On 2nd August in China, our CEO Zhen Xiao had the honour of meeting in person and for the first time the Swiss Consul General in Shanghai, Sacha Bachmann, who took over from Olivier ZEHNDER in the summer of 2022. Consul General Bachmann was previously posted to Chicago, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Berne. 🤝First and foremost, it was…

Dear Swiss Centers Members, Partners and Friends, While we embrace the hot summertime, Swiss Centers warmly welcome 6 new member companies who joined our cluster in 2023, namely Contexa, Wonder Pet Concept, SwissOxx, Virtuarch, Bartholet Maschinenbau, and Swatch Group, as well as NGL Group who renewed its membership at Swiss Centers. Among them, some are veterans with decades of experience of doing business in…

Dear Members, Partners and Friends, We are delighted to invite you to a week of (re)discovery of Switzerland’s 3rd most important trading partner since 2010: China. Despite being a key market for numerous Swiss companies active in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, precision instruments, watches, machinery or electronics, China remains paradoxically little-known. As its borders have remained almost…

Swiss companies in China: post-Covid confidence boost The Swiss business community in China has regained its confidence: In the recent “Swiss Business in China” survey, 62% of respondents expect higher or substantially higher profits in 2023 compared to 2022. The confidence level, at 7.2 out of 10, is not only significantly higher than in 2022,…

When Shanghai settles for an afternoon in Switzerland, here is the result! On Tuesday, May 9th, we organized an Exclusive Business Meeting between the Director of its Free Trade Zone (FTZ), accompanied by a large delegation, and nearly 60 businessmen and women working for companies of all sizes and active in multiple fields, already established…