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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.

St.Gallen/Lausanne/Bern - With the Monitoring Consumption Switzerland project, researchers at the University of St.Gallen have analyzed Swiss consumer behavior. Black Friday week saw the highest retail sales of the year, they found. On Friday itself, sales were down slightly compared to 2024. The Enterprise for Society Center and Novalytica supported the project.