Zurich News

Zurich News.

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  Investing in Women

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:12 PM ET

  Well, it probably is. But at one investment firm, they’re placing their bets on an even more valuable commodity.The New York Times reports that Zurich’s Naissance Capital will launch a Women’s Leadership Fund in January. The fund will invest in companies with women on the board and wil Read More

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  Bagging it for the environment and er ... art?

  By Kendall Hunter | Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:20 PM ET

  are made from second-hand tarpaulin from European freight trucks. And as if that isn't eco-edgy enough, the Freitag factory/office building in Zurich is made entirely of old shipping containers.Recycling is in the Freitag family fabric and the entrepreneurial brothers admit they were taugh Read More

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