{"id":100002458,"date":"2023-07-01T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissholdings.ch\/en\/?page_id=100002458"},"modified":"2024-06-26T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:19:09","slug":"swissholdings-about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swissholdings.ch\/en\/swissholdings-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"SwissHoldings \u2013 About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our association
\n<\/strong>Founded in 1942 as Industrie Holding, SwissHoldings is a cross-sector business federation with the legal form of a Verein<\/em> (association). It currently encompasses 65 multinational companies<\/a> in the industrial and service fields (not including the finance and insurance sectors) that are registered in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Our members
\n<\/strong>Our member companies are distinguished by their strong commitment to international activities in the form of direct investments (subsidiaries and branches) and their great significance to Switzerland as an economic center. At the end of 2022, the book value of their foreign capital stock was around CHF 460 billion, or 35% of Switzerland\u2019s foreign direct investment. Throughout the world, they employ approx. 1.8 million people, almost 200’000 of them in Switzerland. Our member companies are also major issuers on the capital market, representing (as of March 2024) around 62% of Switzerland\u2019s entire market capitalization. Our member companies are also among the leading providers of goods, services and technologies both domestically and internationally (see also SwissHoldings Facts & Figures 2024<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Our areas of activity
\n<\/strong>SwissHoldings is committed to securing optimal framework conditions and a liberal environment for multinational companies registered in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Our association is primarily engaged in the following three areas<\/a>:<\/p>\n