What Switzerland city is the company, which sponsored the 2007 Sydney to Hobart Yacht race, headquartered?
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2007 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race The 2007 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex, was the 63rd annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. As in past editions of the race, it was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales. As with previous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races, the 2007 edition began on Sydney Harbour, at Noon on Boxing Day (26 December 2007), before heading south for 630 nautical miles (1,170 km) through the Tasman Sea, past Bass Strait, into Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Rolex Rolex SA ( ) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company and its subsidiary Montres Tudor SA design, manufacture, distribute and service wristwatches sold under the Rolex and Tudor brands. Founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in London, England in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis, Rolex moved its base of operations to Geneva, Switzerland in 1919.
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Royal Boskalis Westminster Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. is a Netherlands-based company that provides services relating to the construction and maintenance of maritime infrastructure on an international basis. The company has one of the world's largest dredging fleets.
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Swiss Propulsion Laboratory The Swiss Propulsion Laboratory (SPL) is a rocket laboratory that runs integrated programs focusing on research and development of space-technology. It is located in Langenthal, Switzerland and was founded in 1998. The company develops, builds and runs rocket systems that transport small payloads into low Earth orbit (LEO). The company works and coordinates with external facilities and other organizations such as universities, graduate schools and Switzerland's precision industry. It is a partner of the White Label Space team, which is currently competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE.
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Allseas Allseas Group S.A. is a Swiss-based offshore contractor specialising in pipelay, heavy lift and subsea construction. The company, founded in 1985 by owner and president Edward Heerema, employs 3,000 people and operates worldwide.
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Swiss Solidarity Swiss Solidarity is a Swiss nonprofit organization for charitable, social, and humanitarian aid campaigns.
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Baumann &amp; Cie, Banquiers Baumann & Cie, Banquiers, headquartered in Basel, is a Swiss private bank specializing in wealth management and investment advisory.
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Watson Systems Watson Systems AG, established in Switzerland, produces "talking" shopping carts. The company developed and produced a worldwide database- and Internet-based audio advertising system for supermarkets and shopping centres.
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Intershop Communications AG Intershop Communications AG is a company providing omni-channel E-Commerce solutions to large-sized companies worldwide. The company is headquartered in Jena (Thuringia) in Jentower, former Intershop Tower. It has offices in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, San Francisco (U.S.), Melbourne (Australia), and Hong Kong (Asia) as well. Main product of Intershop is the e-commerce solution Intershop Commerce Suite.
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Bauhaus (company) Bauhaus is a Swiss-headquartered pan-European retail chain offering products for home improvement, gardening and workshop. The name contains the German words "bauen" (to build) and "Haus" (house), but also alludes to the modernist Bauhaus school and the company's founder and owner, the German billionaire Heinz-Georg Baus.
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Merchant Marine of Switzerland The Merchant Marine of Switzerland is the largest merchant navy of a landlocked country. Somewhat unusual for a landlocked country, Switzerland has a long tradition of civilian navigation, both on its lakes and rivers, and on the high seas.
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2016 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race The 2016 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex, was the 72nd annual running of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales. It began on Sydney Harbour, at 1pm on Boxing Day (26 December 2016), before heading south for 630 nautical miles (1,170 km) through the Tasman Sea, Bass Strait, Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Alpiq Alpiq is a leading energy company in Switzerland and the largest energy service provider with focus on European markets. The company operates mainly in Switzerland, but it also has power stations in Italy, France, Norway, Hungary and the Czech Republic and building new ones in Germany, Italy, France, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The group was established in 2009 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland after the merger of two Swiss energy companies Aare-Tessin Ltd. for Electricity (Atel) and Energie Ouest Suisse (EOS).
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Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik AG is a Swiss manufacturer of specialist road building and railway equipment. The company is based at Bowil in the canton of Bern.
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Viessmann The Viessmann Group is an international heating systems manufacturer headquartered in Allendorf (Eder), Germany. The group controls 27 production and project management divisions in 11 countries, its products are available in 74 countries, owns 32 subsidiaries and 120 sales offices around the world. Viessmann is a major winter sport and motorsport sponsor.
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Ringier Ringier AG is an internationally active media group in Switzerland, with an integrated and diversified value creation chain. Founded in 1833 in Zofingen and based in Zürich. The current strategy is based not only on media but also on e-commerce and entertainment. It has a yearly income of approximately 940 million CHF and over 6,500 employees in sixteen countries.
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Austal Austal is an Australian-based global ship building company and defence prime contractor that specialises in the design, construction and support of defence and commercial vessels. Austal's product range includes naval vessels, high-speed passenger and vehicle ferries and specialist utility vessels such as offshore windfarm and crew transfer vessels.
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Swiss Association for Standardization The Swiss Association for Standardization or "Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung" (SNV), French: "Association Suisse de Normalisation", is in charge of Switzerland's international cooperation and acceptance in the field of standardization. It is a founder member of both ISO and CEN.
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Nestlé Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It has been the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics, for 2014, 2015, and 2016. It ranked No. 72 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2014 and No. 33 on the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies.
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SEA Group SEA Group ("Italian – Societa' Europea Autocaravan; pronounced "sayer"") is an Italian headquartered motorcaravan manufacturer, based in Trivolzio, Lombardy.
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Motorex Motorex is a Swiss oil blending and manufacturing company located in Langenthal, Switzerland. It is currently the largest oil blending and manufacturing company in Switzerland and ships to over 75 countries. Motorex is owned by the Bucher AG Group which also holds two more affiliate companies namely Motorex-Toptech and the Bucher AG Langenthal. All three of these companies operate out of the main facility in Langenthal. There is also a separate location of storage-holding tanks on the other side of the city.
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Strabag Strabag SE is a European construction company based in Villach, Austria, with its headquarters in Vienna. It is the largest construction company in Austria and one of the largest construction companies in Europe. The company is active in its home markets Austria and Germany and in all countries of Eastern and South-East Europe, in selected markets in Western Europe, on the Arabian Peninsula, as well as in Canada, Chile, China and India. In these markets STRABAG has subsidiaries or operates on a project-basis.