Swiss founded startup NaturalCycle, which has been testing its contraception app in the Nordics since last December has now opened it up to the U.K. market, making its first move to scale the subscription service which aims to offer women an alternative to hormone based contraception methods such as the pill.
The area was the site of a Shawnee and Delaware Indian village before Joseph Johns, a Swiss Mennonite, founded the town in 1800.
Swiss Re, founded 144 years ago, makes most of its money from premium income generated by taking on some property and casualty risks for direct insurers.
Representatives for Wegelin & Company, a Swiss bank founded in 1741, appeared in Federal District Court in Manhattan and acknowledged that for nearly a decade the firm helped dozens of wealthy American customers dodge taxes by hiding more than $1.2 billion in secret accounts.
The museum, itself designed by -- who else? -- Frank O. Gehry, is a nonprofit offspring of Vitra, the Swiss company founded in 1934 that specializes in manufacturing office furniture, particularly that of the Eameses and George Nelson.
It got a taste of the international life in 1975 when it swallowed Soder AG, a Swiss company founded in 1900 as a manufacturer of mills for the food industry.
He was the first of more than 180 Britons to be assisted to die at Dignitas, a Swiss organisation founded in 1998 which helps people with terminal and incurable illnesses to end their own lives.
Just under two hours north of Melbourne, the Swiss-Italian founded town of Daylesford (often affectionately known as Gaylesford) is an oasis of crystal-clear springs, beautiful lakes, massage and healing retreats, and a surprisingly cosmopolitan main street with Melbourne-quality coffee.
Joseph Mueller, a Swiss manufacturing heir, founded the collection in the 1920s, while also focusing on Modern paintings and antiquities.
