Club schools and culture

Article Abstract:

The Swiss supermarket chain Migros is unique in several respects. It operates language schools, publishes community newspapers and supports cultural activities. It also maintains 50 Club schools that provide the chain's customers with the opportunity to enroll in over 300 courses. Migros also funds art scholarships and worthy social projects. Founded by Gottlieb and Adele Duttweiler, the Migros chain is a network of regional cooperatives that adhere closely to its founders' belief that they should actively participate in the upliftment of the communities they serve.

Strategy & planning, Switzerland, Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores, Grocery stores, Supermarkets, EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, Education of Adults, Services, Adult education, Community life, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, Language schools

---

The Geneva Conventions and other anniversaries

Article Abstract:

The International Committee of Red Cross, the National Red Cross and Red Crescent celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the four Geneva Conventions in 1999. The event is marked by an international conference by the three arms of the movement and a public awareness campaign called 'People On War' Project. The conference aims to formulate stronger national laws to protect the emblems of the Red Cross and Red Crescent while the campaign aims to raise people's awareness of the Geneva Conventions so as to implement them better.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

---

Poets, ghosts and souvenirs

Article Abstract:

Christie's held an auction at the Villa Diodati in Cologny, Switzerland, in Sept. 1996. The event was well attended mainly because of the villa's notorious past. It was where poet Percy Bysshe Shelley spent the summer of 1816 with his mistress Mary Godwin and fellow poet Lord Byron. Seven hundred items were sold at the auction, including paintings, tapestries, furniture, books, porcelain and artefacts from the villa itself.

Auctions, Homes and haunts, Shelley, Mary, Byron, George Gordon Noel, Baron, Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: The good, the bad and the ugly. The attractions of a trade sale. No place for off-the-shelf solutions
• Abstracts: The evolution of a new business culture. Competition's fierce on the Nordic front
• Abstracts: Choosing regulatory options when environmental costs are uncertain. On the impact of infrequent trading on the APT systematic risk components - evidence from a thin security market
• Abstracts: The National Lottery. The National Lottery survey
• Abstracts: Complex dynamics and control of arms race. Student t-tests and compound tests to detect transients in simulated time series

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.