GenevaLunch » results http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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 Credit Suisse results squeezed by tighter Basel capital ruleshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/25/credit-suisse-results-squeezed-by-tighter-basel-capital-rules/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/25/credit-suisse-results-squeezed-by-tighter-basel-capital-rules/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:13:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69464 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Credit Suisse showed a first quarter 2012 return to positive net income, Switzerland’s second largest bank said Wednesday 25 April. The results were announced before markets opened. Chief executive Brady Dougan said in a statement that the bank had a good start to 2012, and the figures were indeed better than analysts’ [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/25/credit-suisse-results-squeezed-by-tighter-basel-capital-rules/feed/ 0 Swiss business: Logitech has new head, Swiss profits slip on oilhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/15/swiss-business-logitech-has-new-head-swiss-profits-slip-on-oil/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/15/swiss-business-logitech-has-new-head-swiss-profits-slip-on-oil/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:54:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67733 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Logitech Thursday 15 March named Bracken Darrell, 49, as future chief executive officer, to replace Guerrino De Luca in 2013. Darrell, who is currently with Whirlpool, previously headed the Braun line for P&G. He joins Logitech, the world’s largest producer of computer peripherals, in April 2012, where he will initially oversee several [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/15/swiss-business-logitech-has-new-head-swiss-profits-slip-on-oil/feed/ 0 Shanghai swimming World Cup doping tests negativehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/23/shanghai-swimming-world-cup-doping-tests-negative/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/23/shanghai-swimming-world-cup-doping-tests-negative/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:03:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60891 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The 362 doping tests run for the July 2011 swimming World Cup in Shanghai have all come back negative, FINA (world swimming federation) announced 22 August from its head office in Lausanne. The tests included 311 urine samples and 51 blood tests.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/23/shanghai-swimming-world-cup-doping-tests-negative/feed/ 0 Higgs Boson hopes fading, says Cernhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/22/higgs-boson-hopes-fading-says-cern/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/22/higgs-boson-hopes-fading-says-cern/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:20:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60848 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The elusive Higgs-Boson particle is proving to be ghost-like, says Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Results from Cern’s Atlas and CMS projects were presented at the biannual Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India 22 August. Results of these collaborative projects using the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)  “show that the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/22/higgs-boson-hopes-fading-says-cern/feed/ 3 PostFinance gains new home-base customers as Swiss big banks strugglehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/27/postfinance-gains-new-home-base-customers-as-swiss-big-banks-struggle/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/27/postfinance-gains-new-home-base-customers-as-swiss-big-banks-struggle/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:37:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60216 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – PostFinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, continues to pull in new customers as the country’s two large banks cope with the fallout from legal problems with the US and a strong franc that is hurting their revenues. PostFinance Wednesday 27 July announced that it acquired 43,000 new customers in the first [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/27/postfinance-gains-new-home-base-customers-as-swiss-big-banks-struggle/feed/ 0 Swiss int’l students under pressure from record A-levels in Englandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/19/swiss-intl-students-under-pressure-from-record-a-levels-in-england/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/19/swiss-intl-students-under-pressure-from-record-a-levels-in-england/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:16:08 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=46057 GenevaLunch.com London, England (GenevaLunch) - There is enormous pressure on British university places for autumn 2010, with an estimated shortfall of  170,000 places. The results will add to pressures on students from the international schools in Switzerland, who generally take the International Baccalaureate rather the A levels, as fewer places will be available for those who [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/19/swiss-intl-students-under-pressure-from-record-a-levels-in-england/feed/ 0 Swiss flies in the black again with CHF61m profitshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/29/swiss-flies-in-the-black-again-with-chf61m-profits/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/29/swiss-flies-in-the-black-again-with-chf61m-profits/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:20:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45291 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Swiss is flying high again, with CHF61 million in profits for the first six months of 2010, after a dismal start to the year thanks to the Icelandic volcano that forced planes to stay on the ground. Profits were down compared to the first six months of 2009 (CHF65m), but the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/29/swiss-flies-in-the-black-again-with-chf61m-profits/feed/ 0 Nigerian asylum seeker in Zurich had heart problemhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/28/nigerian-asylum-seeker-in-zurich-had-heart-problem/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/28/nigerian-asylum-seeker-in-zurich-had-heart-problem/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:08:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44158 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Autopsy results published by canton Zurich Monday morning 28 June show that a 29-year-old Nigerian who died at Zurich Airport 17 March was suffering from an undiagnosed heart ailment, and his death was due to a heart attack. He died shortly before he was to board a plane to be returned [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/28/nigerian-asylum-seeker-in-zurich-had-heart-problem/feed/ 0 Swisscom report comes on heels of anti-competition finehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/11/swisscom-report-comes-on-heels-of-anti-competition-fine/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/11/swisscom-report-comes-on-heels-of-anti-competition-fine/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:43:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31418 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swisscom, Switzerland’s dominant telecommunications company, posted revenues of CHF8.92 billion Wednesday 11 November, a figure 1.8 percent below that for the same period a year earlier. Net income rose, however, by 16.6 percent to CHF1.31b, “on a par with the previous year”, says the company. The results were published just days [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/11/swisscom-report-comes-on-heels-of-anti-competition-fine/feed/ 0 Edipresse, main Geneva area publisher, moves into the redhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/edipresse-main-geneva-area-publisher-moves-into-the-red/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/edipresse-main-geneva-area-publisher-moves-into-the-red/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:56:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27735 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Edipresse, whose Swiss operations are scheduled to be sold to Tamedia in Zurich in 2010 if the deal is approved by the federal government, has posted a loss of CHF8.9 million for the first half of 2009, citing the continuing overall weak economy and lower advertising revenue. The company notes that [...]

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