When Bill Gates, James Dimon, Nouriel Roubini and Mick Jagger choose to spend five days in the same small Swiss town, what they crave is influence.
The news comes from Credit Suisse whose annual Megatrends survey shows Swiss small and medium-sized companies becoming both more optimistic about their businesses and more positive about globalization.
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Ursula Biondi's mother, for example, received a bill for 7, 000 Swiss francs, a small fortune at the time.
As of 20 June, 212 people seem to have done so which is small even by the standards of Swiss political parties.
Around 100, 000 people have used Paper.li since Swiss-start-up Small River launched it last spring, and around 1, 000 papers are being created each day.
In the valleys of what is now the Swiss canton of Valais, small groups of farmers left their villages and set off east across the mountain passes in search of new lands.
Another competitor, virt-x, an electronic market based in London that deals mainly in the shares of big Swiss companies, has shown that small can be competitive.
Credit Suisse points out that it has obligations under Swiss law, and those are not small.
Over a four-year period, Swiss trader Glencore helped Gutseriev buy a number of small Russian oil firms, which he united into Russneft.
And Swiss Telecom just took a 20% share in a small private Malaysian mobile operator, Mutiara.
The Swiss firm Logitech(13, LOGI) is a small but leading company in PC peripherals like mice, trackballs, keyboards, Web cams, headsets and network music systems--with particular clout in cordless devices.
There are actually brave souls around the world who build and fly their own jetpacks, most notably Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot who created a flying wing powered by four small turbofan engines.
The developers also are renovating three small historic buildings from the 1930s on the site that were designed by Swiss architect William Lescaze where Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and Bob Dylan recorded shows and songs.
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The fraud he masterminded was remarkable for its scale, longevity and the sophistication of its victims: hedge-fund founders, Swiss banks and movie moguls, as well as charities and small investors, some of whom put in their life savings.
He's the other Swiss tennis pro, the one with a career-high ranking of No. 9, three small titles (in Umag, Casablanca and Chennai, not Paris, London and New York), and two Grand Slam quarterfinals.
Research by Swiss Re on the American industry, for instance, shows that when large insurers grow huge, or small ones medium-sized, they become less, not more, efficient.
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