Yahoo boss gets the boot, via phone
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Carol Bartz, the woman who promised to turn around Yahoo after replacing founder Jerry Yang as CEO in 2008, has been fired, apparently for failing to live up to...
View ArticleSteve Jobs, founder of Apple, dies
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, died Wednesday, age 56. The news was announced by Apple in a brief tribute on the company’s home page: “Apple has lost a...
View ArticleUBS gets new boss, Credit Suisse gets Moody’s warning
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – UBS will have a new boss: Sergio Ermotti, 51, who has been the ad interim chief executive of Switzerland’s largest bank since 24 September, has been named to the...
View ArticleStrikes and protests in Geneva area: Hug calls for calm, Novartis boss visits
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug university hospitals in Geneva late Friday pleaded for everyone involved in its lab workers strike to get the situation back to normal, in the wake of the...
View ArticleRicola boss commits suicide
GenevaLunch News BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Adrian Kohler, 53, chief executive of Ricola, the Swiss herbal sweets company, committed suicide Thursday 24 November, the company announced Friday. He sent a...
View ArticleWWF Switzerland gets ex-corporate man as new leader
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – WWF Switzerland will have Thomas Vellacott, 41, as its chief executive officer in mid-May 2012, when Hans-Peter Fricker retires. Vellacott won out over nearly 300...
View ArticleJaton named new head of Montreux Jazz Festival
GenevaLunch News Series of memorial events for Claude Nobs announced by MJF board MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND – Mathieu Jaton was named the new general director/chief executive of the Montreux Jazz Festival...
View ArticleVasella leaving Novartis after 17 yrs, ex-no. 2 brought in
GenevaLunch News Company expects 2013 to solidly match 2012 despite generics fight BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Daniel Vasella, who has led Novartis for 17 years to its position today as Europe’s largest...
View ArticleCredit Suisse’s Dougan gets CHF2m more, bank sets aside
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Brady Dougan isn’t the person who sets his pay, as chief executive officer and not chairman of the board of Credit Suisse. But his 34 percent increased...
View ArticleFormer UK foreign secretary Miliband leaves politics
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – David Miliband, former British foreign secretary and brother of Labour leader Ed Miliband, is stepping down as a member of Parliament in order to head a US-based...
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