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Wattwil - The Swiss umbrella organization for business succession has presented the Phoenix Award 2025 to Heberlein Technology AG from the canton of St.Gallen. With this award, the organization honors Swiss SMEs that have successfully mastered their succession for at least a century.

St.Gallen - With effect from January 1, 2026, the Debrunner Koenig Group is taking over the operation of Locher Bewehrungen AG and in so doing will seek to expand its service and product portfolio for builders and engineers. In particular, customers in Eastern Switzerland will benefit from the takeover of the St.Gallen-based Locher Bewehrungen.

St.Gallen - A total of eight DeepTech start-ups have had the chance to present their business models during the first HSG START Accelerator Demo Day. The aim of this program launched by the University of St.Gallen, the START Foundation and Switzerland Innovation Park East is to support young companies on their professionalization journeys.

Frick/Widnau/Zurich - OPENLY, from Widnau in the Swiss canton of St.Gallen, has issued the first CO2 certificates for carbon sinks in buildings and registered them in the Global C-Sink Registry operated by Carbon Standards International (CSI). It worked in partnership with myclimate. The underlying Global Construction C-Sink Standard had been developed by CSI.