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• ABB Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)
• Adecco
  Adecco
  Adecco S.A. is a human resources company, based in Glattbrugg near Zurich, Switzerland. Adecco employs 700,000 temporary workers and contractors who are supplied to business clients, and has over 32,000 employees and 5,500 offices in 60 countries and territories around the world...
  
  
• Allseas
  Allseas
  Allseas Group SA is one of the largest offshore pipelay companies with 2000 employees. The company is privately owned by founder Edward Heerema....
  
  
• Alpina Watches
  Alpina Watches
  Alpina Watches International SA is a manufacturer of wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, watchmaker in Winterthur, who founded the Swiss Watchmakers Corporation . A number of watchmakers joined to purchase watch components...
  
  
• Alstom
  Alstom
  Alstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are...
  
  
• AMAG

B

• Bally Shoe
  Bally Shoe
  The Bally Shoe company was founded as "Bally & Co" high fashion in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home in Schönenwerd in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland.-Business:...
  
  , shoe company
• Bâloise
  Bâloise
  Bâloise Holding AG is a Swiss insurance holding company headquartered in Basel. The company employs approximately 7,500 employees across Europe and is the third largest Swiss all-industry insurance service provider for individuals and businesses.-History:...
  
  , insurance company
• Banque SYZ & Co SA
  Banque SYZ
  Banque Syz & Co SA is a Swiss private bank member of the SYZ & CO group founded in 1996 by Eric Syz, Alfredo Piacentini et Paolo Luban.The SYZ & CO group has specialized in asset management through three lines of business :...
  
  , private bank headquartered in Geneva
  Geneva
  Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
  
  
• Breguet
  Breguet (watch)
  Breguet is a manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland...
  
  , owned by The Swatch Group

C

• Caran d'Ache
  Caran d'Ache
  Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash , meaning pencil...
  
  , supplier of pencils, pens and other office supplies as well as art supplies
• Charriol
  Charriol
  Charriol is a Swiss manufacturer of jewellery, watches, and other accessories. Charriol is one of the largest makers of wristwatches in the world. The company was founded in Geneva by Philippe Charriol, a French entrepreneur. It later relocated its headquarters to Geneva...
  
  , jewellery & watch manufacture
• Ciba-Geigy
• Ciba Specialty Chemicals
  Ciba Specialty Chemicals
  Ciba was a chemical company based in and near Basel, Switzerland. "Ciba" stood for "Chemische Industrie Basel" . It was formed as the non-pharmaceuticals elements of Novartis were spun out in 1997, following the merger in the previous year of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz that created Novartis.In 2008,...
  
  
• CityNightLine
  CityNightLine
  CityNightLine AG was a Swiss night train service. CNL had right of passage grants in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. It served stations in Belgium, France, Italy and the Czech Republic...
  
  , is a Night Train company servicing Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
• Clariant
  Clariant
  Clariant is a Swiss speciality chemical company which was formed in 1995 as a spin off from Sandoz.- Business :The company has a turnover of around US$8 billion and is headquartered in Muttenz, near Basel, Switzerland....
  
  
• Colayer
  Colayer
  Colayer GmbH is a software product company, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2000 by Markus Hegi, the current CEO. Colayer GmbH also has a subsidiary, Colayer Web Conversations Private Limited located in Pune, India.-History:...
  
  
• Collanos
  Collanos
  Collanos Workplace is a proprietary teamwork software that ceased development in 2010.Installed on each team member’s computer, it builds a team environment and transparent knowledge store that allows to define and organize the content of project teams...
  
  
• Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman
  Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman
  Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman is a public Swiss company operating boats on Lake Geneva connecting towns in both France and Switzerland including Geneva, Vevey, Montreux, Évian-les-Bains and Lausanne....
  
  
• Coop
  Coop (Switzerland)
  Coop is a Swiss cooperative which operates the largest in supermarket chain in Switzerland. In 2001, Coop merged with 11 cooperative federations which had been its main suppliers for over 100 years....
  
  , supermarket chain
• Credit Suisse
  Credit Suisse
  The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...
  
  
• Crossair
  Crossair
  Crossair Ltd. Co. for Regional European Air Transport was a regional airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland...
  
  , now Swiss International Air Lines
  Swiss International Air Lines
  Swiss International Air Lines AG is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Airport...
  
  

D

• Denner, supermarket chain
• DKSH Holding AG
  DKSH
  DKSH Ltd. also known as DiethelmKellerSiberHegner is a Swiss Market Expansion Services Group. Although its headquarters is in Zurich, DKSH is deeply rooted in communities all across Asia Pacific....
  
