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Agriculture companies of Switzerland (2 C, 5 P) F. ... Pages in category "Agricultural organisations based in Switzerland" The following 7 pages are in this category ...
Transnational consumer goods conglomerate and the largest food and beverage company in the world. The firm has more than 8,000 brands, including Gerber, Carnation, and Lean Cuisine. 112 Zurich Insurance Group: $67,245 52,473 Zürich-based full line insurance and financial services company operating in more than 170 countries. 169 Hoffmann-La Roche
Dairy products companies of Switzerland (1 C, 7 P) F. ... Pages in category "Agriculture companies of Switzerland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of ...
Switzerland has a large economy and highly skilled labor force. Fifteen Swiss companies are included on Fortune's "Global 500" list (in 2011). As of 2018 the largest non-financial companies in terms of annual revenue were Glencore, Vitol and Trafigura, with Nestlé as the largest employer.
Agriculture in Switzerland, one of the economic sectors of the country, has developed since the 6th millennium BC and was the principal activity and first source of income until the 19th century. Framework of rural society, agriculture has as main factors the natural conditions (climate), the demographic evolution and agrarian structures ...
The Swiss Farmers' Union (SFU; until 2013 Schweizerischer Bauernverband; French: Union Suisse des Paysans (USP), Italian: Unione Svizzera dei Contadini (USC), Romansh: Uniun Purila Svizra (UPS) represents the interests of the farming community in Switzerland as an umbrella organization and is considered one of the most influential organizations in the country.
The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) [a] is Switzerland's competence centre for agricultural issues, responsible for agricultural policy and for direct payments to Swiss farmers. [1] It is also responsible for Agroscope , the Swiss Confederation's center of excellence for agricultural research .
Fenaco is an agricultural cooperative federation in Switzerland, headquartered in Bern. Fenaco is an acronym of its French name fédération nationale des coopératives agricoles . Members of the federation are 165 agricultural cooperatives trading under the name Landi as well as some others.