GenevaLunch » merger http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +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.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Merger of two key int’l health groups completed http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/merger-of-two-key-intl-health-groups-completed/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/merger-of-two-key-intl-health-groups-completed/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 13:53:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57357 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two major players in the field of international health research have now joined forces. The Global Forum for Health Research and Cohred, the Council on Health Research for Development, merged officially at the end of April, less than six months after announcing the merger. “We hope that Forum 2012 will set [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/03/united-swallows-continental-in-merger-of-equals/feed/ 0 Nestlé says no to UK chocolate, yes to US pizza http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/05/nestle-says-no-to-uk-chocolate-yes-to-us-pizza/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/05/nestle-says-no-to-uk-chocolate-yes-to-us-pizza/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:11:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34684 GenevaLunch.com Vevey, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The ongoing guessing game about who will own Cadbury is expected to end Wednesday 6 January when Kraft unveils shareholder response to its hostile takeover bid for Cadbury, but Nestlé won’t be one of the owners. The Swiss-based Nestlé says it is not bidding on Cadbury, ending speculation that it would [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/05/nestle-says-no-to-uk-chocolate-yes-to-us-pizza/feed/ 0 Roth to head Swiss joint TV-radio news team http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/21/roth-to-head-swiss-joint-tv-radio-news-team/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/21/roth-to-head-swiss-joint-tv-radio-news-team/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34198 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Jean-Jacques Roth, who has just resigned as editor in chief of Le Temps newspaper, has been named to head the joint television-radio news team at the recently created Radio Television Suisse Romande (RTSR). The new entity is the result of the merger of public radio and television stations RSR and TSR, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/21/roth-to-head-swiss-joint-tv-radio-news-team/feed/ 1 Orange, Sunrise merge in Switzerland http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/25/orange-sunrise-merge-in-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/25/orange-sunrise-merge-in-switzerland/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:36:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32316 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The second and third largest mobile phone operators in Switzerland, Orange and Sunrise, will merge, with France Telecom buying 75 percent of the shares in Sunrise, which is owned by TDC of Denmark, for €1.5 billion. TDC will hold 25 percent. The combined company will have 38 percent of the mobile [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/25/orange-sunrise-merge-in-switzerland/feed/ 0 Vaud and Geneva put conditions on RSR, TSR merger http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/24/vaud-and-geneva-put-conditions-on-rsr-tsr-merger/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/24/vaud-and-geneva-put-conditions-on-rsr-tsr-merger/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:18:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32185 GenevaLunch.com Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The merger of TSR, public television in French-speaking Switzerland, and RSR, public radio, is meeting some resistance from cantonal governments, which insist the two editorial teams must remain separate and independent. Vaud and Geneva, in a joint statement released Monday 23 November, say they would also like to see [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/24/vaud-and-geneva-put-conditions-on-rsr-tsr-merger/feed/ 0 Iberia and BA agree to merge, but deal faces hurdles http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/13/iberia-and-ba-agree-to-merge-but-deal-faces-hurdles/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/13/iberia-and-ba-agree-to-merge-but-deal-faces-hurdles/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:17:45 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31511 GenevaLunch.com Spanish air carrier Iberia and British company British Air (BA) have ended 16 months of negotiations with an agreement to merge as equal partners, but the deal is far from done. The new company would be tax resident in Spain, but the head office would be in Britain. BA’s pension plan debt of £2.66 billion, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/13/iberia-and-ba-agree-to-merge-but-deal-faces-hurdles/feed/ 0 Competition authority oks Tamedia takeover of Edipresse http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/17/competition-authority-oks-tamedia-takeover-of-edipresse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/17/competition-authority-oks-tamedia-takeover-of-edipresse/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:42:11 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=27948 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Competition Commission has given its blessing to the proposed sale of Edipresse’s Swiss operations to Zurich-based Tamedia on the grounds that competition is not threatened by the takeover. Edipresse, Switzerland’s third-largest media company, is based in Lausanne and its operations in Switzerland are limited to the French-speaking area. Tamedia [...]

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