2024-01-20 16:32:36
Boris Collardi should save FC Schaffhausen
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According to media reports, Boris Collardi’s participation in FC Schaffhausen is imminent.
Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi (Keystone)
He was the shooting star of Swiss banking: Boris Collardi At the age of 34, he became head of Bank Julius Baer and, with 43 partners, co-owner of the Geneva bank Pictet. Then his time with Bär caught up with him. The financial market regulator reprimanded him for money laundering cases. Then he took his hat off to Pictet. Two years ago he joined the private bank EFG as a board member and also holds stakes in several companies.
Now people in Schaffhausen are hoping that Collardi will save the stumbling football club. Its main sponsor, Berformance, a rather strange financial company, recently landed on the warning list of the German financial regulator. According to media reports, Collardi’s participation in FC Schaffhausen is imminent. For the desperate fans, Finma’s reprimand seems harmless – the main thing is that someone ensures that the club finally gets away from last place in the Challenge League.
Nestlé is in a political quandary
“As a company, we shouldn’t do politics.” Former Nestlé boss dictated this sentence Peter Brabeck his successors in an interview with the NZZ. This is what the current head of the group sees, Mark Schneider (Photo), apparently different. Last year, Nestlé was among over a hundred companies that pushed for a new EU law that would require member states to restore degraded nature.
Nestlé boss Mark Schneider: Who can’t be against racism and populism?
Photo: Wikimedia
And this week, Nestlé’s German subsidiary was drawn into a campaign against a “xenophobic and anti-European, small-minded populist, Russia-loving, anti-system extremist alternative.” What was meant was the AfD. The campaign comes from the Federal Association of the German Food Industry, of which Nestlé Germany is a member.
The company headquarters in Vevey does not want to officially comment on this, but discomfort can be heard and felt. The company is in a political quandary. After all, who can’t be against racism and populism, even if one in five German customers votes for AfD?
The WEF wasn’t a party this time
No reason to shake a leg: Klaus Schwab (85), founder of the World Economic Forum.
Photo: Markus Schreiber (AP)
At the World Economic Forum in Davos things were quieter than before. There were no lavish parties on a large scale this year. The busy calendars that many WEF guests have are to blame. They rush from one meeting to the next, so they prefer to go to bed early at night rather than spend the night until the early hours of the morning. And companies have noticed that due to crises and wars in the world, it is not a good time for exuberant celebrations. WEF founder Klaus Schwab should be very happy about the lack of party atmosphere. Because at 85 years old, he probably no longer dances as elegantly as he did.
Roger Federer can’t smile away everything
It wasn’t a good week for On in terms of marketing. The “K-Tipp” made it known that the Swiss sporting goods manufacturer in Vietnam pays 18 francs for shoes that it sells to Swiss customers for 190 francs. It’s cheaper to buy shoes from the outdoor specialist Transa. But only because he wants to get rid of the shoes.
Swiss tennis legend in the shoe business: On brand ambassador Roger Federer.
Photo: Pino Covino
About a year ago he decided to take them out of the range and is now selling them off at a discount price. According to a spokeswoman, this is done for strategic reasons and because return rates are too high. In other words: poor quality. The smile from the On brand ambassador is also helpful Roger Federer no longer.
Swisscom’s AI deal draws criticism
Swisscom-Chef Christoph Aeschlimann used his visit to the WEF to publicly announce a collaboration with Nvidia. Swisscom is investing more than 100 million francs in the US chip manufacturer’s artificial intelligence (AI) program. Aeschlimann met Keith Strier, who is responsible for the global AI initiative at Nvidia, in Davos.
Bets on a controversial horse with Nvidia: Christoph Aeschlimann, CEO of Swisscom.
Photo: Christian Beutler (Keystone)
Professionals view collaboration on social networks with skepticism. Swisscom is investing a large sum in a company that has lost its innovative strength. In addition, Nvidia has recently delivered declining financial results. The critics arrived at their assessment without the help of artificial intelligence – rather, they link to Nvidia’s good old quarterly figures in their articles.
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