GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – GenevaLunch editor Ellen Wallace was named “Unsung hero” by the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce at its first Business Awards Wednesday 30 November in Geneva for her work in developing an online news source in English for the Lake Geneva region and Switzerland. GenevaLunch, staffed by volunteers, will soon hit the 3 million pages viewed mark, with 1 million of those in 2011.
The prize was one of five at the first annual awards by the business organization.
The other awards:
Company of the year: Withers LLP
Most Promising Business/Entrepreneur: Avaloq UK
Excellence in Customer Service award: La Cote International School, Gland
Corporate Social Responsibility: HSBC Private Bank
Some 150 people attended the awards dinner, including British Ambassador to Switzerland Sarah Gillett.
GenevaLunch has a strong commitment to high-quality journalism and is staffed by a core group of seven regular contributors and a number of other occasional contributors (see About GenevaLunch) who share a wealth of international journalism experience. Nearly 100,000 pages are viewed a month (November 2011). The news service provides not only daily news but an ongoing historical record of life in the region, in English.
The mission of the annual Business Awards is to recognize the achievements of companies who have made an outstanding contribution towards bilateral trade and investment between the UK and Switzerland, the BSCC notes. They are organized by the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Lloyds TSB Private Banking.
Ed. note: the awards dinner gave us the opportunity to talk to a number of businesses about their work and we’ll be adding them in the next few days to our resources section, which we are currently updating. Be sure to check back!
So Money Productions video about GenevaLunch, made for the BSCC Business Awards
Ed. note: I’ve posted a smaller version on Editor’s Notepad to accommodate those who have slower Internet connections, so if it doesn’t load quickly and smoothly, please view it here.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – GenevaLunch is one of 15 finalists for 5 categories of business awards given by the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce. The winners will be announced 30 November at a sold-out gala dinner at Beau-Rivage Hotel in Geneva. The awards night will feature videos of each finalist, made by a Geneva startup, video production company So Money.
The judges did not see the videos before making their decisions, but our visitors can now view all 15 videos on the BSCC web site and decide for themselves who most deserves the awards. GenevaLunch editor Ellen Wallace is in the running to be named an Unsung Hero, as are Guy Stevens of the International Comedy Club/Funny Laundry and Catherine Nelson-Pollard of Living in Nyon (both have long appeared on GenevaLunch, on resources and events pages).
We are of course prejudiced and we’re cheering on Ellen to have a chance to very publicly pay tribute to the wonderful GenevaLunch team, an entirely volunteer staff, who have brought you some 20,000 articles since 2006: quality news on Switzerland and the Lake Geneva region. We also want a chance to pay tribute to your, our visitors. At the start of 2012 we will have reached 3 million pages viewed. Thank you, all of you, for your support!
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Ingrid Deltenre, director-general, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), brief talk and questions over breakfast, part of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce breakfast series.
Location: Hotel Bristol, rue du Mont-Blanc
Link out: http://www.bscc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont…
Date: 24 May 2011
Start time: 7:45
End time: 8:45
With Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.bscc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont…
Date: 16 May 2011
Title: Simon de Pury, an expert view of the art market from the man with the gavel, BSCC
Location: Hotel Beau Rivage, quai du Mont-Blanc 13 1201 Genève
Link out: Click here
Description: Simon de Pury on the international art market.
11:45 for drinks, 12:15 for lunch
CHF85 for members, CHF105 for non-members.
Start Time: 11:45
Date: 25 Nov 2009
End Time: 14:00
Register on-line by Monday 23 November. Further details from bscc.geneva@gmail.com
Sir Rocco Forte, Geneva, 7 May 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – British hotel chain owner Sir Rocco Forte was in town Thursday to share his thoughts on the state of the economy with the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and to officially open the terrace of hotel Le Richemond, which he closed for nearly two years for major renovations.