  , market expansion services group.

F

• Feldschlösschen
  Feldschlösschen
  Feldschlösschen is a brand of beer. The brewery, located in Rheinfelden, Switzerland is the biggest brewery in Switzerland. It was bought by Carlsberg in 2000....
  
  
• Firmenich
  Firmenich
  Firmenich SA is a private Swiss company in the perfume and flavor business, it is the largest privately-owned company in the perfume and flavor business, and ranks number two worldwide., Firmenich has created many of the world’s favorite perfumes for over 100 years and produced a number of the most...
  
  
• Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein
  Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein
  Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG was a Swiss aircraft and railroad car manufacturing company based at Altenrhein. It was originally part of Dornier Flugzeugwerke, but was split off in 1948...
  
  , plane manufacturer, now Dornier Flugzeugwerke
  Dornier Flugzeugwerke
  Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claudius Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many notable designs for both the civil and military markets.-History:...
  
  

H

• Hoffmann-La Roche
  Hoffmann-La Roche
  F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. is a Swiss global health-care company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange....
  
   Pharmaceuticals
• Holcim
  Holcim
  Holcim is a Swiss-based global company supplying cement and aggregates . The company also supplies ready-mix concrete and asphalt including associated construction services.-Holcim Group:...
  
  , construction material supplier
• Holderbank
  Holderbank
  Holderbank can mean:Two municipalities of Switzerland:*Holderbank, Aargau*Holderbank, SolothurnThe former name of the cement manufacturer Holcim....
  
  , now Holcim
  Holcim
  Holcim is a Swiss-based global company supplying cement and aggregates . The company also supplies ready-mix concrete and asphalt including associated construction services.-Holcim Group:...
  
   Cement manufacturer

K

• Kaba Group
  Kaba Group
  Kaba Holding AG is a global security group based in Rümlang, Switzerland, and employing around 8,000 staff in over 60 countries. They are a publicly-traded company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.- History :...
  
  
• KamKorp
  KamKorp
  Kamkorp is a British-Swiss holding company owned by UK-based Indian businessman Kamal Siddiqi.It owns Frazer-Nash Research, a UK-based company that develops electric and hybrid vehicle powertrain technologies...
  
  
• Kudelski
  Kudelski
  Kudelski may refer to:people* André Kudelski, CEO Kudelski Group* Bob Kudelski, Ice Hockey Player* Carl Matthias Kudelski , composer* Stefan Kudelski, Polish audio engineercompany* Kudelski Group, Swiss Technology Company...
  
  
• Kühne & Nagel, world's biggest shipping company
• Kraft Foods Europe, international food and confectionery company

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• La Clandestine Absinthe
  La Clandestine Absinthe
  La Clandestine Absinthe is a Swiss La Bleue, or clear, absinthe brand produced by Artemisia-Bugnon distilleries. It is an anise-flavored, distilled liquor containing the herb wormwood , and when prepared with cold water will louche.La Clandestine Absinthe comes in four main styles, as detailed...
  
  
• Leica Geosystems
  Leica Geosystems
  Leica Geosystems based in eastern Switzerland produces products and systems for surveying and geographical measurement...
  
  
• Lightning MultiCom
  Lightning MultiCom
  Lightning MultiCom is a Swiss manufacturer of secure network access appliances and web-server software solutions. It also offers customized solutions in software and hardware....
  
  
• Lindt & Sprüngli
  Lindt & Sprüngli
  Lindt & Sprüngli AG, more commonly known as Lindt, is a luxury Swiss chocolate and confectionery company.- History :The origins of the company date back to 1845...
  
  , chocolatier
• Logitech
  Logitech
  Logitech International S.A. is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers...
  
   is a major international computer hardware company.
• Lonza Group
  Lonza Group
  Lonza Group is a Swiss chemicals and biotechnology company, headquartered in Basel. The firm provides a number of products and services to the pharmaceutical and life science industries, including organic fine and performance chemicals, custom manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals, chemical synthesis...
  
  

M

• Manor
  Manor (Switzerland)
  Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain with its headquarter in Basel. With an estimated market share of 59%, Manor is Switzerland’s biggest department-store chain. The Manor Group extends to the 70 Manor stores employing some 11,300 personnel, the Athleticum sports goods chain and Switzerland’s...
  
