I know that the swiss army knife comes from Switzerland and that velcro was invented by a Swiss man and that Rolex is a swiss watch company and a few others, but i need more ideas and ive looked around and its really hard to find anymore. Im doing a project for school and i need to come up with as many things as possible so if you can help that would be great. :)
2007-05-16 06:08:08 · 6 answers · asked by luvable6891 1 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Other - Europe
Chocolate, cheese (gruyere, emmental, tiltis, tete de moine).
Swatch is also a swiss company.
the pencils "caran d'ache" are produced in switzerland.
2007-05-16 09:45:53 · answer #1 · answered by laura c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work for a Swiss company so I constantly hear stuff about Switzerland.
Chocolate (Nestle and many others) and pharmaceuticals (Novartis and Roche among others) are the main exports from Switzerland. Also there are a lot of huge financial services companies such as UBS, Credit Suisse, and Swiss Re.
You might want to start with the Wikipedia article on Switzerland that has some good information.
2007-05-16 06:22:58 · answer #2 · answered by Andy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually you will find Swiss products in any car and most machinery today!
There are really many relatively small Swiss companies producing really specialised niche products in extraordinary quality.
Example: The company "Maxon" delivered the electromotor for the Mars exploration vehicle. Their core business are extremely reliable electromotors for several usage.
Of course there are other watch brands as well, makers of snowboards, microbikes and many "in" products.
Listing some examples as links...
2007-05-16 07:03:27 · answer #3 · answered by swissnick 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Emmentaler Cheese (The original Swiss cheese). Swiss chocolate.
2007-05-16 06:21:02 · answer #4 · answered by James W. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really, really good chocolate!
2007-05-16 06:15:20 · answer #5 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mostly watches and toblerone, that's chocolate
2007-05-16 06:19:33 · answer #6 · answered by kris 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