Largest supermarket calls on suppliers to cut prices GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Migros, the country’s largest supermarket chain, said Friday 23 January that it is lowering prices for fruits and vegetables that come from the euro zone, by 10 to 30 percent. It called on its suppliers to immediately adapt their prices to reflect the weaker […]
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Lausanne schools to skip meat, fish
One day a week off, for school cafeterias LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Daycare centre and school cafeterias in Lausanne will have one meat- and fish-free day at week, following a vote by the city council. The motion to have a vegetarian day was presented by the Green Party and other politically Left parties, who also proposed […]
Swiss franc, wine buying: jury still out
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Currency swings prompt a type of reporting all their own, and it isn’t the best journalism, stories pushed into an editor’s assumptions. It’s an approach akin to trying to fit a size 14 body into a size 10 dress. So if you read an article like this one in The Drinks Business, […]
2013 was as bad as we thought, for Vaud vineyards
Vines suffered – but the wine is very good! LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The weather catastrophes in 2013 left a strong mark on canton Vaud’s vineyards, and now we have the statistics from the canton to prove it. Only 21 million litres of wine were made, a 28 percent drop compared to the average for the […]
London’s Alpine bars, long way from the slopes
Give me a cool Fendant and a fondue in a Swiss resort any day, compared to a London city centre Alpine experience – but hey, not everyone is as lucky as those of us in Switzerland! So for those stuck in the city, here is a list of the top 10 Alpine bars in London, […]