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Credit Suisse pushes Swiss GDP forecast down sharply

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:11:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Credit Suisse Thursday pushed its GDP growth forecast down sharply, from 2 percent to 0.5 percent, for 2012. The bank points to the euro crisis, which “continues to weigh on markets, with economic momentum in Europe fading unexpectedly quickly.” Switzerland will be hurt by the fall in exports due to “decidedly gloomier” [...]

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Swiss are salting away, but not money, just sodium

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:48:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss are known for their conservative approach to money, but one area where they are too liberal, it appears, is in adding sodium, or table salt, to their food. A study released Monday by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) shows that people consume nearly double the amount of salt [...]

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Lighting up (a room) more complicated with new Swiss bulbs

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:37:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com WWF shines a light on the new bulbs, with old ones disappearing next year ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The WWF conservation group is giving us a helping hand four months before the shock sets in of discovering you can’t just replace your old light bulb with the same thing. Switzerland in the autumn of 2012 will [...]

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Cheese-loving Swiss found room for another 170 g in 2010

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:21:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss have outdone themselves as cheese-eaters, climbing from their world leader position in 2009, when consumption was a record-breaking 21.4 kilos per inhabitant, to 21.55 in 2010. The new figures, published by Swissmilk, show the Swiss eating more fresh cheese in particular, but also semi-hard and very hard cheese. The [...]

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Cool! new Swiss label out for hot water energy savers

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:04:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Habitat and Jardin, a popular consumer fair in Lausanne opens Saturday 12 March for 8 days, and one of its hottest stands promises to be run by the SuisseEnergie label programme, which is launching a new hot water saver label at the fair. The label was developed by the federal government, [...]

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Swiss waistline remains stretched

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:57:02 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland takes the country’s health pulse once every five years, and the 2010 results, published 2 November, show too many Swiss remain overweight, at 34 percent of the population, with 8 percent considered obese. Only two in five persons has an adequate level of exercise. That said, the Swiss generally consider [...]

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Kandou celebrated as EPFL’s no. 1000 invention

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:10:59 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Mathematical invention part of the future shrinking of our electronic devices Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – EPFL is boasting its 1,000th invention 3 November, with the official arrival of Kandou, a new system based on mathematics whose daunting task is to try to reduce the world’s computer electricity consumption, currently 150 billion kWh per year, which [...]

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Alexandria to become first non-smoking Egyptian city

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:57:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Alexandria, Egypt is about to enforce old regulations: no smoking in public buildings. The move is the first step in a two-year plan to ban smoking completely in the city. Egyptians consume 19 billion cigarettes a year, making them “the biggest Arab consumer of cigarettes”, according to the BBC.

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Swiss shift their wine habits, 2009 figures show

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:52:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss drank more French champagne and more bottled wine from Italy, and especially more imported red wine in 2009, a year where the global economic crisis appears to have had a curious impact on wine consumption in the country. Imports rose by 3.4 percent in 2009, after falling in 2008, [...]

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21.4 kg of cheese each: no holes in Swiss record

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:12:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss are the world leaders in eating cheese and for 2009 the country set a new record for per person consumption, 21.4 kg. New 2009 figures from the Swissmilk show that in economically tight times the Swiss ate more, not less cheese, with consumption rising by 240g per person. The [...]

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