Article: Swiss firms' results are mixed. (Business & Finance News).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Article: Braes Acquires Swiss Firms.(Brief ...
Food Ingredient News;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The Braes Group, created a year ago by a group of senior food industry executives, has completed its fourth acquisition, the combined businesses of Obipektin AG and Spreda AG, a Swiss-based leader in the supply of specialty food ingredients, for 16m. It is the Braes Group's first acquisition in

Article: Swiss firms post higher sales. (News ...
Chemical Week;  April 17, 2002 ;     678 words ...Givaudan (Verbier, Switzerland) posted a 2% increase in first-quarter sales, to SF635 million ($380 million). Earnings were not disclosed. Siegfried Specialty Chemicals (Zofingen, Switzerland) says its 2001 net profits tripled, to SF31 million, on sales up 14%, to SF326 million.

Article: Chinese-Swiss group seeks revised Neka finance.(Neka-Tehran oil ...
MEED Middle East Economic Digest;  April 7, 2000 ;     700+ words ...A consortium of Chinese and Swiss firms has been awarded a $103 million contract to upgrade the Tehran and Tabriz oil refineries and to build a terminal and crude storage ...

Article: Advances in Swiss manufacturing: Efficient down to the floors. ...
Chemical Week;  March 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... rank as high potency, up from 5% in 1990, he says. More than 70% of APIs will be HPAIs by 2010, he adds. While the Swiss firms are pursuing similar efficiency, quality and safety measures, there was general disagreement about what types of floors ...

Article: ACQUISITIONS COUNT: UBS Group reclaims title of world's largest ...
Pensions & Investments;  September 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... consolidation in the European market and the wave of acquisitions of U.S. firms by European money managers, said Mr. Robinson. Swiss firms' share of total assets in the ranking increased to around 11% in 2000 from 8% in 1996. Mr. Robinson believes this reflects ...

Article: Swiss fine chemicals companies raise the flag during DCAT week. ...
Chemical Market Reporter;  March 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... of fine chemicals companies have backed off of capital investments in the face of a softer market, a handful of midsized Swiss firms are stepping up their capabilities. New facilities and technologies for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients ...

Article: The state of independents: corporate governance is yet again ...
Financial Management (UK);  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... benefit from share options or receive remuneration based on the company's performance, this was true of just 17 per cent of Swiss firms. Similarly, 64 per cent of UK respondents thought non-execs would not be independent if they had been an employee of the ...