologically compatible materials, biomimetic membranes, biotechnology, cod gelatin, cold-water fish gelatin, customized wound dressing, electrospinning, Empa, Empa Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, Empa Laboratory for Biointerfaces, extracellular matrix, gelatin-based material, hydrogel, immune response, Kongchang Wei, Medical Innovation, non-swelling hydrogel, personalized medicine, printable hydrogel, Regenerative medicine, skin disease research, SKINTEGRITY.CH, Swiss research, synthetic skin models, Tissue Engineering, University Medicine Zurich, wound healing
(IN BRIEF) The World Economic Forum has revealed its 2025 cohort of Young Global Leaders – 116 exceptional individuals under 40 making transformative impacts across industries and continents. Representing nearly 50 nations, the group includes prime ministers, business innovators, artists, … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Economy, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Media, News, Switzerland
Tagged AI in policy, Awards, César de la Fuente, Climate Action, Cross-Sector Collaboration, diversity in leadership, emerging leaders, future of governance, global changemakers, global economy, global leadership, Ida Jeng Christensen, INNOVATION, leadership, leadership development, Nicole Schwab, Nomzamo Mbatha, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, policy innovation, Public-Private Partnerships, Ritesh Agarwal, Sabrina Habib, Simon Harris, social entrepreneurship, sustainability, Von Wong, WEF Geneva, WEF initiatives, World Economic Forum, YGL, Young Global Leaders 2025, youth leadership
(IN BRIEF) Stadler’s Berlin plant has secured its future with a new collective labor agreement reached between management, employee representatives, and IG Metall. Announced on 11 April 2025, the agreement includes a location guarantee until 2032, ensuring stability and job … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Berlin plant, BVG, collective labor agreement, coronavirus, economic challenges, Employee Representatives, energy prices, IG Metall, international competition, Jan Otto, job security, Jure Mikolčić, labor negotiations, location guarantee, partership, research and development, Stadler, sustainability, sustainable investment, Ukraine conflict, wage harmonisation, working hours
(IN BRIEF) Prof. Dr. Tina Freyburg’s study, published by IPW-HSG, explores the dilemma faced by authoritarian regimes in expanding internet infrastructure while preventing its use as a tool for dissent. The research demonstrates that these regimes often secure FDI in … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Politics, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged authoritarian regimes, censorship, Central African Republic, digital age, digital freedom, ETHIOPIA, FDI, foreign direct investment, global mechanisms, international tech companies, internet infrastructure, internet shutdowns, IPW-HSG, NZZ, partership, political control, Prof. Dr. Tina Freyburg, RUSSIA, state repression, Ulrich Schmid, University of St.Gallen
(IN BRIEF) Sika has inaugurated its new production plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, featuring advanced production lines for mortar and concrete admixtures and a modern laboratory. This facility, which is the company’s fourth in the country, is strategically situated in a … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Construction, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Christoph Ganz, concrete admixtures, Construction Chemicals, construction industry growth, Eastern Kazakhstan, Group Management, industrial expansion, infrastructure projects, Kazakhstan, mineral resources, Mining Industry, modern laboratory, mortar, partnership, production facility, Regional Manager EMEA, residential housing, Sika, sustainability, Ust-Kamenogorsk
(IN BRIEF) Effective 7 May 2025, Swiss Re, through its subsidiary SRILIAC, will co-manage GAM’s insurance-linked security funds, including the GAM Star Cat Bond UCITS Fund. This partnership involves managing approximately USD 3 billion in assets from GAM’s ILS funds … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Industrial, Insurance, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged asset management, cat bonds, catastrophe bonds, Christopher Minter, co-investment manager, GAM, ILS funds, INNOVATION, Insurance-Linked Securities, Mariagiovanna Guatteri, partnership, portfolio management, reinsurance, risk management, risk transfer, SRILIAC, Swiss Re
(IN BRIEF) The ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider were awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics during a Los Angeles ceremony on April 5. This prize acknowledges the collective research efforts of thousands of … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Education, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged ALICE, ATLAS, Awards, Breakthrough Prize, CERN, CERN & Society Foundation, CMS, doctoral grants, Fabiola Gianotti, flavour physics, Fundamental Physics, Higgs boson, high-energy physics, High-Luminosity LHC, Large Hadron Collider, leadership, LHCb, matter-antimatter asymmetry, partnership, quark-gluon plasma, spectroscopy, symmetry breaking
(IN BRIEF) Indosuez Wealth Management, part of the Crédit Agricole Group, has agreed to acquire Banque Thaler, a Swiss bank celebrated for its service excellence and wealth management expertise. This acquisition reinforces Indosuez’s strategy to expand its footprint in Switzerland—a … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Belgium, Business, Economy, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland
Tagged acquisition, asset management, assets under management, Banque Thaler, corporate finance, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE GROUP, Dirk Eelbode, financing, fund servicing, global hub, growth strategy, Indosuez Wealth Management, Jacques Prost, Marc-André Poirier, partnership, regulatory approval, service excellence, Swiss banking, Switzerland, tailored solutions, wealth management, €220 billion
(IN BRIEF) AFRY, as a key member of the Tram Ticino consortium, has been awarded a contract by Rete Tram-Treno del Luganese SA to plan the Breganzona tunnel. This development is a crucial element in modernizing Lugano’s public transport network, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Sweden, Switzerland, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged 2035, AFRY, Breganzona tunnel, Country Manager, intermodal hub, Lombardi, Lugano, Lugano Railway Station SBB, Malcantone, Marcel Winter, national transport, partnership, passenger capacity, Pini, public transport, regional transport, Rete Tram-Treno del Luganese, RTTL, SEK 120 million, sustainability, sustainable transportation, Switzerland, Tram Ticino, underground station, urban mobility, Vedeggio valleys
