The start of public trading of Chinese social media Weibo is making world financial news headlines today, with US media such as CNN Money urging investors in the US to exercise caution and the BBC (oddly, in an article dated 18 April 2014) wondering how it will fare, with a certain amount of fuzziness about […]
Archives for April 2014
Geneva Marathon runners get tap, not bottled water
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – More than 10,000 runners are registered for the Geneva Marathon for Unicef, three weeks before the 3-4 May event. And this year they’ll find there’s a difference: their all-critical water supply won’t come from plastic bottles but from mains water. The SIG, which supplies Geneva’s water, has been on a campaign to […]
Easter traffic jams have started
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – In case you’ve forgotten, this is not a good day to take north-south autoroutes in Switzerland, with Easter/spring school holidays starting in several Swiss cantons and neighbouring countries. Saturday morning saw a 1h30 delay for heading south through the Gotthard tunnel, with a 10km tailback. The A1 heading towards Geneva is also […]
Sweet news: Frey in N America, Lindt wins Haribo dispute
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s largest chocolate company, Migros-owned Frey, has just acquired Sweetworks in Buffalo, New York and its sister firm Oak Leaf Confections in Toronto, Canada to increase its presence in North America, notably in northern US states and Canada. The deal is retroactive to 1 January and involves no changes in personnel or […]
CTA is what it’s all about for winery web sites
The CTA, or call to action, is the most critical part of a winery’s web site boutique for online sales, according to Grapegrower and Winemaker, a New Zealand/Australian media. And it is too often overlooked or poorly understood. The publication cites figures from Wine Searcher that “the global online wine market is worth about $5 billion […]