Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Carol Duval-Leroy, president of France’s largest independent champagne house, says the Vaud village of Champagne has little chance of winning its long-running battle with its giant neighbour, to use the town name on its products. Duval-Leroy’s €70 million firm in 2007 produced 6.1 million bottles of the bubbly stuff. She took […]
Swiss news
New biometric Swiss passport for CHF140
Bern, Switzerland (romandie/ats, Fre) – Swiss citizens, like their Schengen agreement counterparts in the European Union, will have passports with biometric data and digital prints in 2009, when the country will stop issuing simpler, non-digital passports. The new ones will cost CHF140. The lower house of Parliament Thursday voted to follow the lead of the […]
FEATURE / Geneva Kempinski Hotel gets new director
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Michael Henssler 2 June took up the position of managing director of the year-old Kempinski Grand Hotel in Geneva. As part of his first day on the job he proudly showed a small group of guests around the hotel’s remarkable new Geneva Suite. Hessler, 44 years old, comes to the hotel […]
Lausanne-Geneva third rail line must wait
Bern, Switzerland (Le Temps/ats, Fre) – The upper house of Parliament Tuesday morning put on hold proposals for the third rail line between Geneva and Lausanne. The Conseil des Etats made few changes to Zeb, the second phase of the railway development plan, when it reviewed it. The house cited the need to ensure financing […]
Geneva’s Cointrin Airport: strong growth
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cointrin Airport in Geneva will now focus sharply on the future, Geneva council Francois Longchamp and Robert Deillon, AIG director, said Tuesday, as they presented the AIG 2007 annual report’s ”exceptional" figures: turnover of CHF280 million, CHF51 million in net profits and a 9.5% increase in passengers to nearly 11 million. […]