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Trials and tribulations
“As a youth, François Carrard used to practice breast stroke, but he did not become a swimmer. Instead, he followed in the family tradition and became a lawyer in 1967. He is currently a senior partner with Carrard & Associés, which specialises in commercial and corporate law as well as the legal aspects of sports and media. One day, in 1979, a new client appeared on his doorstep, as it were: the International Olympic Committee, the IOC…
Just rewards
The British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce (BSCC) this year launched its new Business Awards, advancing its mission to promote trade relations between Switzerland and the UK…
Big wheel
Some people just have the knack. While others get photographed in public in a wrinkled suit or chewing on something bulky, these blessed individuals always manage to look as if they were toasting a brilliant and lucrative deal with a flute of the finest Champagne or saying something unbelievably intelligent. Mário Garnero, one of Brazil’s, most visible and influential personalities…
Meals deals
Recovery or not, 2010 was a tense year for everyone. The penny-pinching set off by the recession affected suppliers to big companies as well. And yet for the catering company DSR, the year was one of its best on record. It may have to do with CEO Andrew Gordon, the man responsible for the future of this company born almost a century ago with a very different mission. Swiss Style’s roving reporter Lauriane Zonco went to find out what were the magic spices in DSR’s business recipe…
Up close and personal
Each industry has its special rules demanded by product and user. Cosmetics, in particular at the high end of the market, are governed by various such forces as intimacy versus mass market, charm versus rough and tumble competition, and everything in between. Goetz Winter, head of Estée Lauder Switzerland, has seen it all…
Health pie recut
Rising healthcare costs: that old chestnut of most countries’ political debate, which gets its fair share of recurrent press coverage – this one among them – has seen legions of politicians and citizens alike moan over extortionate insurance premiums and increasing public spending on healthcare…
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The big BRIC bricks
The media always seem surprised by sudden national manifestations like the emerging economies even though they were long in the making. And then comes the blind awe at the events. In this special essay, Marcos Troyjo takes a comparative look at the evolution and future of Brazil within the context of the other BRIC members…
The right stuff
A constant influx of individuals and companies taking up badly needed space in a tiny city has turned Geneva into a nightmare for many dwellers. Real estate companies can make a mint, but the competition is fierce. Swiss Style asked Laure Brolliet, president of Brolliet SA, about Geneva’s housing sector and the challenge of sustainable development…
Raising coin
Destiny Stenbeck is on a mission: to change people’s attitude to fund-raising. She believes firmly that through personal involvement she can raise money and at the same time encourage people to challenge themselves and evolve in their own lives through the experience. Her epiphany came last year at the latest, on July 11 to be precise…
Délire à deux
The most enduring cinematic formula produced and replicated thousands of times to cheering audiences is the road movie. The reason is simplicity: take any number of individuals, place them in an odd vehicle, send them across the country, any country, see what happens. Swiss Style found two artists working the same formula…
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