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 […]
World wine consumption stable, production up
Spain now 2nd largest producer GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The world’s wine drinkers are holding steady, consuming nearly 239 million hecolitres of wine in 2013, the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) in Paris said this week. Production increased last year, however, by 8.5 percent worldwide, compared to the weak production in 2012. Spain in […]
Ellen on the wall!
I visited the new offices in Sierre of the Vinea Association yesterday and to my great surprise found that I am hanging on their wall! I’m not the only one, I hasten to add: they’ve put up lovely large photos of people from some of their events. This photo of me was taken at the […]