  , Swiss department store chain
• Migros
  Migros
  Migros is one of Switzerland's largest enterprises, its largest supermarket chain and largest employer. It co-founded Turkey's largest retailer, Migros Türk, which became independent of Migros Switzerland in 1975....
  
   is one of Switzerland's largest chains of supermarkets.
• Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
  Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
  Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts is an upscale international Swiss hotel chain. The hotels are primarily 5-star resort hotels and business/airport hotels....
  
  

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• Nestlé
  Nestlé
  Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
  
  , packaged food company
• Nobel Biocare
  Nobel Biocare
  Nobel Biocare is a company operating in dental implantology and aesthetic dental solutions. The headquarters are located in Kloten near Zurich, Switzerland...
  
  
• Novartis
  Novartis
  Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...
  
  
  • Sandoz
    Sandoz
    Founded in 2003, Sandoz presently is the generic drug subsidiary of Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical company. The company develops, manufactures and markets generic drugs as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnological active ingredients....
    
     (Novartis' generics division)

O

• OC Oerlikon, formerly Unaxis
  Unaxis
  OC Oerlikon is a Swiss Technology Conglomerate with a wide range of divisions and products.The different activities are organized as sub-companies: Balzers for coating services, Leybold for vacuum solutions, Oerlikon Solar for solar technology and Oerlikon Textile for textile technology.The roots...
  
   and part of Oerlikon-Bührle
• Oerlikon Contraves AG
  Oerlikon Contraves
  Rheinmetall Air Defence AG is a division of German armament manufacturer Rheinmetall, created when the company's Oerlikon Contraves unit was renamed on 1 January 2009 and integrated with Rheinmetall's other air-defence products...
  
  , formerly Oerlikon-Bührle; defense contractor
• Omega SA, part of The Swatch Group, time pieces
• Oscilloquartz
  Oscilloquartz
  Oscilloquartz, a company of the Swatch Group, is a manufacturer of frequency sources, such as quartz crystal oscillators , GPS& GLONASS receivers or caesium clocks for telecommunications applications and has been producing similar products for about 60 years. It also providers synchronization...
  
   SA

R

• Richemont
  Richemont
  Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. is a Swiss luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by the South African businessman Johann Rupert. Richemont categorizes its businesses into four areas: jewellery, watch making, writing instruments and other, which encompasses clothing and firearms. The...
  
  
• Rieter
  Rieter
  Rieter is a producer of textile machinery and automobile components, based in Winterthur, Switzerland.-History:Founded in 1795 by Johann Jacob Rieter , the company initially produced textile products...
  
  
• Rivella
  Rivella
  Rivella is a soft drink from Switzerland, created by Robert Barth in 1952, which is produced from milk whey, and therefore includes ingredients such as lactose, lactic acid and minerals...
  
  , beverage company
• Rolex
  Rolex
  Rolex SA is a Swiss watchmaking manufacturer of high-quality, luxury wristwatches. Rolex watches are popularly regarded as status symbols and BusinessWeek magazine ranks Rolex No.71 on its 2007 annual list of the 100 most valuable global brands...
  
   is a luxury watch company
• Rösch
  Rösch
  Rösch is a Swiss company that produces cleaning products.Some of the unusual product names produced by this company lead to a constant source of internet humor...
  
  

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• Sandoz (pre-1996)
• Saurer
  Saurer
  Adolph Saurer AG was a Arbon, Switzerland , based manufacturer of trucks and buses, under the Saurer and Berna brand names, and active between 1903 and 1982....
  
   - truck manufacturer
• SBB-CFF-FFS
  SBB-CFF-FFS
  Swiss Federal Railways and SFR are not in official use) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern. Formerly a government institution, it is since 1999 a special stock corporation with all shares held by the Swiss Confederation or the Swiss cantons...
  
   is the Swiss Federal railways.
• Schindler Group
  Schindler Group
  thumb|200px|Schindler Test Tower in Ebikon, Lucerne, SwitzerlandSchindler was founded in Switzerland in 1874 and is the largest manufacturer of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators world wide. Schindler produces, installs, maintains and modernizes elevators and escalators in...
  
  
• Securitas AG
  Securitas AG
  Securitas AG is a Swiss family company providing security services with head office in Zollikofen, regional offices in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Olten, St...
  
   is Switzerland's main private Security company.
• Selecta
  Selecta (vending company)
  Selecta Group is a European vending services operator. The company has over 5,000 employees, serving 5 million consumers every day through 150,000 point-of-sales...
  
  ; European vending company
• Serono
  Serono
  Serono is a biotechnology company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded as the Serono Pharmacolodgical Institute by Cesare Serono in 1906 in Italy. A key step in its development was the discovery of a method of extracting urinary gonadotropins by Dr Piero Donini allowing...
  
