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 ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Schweiz) AG, a company of Solution24 AG, receives high-ranking delegation of CETC-Chinacomm in Switzerland. CETC-Chinacomm is one of the biggest telecommunications provider in China and a partner of VIA NET.WORKS. In May 2005 both parties signed a partner agreement and have been in an enriching business relationship since. During the five day visit, the two partners focused on the ...
Luterbach (ots) - Components also enjoys marked improvement in orders The Schaffner Group (SXW Swiss Exchange: SAHN) received a number of orders early in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year for test systems to measure EMC emissions and interference resistance. The largest single order - worth a total of USD 1.3 million (CHF 1.6 million) - came from the US subsidiary of a global product testing group. The new orders ...
Exchange of electronic invoices across borders. Wallisellen (ots) - Deutsche Post, PayNet, and SAP want to form an international EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) network together. The cooperation's goal is to make the exchange of electronic invoices across borders possible for companies on the basis of a common technology. The international solution will be realized in the close cooperation between ...
- Indication: The overview of the Bilanz rating can be seen under: http://www.presseportal.ch/fr/ - Lausanne (ots) - Orange has received the best ratings in the mobile communications sector for the third consecutive time in the new telecommunications survey, which is drawn up each year by the business magazine Bilanz. Orange can also look back on a ...
Lugano (ots) - The Banca del Gottardo Group posted a net profit of CHF 44.2 million in the first six months of 2005 versus CHF 44.3 million for the same period last year. Thus first-half results equalled the solid results recorded for the same period last year. Income from trading operations rose 11.6%. Net revenues were CHF 236.9 million (CHF 239.4 million ...
Herisau /Pfäffikon (ots) - For the HUBER+SUHNER Group, a leading global supplier of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, the first six months of 2005 were characterized by solid execution in a business environment which was less buoyant than the corresponding period the year before. The operating result (EBIT) improved by 7% to 24.3 mCHF (22.7) and the Net Income of 24.3 mCHF (19.9) ...
Lausanne (ots) - In the Forbes' survey of the Best Business Schools, featured in the September 5 edition of the publication, IMD ranked #2 among 1-year non-US MBA programs. For 2005, the top 1-year, non-US MBA programs as ranked by Forbes were: 1. Insead 2. IMD 3. SDA Bocconi 4. Instituto de Empresa 5. Oxford (Said) The survey ranked schools based on return on investment--meaning compensation ...
Ecma standardises Universal 3D (U3D) - a file format which makes 3D data accessible to mainstream business applications. Geneva (ots) - ECMA-363 covers new usage models for 3D data, allowing interactive 3D graphics in mainstream business applications such as online promotion, marketing and sales. The standard defines a Universal 3D (U3D) file format which streamlines large, complex 3D CAD datasets. Consequently, U3D ...
Indication: Complemantary information can be downloaded under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100003587 Lausanne (ots) - Orange is launching its UMTS services on 5 September 2005. The launch offer includes two data cards, four UMTS mobile phones, video telephony, Live TV, downloads of games, ringtones, music and video clips. Until the ...
Geneva (ots) - Synthesis Bank, the Swiss leader in online investment banking, has entered into a marketing agreement with Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest futures exchange in the United States with the broadest global distribution for trading futures electronically. This makes the electronic trading platform, Synthesis TradingFloor (www.tradingfloor.com), CME's only partner in Switzerland. In March ...
Geneva (ots) - In June 2005 the Ecma General Assembly approved the third edition of the standards for C# and CLI. With the first edition of the standards in 2002 and their adoption by ISO/IEC in 2003, the industry was given powerful tools to enable vendor-neutral development of Web services. Today, Ecma is ...