GenevaLunch » Business http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Solar Impulse pilot clocks extraordinary 18 hours to Madridhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70525 GenevaLunch.com Swiss pioneering plane hosted by Morocco as construction begins on world’s largest thermo-solar power plant LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – André Borschberg flew Solar Impulse for 17h 3min 59s Thursday 24 May, to land the experimental solar plane at Madrid’s Barajas airport. He flew from the Payerne aerodrome in Switzerland over the Massif Central towards the city [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/feed/ 0 Contraband bees set customs buzzinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/contraband-bees-set-customs-buzzing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/contraband-bees-set-customs-buzzing/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 13:27:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70495 GenevaLunch.com Swiss dismantle “large” contraband scam that could endanger bee population BERN, SWITZERLAND – Customs officials working closely with the federal agriculture office have uncovered a scam to bring in cheap and possibly unhealthy bees from abroad, in large numbers, by convincing farmers that these are Ticino born and bred bees. The world’s bee populations are [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/contraband-bees-set-customs-buzzing/feed/ 0 HP to lay off 27,000http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/hp-to-lay-off-27000/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/hp-to-lay-off-27000/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 21:26:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70475 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hewlitt-Packard, which has its Europe-Africa-Middle East head office in Meyrin, Geneva, announced Wednesday from its head office in California that it expects some 27,000 employees, about 8 percent of its global workforce “to exit the company” by the end of 2014. Details about where the job cuts will take place have not [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/hp-to-lay-off-27000/feed/ 0 Swiss bank surveillance gets tougherhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/swiss-bank-surveillance-gets-tougher/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/swiss-bank-surveillance-gets-tougher/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 16:08:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70464 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss financial surveillance body Finma will be keeping a closer eye on Swiss banks, particularly the two big banks UBS and Credit Suisse, under rules approved by the governing Federal Council Wednesday 23 May. Finma will work more closely with corporate auditors and strengthen its field team with the goal of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/swiss-bank-surveillance-gets-tougher/feed/ 0 Message to older workers: we love you, we want you but not just yethttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/message-to-older-workers-we-love-you-we-want-you-but-not-just-yet/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/message-to-older-workers-we-love-you-we-want-you-but-not-just-yet/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 14:52:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70450 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A growing shortage of qualified labour in Switzerland, according to research carried out for online employment agency Monster.ch, is encouraging companies to reconsider older workers. The prognosis for those over 50 is brighter than in the past, with 75 percent of companies saying they see recruitement of people over age 50 as [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/trafigura-to-move-trading-headquarters-to-singapore/feed/ 0 Vandals damage experimental high-tech boathttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/vandals-damage-experimental-high-tech-boat/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/vandals-damage-experimental-high-tech-boat/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 13:33:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70428 GenevaLunch.com In unrelated incident, fire damages Renens train station and bikes LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Vandals have damaged the high-tech Hydroptère experimental “flying boat” moored in Morges, causing as yet uncalculated damages, says Vaud police. And in a separate incident, which may have been an accident, a fire has damaged the roof of the east side of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/vandals-damage-experimental-high-tech-boat/feed/ 0 Ski resorts worst hit as Swiss tourism suffers through 2012 slidehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/ski-resorts-worst-hit-as-swiss-tourism-suffers-through-2012-slide/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/ski-resorts-worst-hit-as-swiss-tourism-suffers-through-2012-slide/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70406 GenevaLunch.com Bright news is that 2013 should be better BERN, SWITZERLAND – Glum news out of Bern for the Swiss tourism industry Tuesday 22 May won’t surprise anyone: the strong franc and weak euro are hurting the tourism industry this year. The latest forecast for the summer season is a drop of 1.7 percent overall, but [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/ski-resorts-worst-hit-as-swiss-tourism-suffers-through-2012-slide/feed/ 0 Swiss consumers say outlook brighter, but not likely to save morehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/swiss-consumers-say-outlook-brighter-but-not-likely-to-save-more/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/swiss-consumers-say-outlook-brighter-but-not-likely-to-save-more/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 08:01:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70380 GenevaLunch.com Consumers see inflation as stronger and expect it to increase in next 12 months BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss consumer confidence is rising, with the quarterly index of Seco, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs showing a marked increase in two key areas. The survey carried out at the end of April shows that “consumer expectations [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/swiss-consumers-say-outlook-brighter-but-not-likely-to-save-more/feed/ 0 Lufthansa Technik to cut 200-plus jobs in Baselhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/lufthansa-technik-to-cut-200-plus-jobs-in-basel/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/lufthansa-technik-to-cut-200-plus-jobs-in-basel/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70294 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Lufthansa Technik, a subsidiary of the parent of Swiss, the airline, is going on a strict died, restructuring to focus on just one product. The company will cut 82 of its 302-person workforce as a result. The move comes as a result of the high franc and tough airline market conditions, the [...]

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