  
• Sigg
• Sinitus
  Sinitus
  Sinitus AG is a financial services company based in Zurich, Switzerland.Sinitus’ core business areas are Fiduciary and Trust, Family Office, Asset Management, Tax Planning, Accounting, Art Advisory, Real Estate Advisory, Legal Advice and Inheritance Advisory....
  
  
• Société Générale de Surveillance
  Société Générale de Surveillance
  SGS S.A. provides inspection, verification, testing and certification services. With more than 67,000 employees, SGS operates of over 1,250 offices and laboratories around the world....
  
   (SGS)
• Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft
  Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft
  Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft , or SIG, is the former name of SIG Holding AG, a Swiss company that has been active in various businesses during its more than 150 years of operation. Since the year 2000 the Society has undergone strategic refocus, concentrating on its core compentence in...
  
   (SIG)
• Stadler Rail
  Stadler Rail
  Stadler Rail AG , based in Bussnang, Switzerland, is a Swiss manufacturer of rail passenger cars.In 1942 Ernst Stadler founded the Stadler Engineering Office which later became Stadler Rail.- Factories :...
  
  , rail car manufacturer
• Sulzer
  Sulzer (manufacturer)
  Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm, founded by Salomon Sulzer-Bernet in 1775 and established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Today it is a publicly owned company with international subsidiaries...
  
  
• Suva
  Suva (insurer)
  The Suva, headquartered in Lucerne, is a public sector insurer and leading provider of health care coverage for employees in case of accidents in Switzerland....
  
  
• Swatch Group
• Swiss Bank Corporation
  Swiss Bank Corporation
  Swiss Bank Corporation was a large integrated financial services company located in Switzerland...
  
  
• Swiss International Air Lines
  Swiss International Air Lines
  Swiss International Air Lines AG is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Airport...
  
   (SWISS)
• Swiss National Bank
  Swiss National Bank
  The Swiss National Bank is the central bank of Switzerland. It is responsible for Swiss monetary policy and for issuing Swiss franc banknotes.The names of the institution in the four official languages of the country are: ; ; ; ....
  
  
• Swiss Life
  Swiss Life
  The Swiss Life Group is the largest life insurance company of Switzerland. The firm is headquartered is in Zurich. The Swiss Life Group has 7,500 employees and had assets under management of approximately CHF 133 billion in 2010.-Foundation and growth:...
  
  
• Swiss Re
  Swiss Re
  Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd , generally known as Swiss Re, is a Swiss reinsurance company. It is the world’s second-largest reinsurer, after having acquired GE Insurance Solutions. The company has its headquarters in Zurich...
  
  
• Swissair
  Swissair
  Swissair AG was the former national airline of Switzerland.It was formed from a merger between Balair and Ad Astra Aero , in 1931...
  
   (liquidated)
• Swisscom
  Swisscom
  Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Along with Swiss Post, it is a successor company to the former state-owned PTT. Its headquarters are located at Worblaufen near Bern...
  
   is Switzerland's national telecommunications group
• Syngenta
  Syngenta
  Syngenta AG is a large global Swiss agribusiness company which notably markets seeds and pesticides. Syngenta is involved in biotechnology and genomic research. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in total sales in the commercial agricultural seeds market. Sales in 2010 were...
  
  

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• Waltham International SA
  Waltham International SA
  Waltham International SA was founded in 1954 in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, to provide the necessary watch and movement parts, which were not readily available in U.S.A....
  
  
• Wenger
  Wenger
  Wenger is one of two companies that have manufactured Swiss Army knives. Based in Delémont, Wenger was acquired by rival Victorinox in 2005.- History :The history of Wenger S.A...
  
   (bought by Victorinox
  Victorinox
  Victorinox is a knife manufacturer based in the town of Ibach, in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Since its acquisition of rival Wenger in 2005, it has, once more, become the sole supplier of multi-purpose knives to the Swiss army.-History:...
  
  ), manufacturer of the Swiss Army knives
• Winterthur Group
  Winterthur Group
  AXA Winterthur is a multinational insurance company. The original company named Winterthur was founded in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1875. Until June 2006, Winterthur was a Credit Suisse subsidiary. Now, Paris-based AXA Insurance has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Winterthur...
  
  , insurance company.

See also

• Economy of Switzerland
  Economy of Switzerland
  The economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most stable economies. Its policy of long-term monetary security and political stability has made Switzerland a safe haven for investors, creating an economy that is increasingly dependent on a steady tide of foreign investment...