(IN BRIEF) Holcim has acquired Compañía Minera Luren, a leading Peruvian producer of specialty building materials with 377 employees, to enhance its product portfolio and accelerate expansion in Latin America. Known for its energy-efficient walling systems that combine advanced insulation … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged 377 employees, acquisition, Compañía Minera Luren, energy-efficient walling systems, family-owned business, GROWTH, holcim, insulation, integrated construction solutions, Latin America, Oliver Osswald, partnership, PERU, specialty building solutions, specialty mortars, sustainability, sustainable building materials
(IN BRIEF) Roche presented new data at the AD/PD 2025 International Conference demonstrating that trontinemab, in its Phase Ib/IIa Brainshuttle™ AD study, achieves rapid and dose-dependent reductions of amyloid plaques in the brain, with significant biomarker improvements observed in fluid … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Media, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Security & Safety, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged AD/PD 2025 International Conference, Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid plaques, ARIA-E, biomarkers, Brainshuttle AD study, cognitive impairment, diagnostic solutions, dose-dependent reduction, Elecsys pTau181 plasma test, Levi Garraway, neurogranin, Phase Ib/IIa study, Phase III programme, pTau181, pTau217, Roche, total tau, trontinemab
(IN BRIEF) Boehringer Ingelheim, via its subsidiary NBE Therapeutics, has launched a cutting-edge ADC research and development facility in Basel with a CHF 27 million investment. The center is a key part of the company’s strategic efforts to advance next-generation … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged ADC, Basel, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cancer Therapies, CHF 27 million, DGNB Certificate Gold, Jean Engela, Karl Penz, Kaspar Sutter, NBE Therapeutics, oncology research, Swiss biotech, Synaffix B.V., Vienna
(IN BRIEF) Landis+Gyr has completed a major upgrade to the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) at TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., in Tokyo, Japan, on April 2, 2025. The upgrades enable smart meters to serve as central communication hubs, connecting various devices—such … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Advanced Metering Infrastructure, AMI, cellular network, DERMS, distributed energy resources, energy forecasting, firmware upgrades, IoT platform, Japan, Landis+Gyr, partnership, retail utilities, smart energy future, smart meter, sustainability, TEPCO Power Grid, Tokyo, virtualized IT infrastructure, Wi-SUN Enhanced HAN, Wi-SUN FAN
(IN BRIEF) CERN scientists have found evidence suggesting that quantum entanglement might explain the synchronized behavior of a long-term flock of sheep on site. The study, using advanced trackers similar to those at the LHC, modelled the sheep as spherical … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged 4 sigma, Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, Beau Peep, biodiversity, CERN, Dolly Shepherd, Ewen Woolly, flocking behavior, HERD collaboration, John Bell, John F. Clauser, Lamb Shift, lambda, Large Hadron Collider, Mary Little, moutons, phase change, Quantum entanglement, sheep
(IN BRIEF) Anette Weber is being put forward for election to the Emmi AG Board of Directors during the General Meeting scheduled for 10 April 2025. With a distinguished career in finance, she has served as CFO at the Bucherer … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Food & Beverage, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Anette Weber, appointment, Audit Committee, Board of Directors, Bucherer Group, election, Emmi AG, executive leadership, financial expertise, General Meeting, GN Store Nord S/A, international management, leadership, NEW WORK SE, Novartis Group, Supervisory Board, University of St. Gallen, Urs Riedener
(IN BRIEF) Dr. Urs Leemann will assume the role of Deputy Director at Empa on 1 April 2025, taking over from Peter Richner. With a long-standing tenure on the Directorate since 2012 and experience in both corporate and start-up environments, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Industrial, Management, News, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged appointment, Cleantech Hub Dietikon Limmattal, corporate services, Deputy Director, Directorate, Dr. Urs Leemann, Empa, executive leadership, INNOVATION, leadership, Lorenz Herrmann, Peter Richner, Raiffeisen, research collaboration, strategic expertise, Tanja Zimmermann
(IN BRIEF) Tetra Pak and Schoeller Allibert have unveiled an innovative transport crate made from polyAl—a recycled material sourced from used beverage cartons—as part of their commitment to the circular economy. The new crate, developed by integrating up to 50% … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Environment, Financial, Food & Beverage, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Sweden, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Amsterdam, beverage cartons, Britta Wyss Bisang, circular economy, Food & Beverage Carton Alliance, Kinga Sieradzon, Lund, Marie Sandin, partnership, Plastics Recycling Show, polyAl, recycled material, returnable transport packaging, Schoeller Allibert, sustainability, Sustainable packaging, Sweden, Tetra Pak, transport crate
(IN BRIEF) The Adecco Group, in collaboration with Salesforce, has launched a new venture that aims to revolutionize workforce management by combining human expertise with advanced AI agents. Leveraging Adecco’s workforce insights and Salesforce’s Agentforce platform, the company will deliver … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Adecco Group, AgentExchange, Agentforce, AI agents, Brian Landsman, Denis Machuel, digital labor, human-AI integration, new venture, Operational Efficiency, Salesforce, simulation modeling, talent solutions, workforce insights, Workforce Management
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