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...dollars. The companies call the suits "baseless" and will fight to dismiss them. "You can't hold international investors responsible for the actions of governments," says Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for Zurich-based bank UBS Group, named in both suits. But South African activists point to successful cases against Swiss banks that held onto money deposited by Holocaust victims, and companies in Nazi Germany that benefitted from forced labor. "If they want to play the international game," says Neville Gabriel of Jubilee South Africa, which backs the latest claim, "then they must play by international rules." COPYRIGHT The Walls Have...
...margin of up to 40%, higher than most luxury products. Louis Vuitton led the pack with the $6,600 LV Cup Watch. Each watch contains 277 parts, and only 277 watches were made. Prada teamed up with IWC to produce 2,000 of the $4,400 GST Chrono-Automatic. Swiss horologists Omega brought out 10,007 of the $1,900 James Bond 007 to coincide with the latest Bond flick. And Zenith reintroduced their Grande Class Star line, making only 500, at $13,492 apiece. Rarer still is the $420,000 Genghis Khan by Ulysse Nardin: only 30 have ever...
Fourteen of 22 Bulldogs are internationals, including seven Canadians, three Finns, two Swedes, a Russian and a Swiss. Six Duluth players are Olympians...
This weekend, however, Harvard will have to contend with tough goaltending, particularly against Duluth in senior Patricia Sautter, a member of the Swiss national team...
...they're "looking into" any similarity. But the company is famous for defending its trademarks; while Mecca-Cola says its targets are elsewhere, Coke's lawyers might already be seeing red. THE BOURSE All Fall Down Just when you think the apocalypse at Switzerland's largest life insurer, Swiss Life, must be complete, in swoops another horseman. Last week CEO Roland Chlapowski became the second top executive to be ousted in nine months; the next day board chairman Andres Leuenberger resigned. The 145-year-old company's share price has plunged 80% this year, and investors have turned their wrath...