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  • Location promotion brings over 700 new jobs in the first year

    Location promotion brings over 700 new jobs in the first year

    The establishment of a total of 231 international companies in 2024 supported by the location promoters strengthens Switzerland as a location for innovation, according to the Conference of Cantonal Economic Directorates and Switzerland Global Enterprise, the national Swiss export and location promotion organization, in their press release. The committee particularly emphasizes that around two thirds of these companies are active in the five key technologies of healthcare, digital, automation, food and finance. They were defined by the federal government, cantons and regions in their joint strategy for the years 2024 to 2027 as particularly worthy of support.

    According to the press release, this strategy has brought the promotional activities of all stakeholders even closer together. Switzerland benefits from the fact that the various competencies of the promotion partners complement and reinforce each other.

    In the first year of operation, these 231 newly established companies in Switzerland created 716 new jobs. According to the information provided, they plan to create a total of 2135 jobs over the next three years.

    Around half of these companies come from the USA, Germany, France and the UK. As Cantonal Councillor Walter Schönholzer, Director of Economic Affairs of the Canton of Thurgau and Co-President of the steering body for national location promotion, emphasizes, the companies located here “also contribute to cross-cantonal value creation and to strengthening the local SME landscape with their innovative know-how and broad network”.

  • Zurich economic region records 89 new companies

    Zurich economic region records 89 new companies

    The Greater Zurich Area AG and its partners attracted a total of 89 companies to the Zurich economic region last year. Compared to the previous year, the number of companies relocating to the region was 20 lower, Greater Zurich Area AG reported in a press release. “Last year was dominated by geopolitical uncertainties, inflation and a general mood of crisis, which had a direct impact on investment activity,” said Sonja Wollkopf Walt, Managing Director of the location marketing organization. “Despite a decline in the number of companies moving here, we are cautiously optimistic about the future.”

    The jobs created by the new companies in the first year also fell short of the previous year’s figure due to the lower number of new companies settling here. However, 1463 new jobs are to be created over the next five years, an increase of 13% compared to the plans of the companies settling in 2022. In addition, 62 percent of the companies relocating in 2023 are active in the focus industries defined by Greater Zurich Area AG. Almost three in ten of the new companies planning to relocate to the Greater Zurich Area.

    The location marketing organization highlights the establishment of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Zurich as one of the highlights of 2023. According to the press release, this flagship project is primarily due to the activities of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in the field of artificial intelligence. It describes the reporting year as a “year of breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence technology”.